MAN'S PLACE. 



able thing in nature being made as an accessory to his 

 personal welfare. And being a secondary considera- 

 tion with regard to himself. Such mode of reasoning 

 can well be attributed to the order of reasoner, who 

 grants to the sun powers off in the distance, diametri- 

 cally opposite to the powers manifest at his finger tips 

 from birth until death, throughout thousands of years 

 of the coming and shifting of his kind. Always look- 

 ing off in the distance for a solution of problems writ- 

 ten in indelible characters on his body or on everything 

 his digits touch. Looking off into space trying to 

 make eligible, characters written by some unseen hand, 

 of like resemblance to the one he is carrying. Seeking 

 revelations from the mists of buried ignorance in the 

 form of imaginative beings which have no existence 

 beyond the diseased condition of a brain born of thou- 

 sands of years of superstition. 



There is no power in the buried ego other than 

 the stench arising above the remains of last resting 

 place, until final disintegration of the particles, which 

 then may be transformed into some useful means of 

 further force tending to carry on the good cause of 

 worldly conservation. 



The saying attributed to the great Confucius is 

 very true when you come to know r nature's law. The 

 saying follows: "What the superior man seeks is in 

 himself; what the small man seeks is in others." Now 

 when you know the law of nature or your maker you 

 are quite convinced that the white man is forcing ig- 

 norance on the wise Chinese when he attempts to con- 



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