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offspring ! Our efforts to do the impossible are 

 killing us. These beings Nature in her grand role 

 cuts off the earliest. She puts them out of their 

 misery generally before the mental powers have 

 reached a condition to appreciate misery. We, in 

 our egotism, believing Nature to be a fool, are making 

 war on Nature at every step. But Nature calmly 

 looks on and seems to smile at our futile efforts, 

 and when questioned by the earnest student distinctly 

 responds and tells this bitter tale : " Go ON FIGHTING 



MY GRAND NATURAL LAWS, AND JUST AS YOU FIGHT 

 THEM, SO YOU ADD TO YOUR OWN DISTRESS, PAIN, 

 DISEASE, AND UTTER WRETCHEDNESS, UNTIL YOUR 

 DEPLORABLE CONDITION TEACHES YOU KNOWLEDGE." 



What manner of man is there amongst us, who, 

 sowing weeds with his wheat, would complain that 

 the weeds choked the wheat when the plants grew ? 

 And this Ave are doing. We are sowing the diseased, 

 the weak and degenerated amongst the strong. We 

 are nursing the diseased ones and then complain of 

 our miserable existence and find that life is not 

 worth living. The oppression is terrible and is in- 

 creasing, and this is all because men refuse to look 

 at the natural laws, and the priests lead the van. 

 Society is framed upon one huge lie. It is the 

 religious lie. We live in eternity, we regenerate. 1 



1 The old idea of the human resurrection cannot for a moment be 

 upheld in view of the facts revealed by science. It supposed that 

 after death the spirit would assume the form of the departed, so that 

 it could be recognized, and thus spirit could see spirit and obtain an 

 eternal reunion of sensations. And this resumption of spiritual form 

 was generally considered to be that of the last phase of life. 



Let us consider the following parables : A certain beautiful mother 

 died leaving a young daughter, also very beautiful, and she was 



