302 Instinct, 



ship, Is sure to fall by its own weight, if built high 

 enough, so a false theory is most readily destroyed, 

 by encouraging its upholders to pile upon it every 

 fact they can accumulate. False theories, — those 

 venerable with age, and those glittering with the 

 polish which genius has just given them, — have 

 their worshippers and admirers. 



All these things will right themselves. The 

 generations will die, and the influence of great 

 names is growing less every year. The homes of 

 the great do not stand long in the way of modern 

 progress. I passed along your streets, and saw the 

 crape upon the door, and knew that the great Ora- 

 tor, Statesman, and Scholar slept in the hom^ he 

 had hallowed by his presence, — a home that in 

 other days might have become a shrine. I passed 

 that way again. The home had vanished. Mass- 

 ive walls of stone had taken its place, and the " EV- 

 ERETT Block " was echoing with the din of trade. 

 So the opinions of the great men of this age must 

 meet the wants of the age, or they cannot stand. 

 The theories that charm the crowd, will stand only 

 as they represent the truth. For it is with truth 

 that men will build to stand. It must be block, 

 and cement, and form. And if man would build 

 for his own wants, and for the world, that which 

 will remain, he must study himself — all his needs — 

 his needs as an animal, as a man, as an individual, 

 as member of society, — and as a worshipper of the 

 Invisible. When all the members of society under- 

 stand all these things, there will no longer be a re- 

 pression of instincts as wicked. They will be cul- 



