The local legal lights gradually lost faith in Magistrate 

 Darwin's peculiar brand of justice he had n't much 

 respect for law, and once when a lawyer cited him the 

 criminal code, he said, "Tut, tut, that was made a 

 hundred years ago!" Then he fined the man five 

 shillings, and paid the -fine himself, when he should 

 have sent him to the workhouse for six months. 



'HE men who have benefited the world 

 most, have, almost without exception, 

 been looked down upon and depreciated 

 by the priestly class. That is to say, the 

 men upon whose tombs society now 

 carves the word Savior, were outcasts 

 and criminals in their day. 



In a society where the priest is regarded as the mouth- 

 piece of divinity and therefore the highest type of 

 man the artist, the inventor, the discoverer, the gen- 

 ius the man of truth has always been regarded as a 

 criminal. Society advances as it doubts the priest, dis- 

 trusts his oracles, and loses faith in his institution. 

 In the priest, at first, was deposited all human knowl- 

 edge, and what he did not know he pretended to know. 

 He was the guardian of mind and morals, and the cure* 

 of souls. To question him was to die here and be 

 damned for eternity. 



The problem of civilization has been to get the truth 

 past the preacher to the people he has forever barred 

 and blocked the way, and until he was shorn of his 



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