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instincts which now impel this race to fix its hopes of 

 earthly happiness on city life alone, and associate its 

 dreams of man's perfection, and the highest ENDS of his 

 existence, with anything but a rational culture, by the 

 love and study of the laws of this beautiful world, and 

 the obeying of the divine behest by executing the humble 

 offices of an industrious and real life? 



Can the present tendency to agglomerate in swarms, 

 or accumulate in masses and mobs, be designated by any 

 such agreeable appellations as love of society, associa- 

 tion for mutual refinement and exaltation, or Christian 

 compact for the advancement and more perfect develop- 

 ment of the social instincts of the soul? 



Inspect the present fruit of this wondrous human tree. 

 It is called a composite race, having in it dribblings of 

 all the bloods, but with two varieties of the typical Cau- 

 casian form predominating; namely, the Celtic and Teu- 

 tonic. 



The Celt, in the parlance of the ethnological savant, 

 is said to be polytheistic, monarchical, despotic, sensuous, 

 gregarious, frivolous, excitable, etc. ; while the Teuton 

 is affirmed to be monotheistic, democratic, self-sufficient, 

 solitary, intense in love of freedom, hating aristocracies, 

 castes, and shams. 



Examine this composite fruit (the inhabitants of the 

 United States) of the two tallest branches of the blood- 

 tree, man, and say to which its destiny leans ? 



Its instincts seem to come from below, and struggle 

 to drag it down still lower. 



If the commercial despotism which now holds the 

 world in its grasp will develop warts and wens, cancers 

 and dropsies, on the surface of the planet, in the shape 

 of overcrowded cities, at the expense of the well-being 

 and normal life of the whole race, and persist in catch- 

 ing men, as trout are caught by artificial fancy flies, let 

 it take the responsibility, and answer to the ages for the 

 certain abridgment of the mean duration of human life, 

 and the vitiated and perverted reign of the elements of 

 anarchy and death. 



Why do the highest and lowest meet in city life in 

 infernal fellowship? One class dissipates, flourishes, 



