' i UATTOXAL HORSE-SHOEING. 



but is often carried back by indolence, when 

 it discovers that it must join us in the loud 

 battle we are forced to wage all along the line 

 against fierce interests and bitter prejudices. 



\Ve attack with slender array, but unflinch- 

 ing purpose, the gloomy powers of ignorance 

 that are allied to doubt and indifference. 

 These contend under the prestige of a thou- 

 sand years of possession. 



Ignorance and Prejudice are twin giants 

 that renew their life upon each other ; they 

 are as old as chaos, and are invulnerable to 

 the weapons of ordinary warfare. Like the 

 fallen angels, they are 



" Vital in every part, 

 And can but by annihilation die." 



One of the Greek fables, typifying the 

 struggle of man against circumstances, was a 

 story of the battle between Hercules and An- 

 taeus, son of the Earth. The fight was long 

 and doubtful, for whenever the mortal was 

 felled to the ground by the power of the 

 vigorous god, his force was renewed by con- 

 tact with the breast of his mother Earth, and 



