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in the power of the mind has always be- 

 longed to those who held the greatest num- 

 ber of shares of intellectual preferred stock. 

 Such was the exhilarating faith of the 

 Chinese sage who said, "if a man is minded 

 to beat a stone, the stone will have a hole 

 in it," and the telescopic vision of prophets, 

 who saw a time when men would be too wise 

 to keep on with the murderous futility of 

 war. Even that very secular seer, Horace 

 of Sabine villa, reviewing the comparatively 

 meager feats of the mind up to his own 

 time, declared that nothing was difficult to 

 mortals. This faith was still more em- 

 phatically maintained by Christ, who was 

 continually girding at those who imposed 

 any limitation upon the possibilities of the 

 soul a belief whose ground has been 

 strengthened by the history of every genera- 

 tion of the world. Each succeeding year 

 some new victory is won by man in the king- 

 dom of matter or spirit. Dream after dream, 

 the inventor's, the chemist's, the alchemist's, 

 the physician's, the philanthropist's, and the 

 reformer's (each of which may have long 



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