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right to eat each other up even the victims believe it is 

 their inevitable fate, and therefore right 



u So of every crime that ever polluted the nations of 

 earth. The masses were made to look on that state of 

 society, as the best possible state. And when some one, 

 wiser and bolder, some one raised up for that very purpose, 

 stepped out in front to lead the people into a better way, 

 they were opposed, denounced, hunted down, and often 

 put to death. 



"But without such reformers, who were willing to die 

 for the principles which they believed and taught, the 

 world would have sunk into irretrievable degradation. 



"And without such self-sacrificing, fearless reformers 

 to-day, the world would go down, down to the barbarous 

 state. 



"There are influences at work in society all around 

 us, that if not counteracted, uprooted and destroyed, 

 society will inevitably sink to its original state barbarism. 



4 ' The first and greatest work for the reformer is, to 

 hold up the standard of right. Whatever is said to the con- 

 trary, the fact remains, that 'by faith are ye saved.' For, 

 as a man believes, so he acts. And in proportion as a 

 man's belief in the right in regard to a thing weakens, in 

 that proportion his conscience loses power over him. 



"We must, if we would accomplish any good in the 

 world, hold up the standard of truth, and expose the 

 wrong. 



"If men could be made to see, that, to obtain wealth, 

 without giving an equivalent for it, is robbery, then the 

 gigantic evils of our country could and would soon be 

 corrected. 



"But so long as public sentiment winks at and approves 

 anything wrong, that long it will be practiced. 



"Certain forms of gambling are condemned cards, 



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