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man, heart to heart, and brain to brain, and every 

 true man offers her the tribute of love and rever- 

 ence, and recognizes that in all the realms of earth 

 and stars there is no being so worthy of love and 

 worship, next to Deity, as the mothers of men. 



They are the saviors of mankind, whose vicarious 

 suffering has brought forth and redeemed the gen- 

 erations of men.. They are the trees of life in God's 

 earthly garden, whose branches, ladened with the 

 fruits of love, have called forth the mysterious blos- 

 soms of being to bloom in the fields of time and 

 people the land of immortal spirits. 



The beginning of civilization was when the mother 

 bid the rude men of the forest and hill to build 

 the needed shelter in grove or cave to protect her 

 and her helpless offspring. And from that simple 

 shelter or thatched-roofed hut has sprung the vine- 

 clad cottage, and the marble palace, and the family 

 roof-tree of every house in every land. It was the 

 mothers of men who filled up the broken ranks of 

 war, and brought peace, and wove garments, and 

 refined and civilized man and taught him the arts 

 and commerce of civilized life. And could the 

 mothers control the destinies of nations, their lov- 

 ing hearts would banish war, and peace would be 

 universal. 



And the most precious heritage of every nation on 

 the green earth is the nobility of its mothers, for 

 without noble mothers, it can have no worthy and 

 manly men. 



All nations should recognize this fact, and instead 

 of giving pensions to those who destroy life, they 

 should give them to those who multiply and re- 

 plenish it, and make a nation worthy of existence 



