LITTLE the Unknown into a quaking coward." (J But envel- 

 JOURNEYS oped in the fog of ignorance every phenomenon of na- 

 ture causes man to quake and tremble he wants to 

 know! Fear prompts him to ask, and Greed greed 

 for power, place and pelf answers. 

 To succeed beyond the average, is to realize a weak- 

 ness in humanity and then bank on it. The priest who 

 pacifies is as natural as the fear he seeks to assuage 

 as natural as man himself. 



So first, man is in bondage to his fear, and this bond- 

 age he exchanges for bondage to a priest. First, he 

 fears the unknown; second, he fears the priest who 

 has power with the unknown. 



Soon the priest becomes a slave to the answers he has 

 conjured forth. He grows to believe what he at first 

 pretended to know. The punishment of every liar is 

 that he eventually believes his lies. The mind of man 

 becomes tinted and subdued to what he works in, like 

 the dyer's hand. 



So we have the formula Man in bondage to fear. 

 Man in bondage to a priest. 

 The priest in bondage to a creed. 



Then the priest and his institution become an integral 

 part and parcel of the state, mixed in all of its affairs. 

 The success of the state seems to lie in holding belief 

 intact and stilling all further questions of the people, 

 transferring all doubts to this Volunteer Class that 

 answers for a consideration. 



Naturally, the man who does not accept the answers 

 is regarded as the enemy of the state that is, the 

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