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good or for evil, the body that goes back to the earth. 

 I don't care how larned a man may be ; he may talk 

 wisel}^, and knowingly, about the sciences, he may 

 confound me by a thousand things I don't and can't un» 

 derstand, but when he denies the existence of a great 

 Power that created the sun, moon and stars, the earth 

 and the countless hosts of things that swarm upon its 

 surface, and swim in its waters, who denies the exist- 

 ence of a soul, and of an hereafter, who says there is no 

 Heaven, and that the grave is the final end, I set him 

 down as one who has something wrong in his upper 

 works. He ain't a wise man. He don't reason like a 

 sensible man, and I'm agin him. 



'' I mind once, I was out for a good many days, in 

 the woods, with such an infidel man from Boston. He 

 had all the signs of a gentleman about him, and didn't 

 seem to have any ill will agin any living thing, yet as 

 sure as I'm in this boat, I was afraid of him. To hear 

 him talk, made me kind 'er creep all over. He seemed 

 to take pleasure in denyin', and lafS.n at the idea of 

 there being any great Creator, or any soul, or and 

 eternity. I felt scary in his company, and many's the 

 time I've got him, under one pretence or another, to 

 go before me, for fear he'd take a notion to shoot 



