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In Peace 



destroy those who are filled with re^ 

 ligious zeal, nor those whose religious 

 zeal takes a form not approved by tradi- 

 tion nor by consent of the masses. All 

 movements toward social and religious \ 

 reform are signs of individual initiative ] 

 and individual force. The country \\ 

 which stamps out individuality will soon-^ 

 live in the mass alonj^,^-^"""^ 



A French writer has claimed that the 

 decay of religious spirit in France is 

 connected with the growth of religious 

 orders of which celibacy is a prominent 

 feature. If religious men and women 

 leave no descendants, their own spirit, at 

 least, will fail of inheritance. A people 

 careless of religion inherit this trait from 

 equally careless ancestors. 



Indiscriminate charity has been a 

 fruitful cause of the survival of the 

 unfit. To kill the strong and to feed 

 the weak is to provide for a progeny of 

 weakness. It is a French writer, again, 



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