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his child, or, put with other forced contributions, the total may- 

 take his daughter to Europe for a pleasure-trip. 



Here is one of our great captains of industry, assisted by ac- 

 cumulated capital and corporate franchises as well as the ability 

 which makes him a captain of industry, competing in the indus- 

 trial arena for the necessaries and good things of life with a frail 

 girl who has only a one-girl power to depend on, and of the two 

 he it is we find asking government aid, and aid to do what ? Why, 

 to take away to himself all his own and a part as well of the poor 

 girl's earnings. 



This in what ought to be the manliest country in the world, on 

 the part of that section of our manhood best fitted by nature for 

 the financial struggle for bread, and aimed by these financial 

 giants at the weakest section of the community. "We may talk 

 about the ferocity of the Northmen tossing up babies and catch- 

 ing them on their spears, or about atrocities practiced in Russia 

 to-day ; we may imagine a Sullivan calling for steel knuckles with 

 which to encounter a seven-year-old boy ; but we can not believe 

 that American manhood will not some time rise above the unpar- 

 alleled meanness of the protective tariff. 



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ISRAELITE AND INDIAN: A PARALLEL IN PLANES 



OF CULTURE.* 



By GAEEICK MALLEEY. 

 II. 



PARALLEL MYTHS. The early religious opinions and prac- 

 tices of all peoples appear in myth and by myths are ex- 

 plained. When a religion has endured among a people for a long 

 time after the use of writing has become general, its myths are 

 collected and collated and formed into a system. This system 

 generates dogmas which require support from glosses on the text 

 of the original myths ; indeed, these texts are often buried under 

 a mass of homilies and predications, or, when still used in their 

 purity, are interpreted ad libitum. Such is the history of the 

 myths and the religion of Israel. 



The Indians have myths and legends which explain their re- 

 ligious opinions and practices ; but, as they did not acquire the art 

 of writing, they did not formulate articles of faith. Their beliefs 

 must be ascertained, therefore, by the collection and study of the 

 myths themselves as now reduced to writing and translated. The 



* Address of the Vice-President of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Section H, Anthropology, delivered at the Toronto meeting, August, 1889. 



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