that the new republic of reason had no use 

 for savants. The old conservatism burned 

 the heretic at the stake, banished the Hu- 

 guenot, destroyed the lover of freedom, si- 

 lenced the agitator. Its intolerance gave 

 Cuvier and Agassiz to Switzerland, sent the 

 Le Contes to America, the Jouberts to 

 Holland, and furnished the backbone of 

 the fierce democracy of the Transvaal. 

 While not all agitators are sane, and not all 

 heretics right-minded, yet no nation can 

 spare from its numbers those men who 

 think for themselves and those who act for 

 themselves. It cannot afford to drive away 

 or destroy those who are filled with religious 

 zeal, nor those whose religious zeal takes 

 a form not approved by tradition nor by 

 consent of the masses. All movements 

 toward social and religious reform are signs 

 of individual initiative and individual force. 

 The country which stamps out individual- 

 ity will soon live in the mass alone. 



A French writer has claimed that the de- 

 cay of religious spirit in France is connected 

 with the growth of religious orders of which 

 celibacy is a prominent feature. If religious 



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