LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



Six days. Q And then followed explanations of what 

 God did each day. 



Over against the volunteers with a taste for power 

 and a fine cork-screw discrimination there have been 

 at rare intervals men with a desire to know for the 

 sake of knowing. They were not content to accept any 

 man's explanation. The only thing that was satisfying 

 to them was the consciousness that they were in- 

 wardly right. Loyalty to the God within was the guid- 

 ing impulse of their lives. 



In the past, such men have been regarded as eccentric, 

 unreliable and dangerous, and the volunteers have 

 ever warned their congregations against them. 

 Indeed, until a very few years ago they were not al- 

 lowed to express themselves openly. Laws have been 

 passed to suppress them, and dire penalties have been 

 devised for their benefit. Laws against sacrilege, her- 

 esy and blasphemy still ornament our statute books, 

 but these invented crimes that were once punishable 

 by death, are now obsolete, or only exist in rudimen- 

 tary forms and manifest themselves in a refusal to 

 invite the guilty party to our Four-o' Clock. This hot 

 intent to support and uphold the volunteers in their 

 explanations of how the world 'was made, is a univer- 

 sal manifestation of the barbaric state, and is based 

 upon the assumption that God is an infinite George IV. 

 QSix hundred years before Christ, Anaximander, the 

 Greek, taught that animal life was engendered from 

 the earth through the influence of moisture and heat, 

 and that life thus generated gradually evolved into 

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