JhE p^f^QERS Of THE iffi^^^fi. 



During the few, brief years of our exist- 

 ence in this wonderful world, we sre repeat- 

 edly indebted to the constant, the resistless 

 and the enlightening advance of Education 

 for some all too fleeting, yet mind-enlarging, 

 glimpses into the profound, the exhaustless 

 and the enchanting book of Knowledge ; that 

 book which, although freely opened unto ev- 

 eryone by the liberal hand of Nature, would 

 have been consumed, annihilated, or at least 

 forever sealed to the curious gaze of priest- 

 ridden Humankind had a bigoted, enslaving 

 and persecuting church possessed the power. 



We must not wholly blame the clergy for 

 this would-be wrong. For, in general, it is 

 unthinking Man who wilfully or stupidly pla- 

 ces himself in the ready way of his own ad- 

 vancement ; who drowns the feeble voices of 

 the gifted few who have something new, in- 



