PREFATORY NOTE 



THIS little book contains the substance 

 of two essays on the same subject, the 

 one originally delivered in StanfordUnive?-- 

 sity in iSgg, and reprinted by the Ameri- 

 can Unitarian Association with the title of 

 ** The Blood of the Nation^' the other read 

 at Philadelphia in I god, at the two hund- 

 redth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin 

 Franklin, with the title, '' The Human 

 Harvest'' This was printed in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, D. s. J. 



Stanford University, California 



