CREATION AND FALL. 



The one great differential mark between man and the brutes is his 

 higher development of brain power, by which he is enabled to discrim- 

 inate between right and wrong, or good and evil, and thus to improve 

 his bodily and social condition. The individual who obstinately refuses 

 to avail himself of the great mental power within him not only deprives 

 himself of the greatest pleasure in life, but also allows himself to sink 

 to the level of the brutes from which he evolved, exhibiting at the 

 same time a gross want of gratitude to the being who endowed him 

 with so lofty an attribute. On the other hand, he who cultivates his 

 mental faculties, and uses them for his own improvement and advance- 

 ment, and also that of his fellows, fulfils the highest mission of man, 

 and continually shows his deep gratitude to his mysterious benefactor. 

 ^] To think is the grandest faculty of- man. To think logically and 

 well ought to be his noblest aspiration. To prevent, -by dnj nii^iiA 



individual from exercising his Wjt^to think, and from 

 expression to his thoughts, is a direct -eutrdgE upon the giudl 

 author of iiff all, np^p tb Q individual himself, and also upon the whole 

 human race.^ The greatest thinker of modern times, John Stuart Mill, 

 says, " The peculiar evil of silencing the expression .of an opinion is 

 that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing 

 generation ; those who dissent from the opinion still more than those 

 who hold it. If the opinion is right they are deprived of the oppor- 

 tunity of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose what is 



