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tilated, cleanly mansion of wood, brick or stone 

 elevating him to lofty distaste for the red 

 fields of fiendish fray and sickening slaughter, 

 the grim cannibal feast of flesh and blood and 

 the disgusting orgies of sexual obscenity and 

 drunken madness that characterized his earlier 

 ages — insensibly drawing him slowly on to 

 display kindness, sympathy and toleration to- 

 Avards his Brother Man. 



Yes I Education, benificent Power, thou hast 

 produced all of the "Material" whereof we of 

 the earth have cause to be thankful for. And 

 thou wilt produce incrdeibly more than even 

 the most sanguine of us can venture to predict ; 

 besides incalculably ministering towards the 

 true "Spiritual" of Man — not the ghostly, the 

 priestly, the false intangibility of which knaves 

 or fools so glibly presume to prate. For I 

 disbelieve that in the marvellously complex 

 piece of mechanism which we call Man (mov- 

 ed by some unknown Force pervading the 

 Universe of which force electricity and chem- 

 ical action are but a few of the observable ef- 

 fects) resides anything more "Spiritual" than 

 can emanate from this Force : a Force which 

 is manifested in the working of our brains and 

 in the involuntary movements of our bodies. 



