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but one life to live, they are satisfied to live the 

 thing out as they have started on it. 



Enthusiasm, which in an enlightened or ideal 

 race would be devoted to self-improvement, is used 

 by men in weaving excuses for their own inertia 

 or in singing of the infirmities of others. 



But there is a Future. And the creeds and ideals 

 men bow down to to-day will in time to come 

 pass away, and new creeds and ideals will claim 

 their allegiance. Shrines change as the genera- 

 tions come and go, and out of the decomposition 

 of the old comes the new. The time will come 

 when the sentiments of these pages will not be 

 hailed by two or three, and ridiculed or ignored 

 by the rest ; they will represent Public Opinion and 

 Law. 



M. 



CHICAGO, 1905. 



