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must needs be that we should know it thoroughly, who 

 are our friends and who our foes, and by what devices 

 we can play the one against the other. Thus shall the 

 earth bring forth her increase and there be plenty in our 

 barns. Also, if we consider carefully these most mar- 

 velous beings that throng us all about, we shall not be 

 so likely to bemuddle our brains with little home-brewed 

 mysteries, spirits of great men come back to chatter fool- 

 ishness; Adept Brethren in the Himalayas that precipi- 

 tate tea-sets in Ceylon jungles; much-married harridans 

 that cure a cough by declaring that there is no cough, 

 no lungs, no air, no anything but Mind, and apparently 

 very little of that in short, if we are interested in Bugs 

 we shall care not at all for Humbugs. 



THE END. 



