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and North Africa. The strength and pride with which it 

 infuses its believers hardens them for a struggle which is 

 lamentable,* and wasteful of human effort. There is absolutely 

 no reason but the inherent perversity of man why the precepts 

 of Christ in the New Testament might not be the basis of all 



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religion, the common denominator, with liberty to each race and 

 tribe to tack on what superfluous adornments they choose. 



Perhaps in this direction the present and future statesmen 

 of Liberia may work out the redemption of their country and 

 their race. 



But it is not only for their fetishistic worship of the Old 

 Testament that one is disposed to criticise these people: it cannot 

 be too often repeated that their ideals hitherto have been those of^ 



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