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Spiritualism plays no part in the great dra- 

 ma of this our life. Indeed, the sole phenom- 

 enon approaching to such is the departure of 

 the life-germ from a perishing frame but to 

 begin anew in another or an allied form. For 

 nothing is lost in the vast economy of Nature : 

 all things suffer but a transient change of form : 

 thus the life germ resident in Man transmitted 

 to his descendants, goes on existing indefinite- 

 ly throughout all Time's infinitude of years ; 

 just as his Thoughts, those Genii children of 

 his prolific brain, continue to live on ages and 

 ages after that transitory organ has moulder- 

 ed away into the dust of the long ago ; and 

 thus, and only thus, is Man immortal : in the 

 transmission of his germ life and in the eter- 

 nal perpetuation of his Original Thought. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, pray excuse this 

 long digression ; I now return to my subject : 

 I was remarking how Education had abated 

 the savage and revolting appetites of Man, how 

 she has fanned the flickering flames of melt- 

 ing mercy and soothing sympathy and sincere 

 Brotherly love — qualities almost wholly want- 

 ing in the eldest of Earth's peoples — how she 

 has dimmed the furious fire in the persecuting 

 eyes of the religious bigot ; Quenched the 



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