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tendencies in national affairs. But this is rarely the case. On the 

 other hand the most unscrupulous apologists and persecutors have been 

 educated men, and the heroes of humanity have come from the common 

 people. This anomaly points to something wrong in the system of 

 education, which should disappear. The increase and teaching of 

 scientific ideas will be the best means of establishing simple and natural 

 rules of life. Nature, and science her interpreter, teach us to be honest 

 and true, and they lead us to the Golden Eule. 







