WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



forgotten until we find that they have be- 

 come voters, and count just the same as 

 ourselves, so that we pay heavily in taxes 

 and in misgovernment for our neglect of 

 their education and due consideration. 

 No person could have appeared more in- 

 significant than the negro Dred Scott, 

 when his case came before the Supreme 

 Court of the United States. But when 

 that court ruled that he should be rated 

 only as a saleable thing, and not as a per- 

 son, the most stable government in the 

 world, whose money market felt no jar 

 when either of three of its beloved presi- 

 dents was murdered that same govern- 

 ment was shaken to its very foundations. 

 History knows that the Dred Scott deci- 

 sion had more immediate effect in bringing 

 on the terrible Civil War which followed 

 it, than did any other one event. 



But men instinctively feel that respon- 

 sibility always circumscribes, if it does not 

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