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Tlie Liberty of tJie Subject. — " If my next-door 

 neighbour chooses to have his drains in such a state 

 as to create a poisonous atmosphere, which I breathe 

 at the risk of typhoid and diphtheria, he restricts my 

 just freedom to live just as much as if he went about 

 with a pistol, tlireatening my life ; if he is to be 

 allowed to let his children go unvaccinated, he might 

 as well be allowed to leave strychnine lozenges about 

 in the way of mine ; and if he brings them up un- 

 taught and untrained to earn their living, he is doing 

 his best to restrict my freedom, by increasing the 

 burden of taxation for the support of gaols and 

 vorkhouses, for which I have to pay." 



The Good of Mankind. — "I take it that the good 

 of mankind means the attainment, by every man, 

 of all the happiness which he can enjoy without 

 dimiriishing the happiness of his fellow-men," 



The Future of Women. — " Women wall find their 

 place, and it will neither be that in which they have 

 been held, nor that to which some of them aspire. 

 Nature's old sahque law \nll not be repealed, and 

 no change of dynasty will be effected." 



The Christian Scriptures. — " Their strength lies in 

 their appeals, not to the reason, but to the ethical 

 sense. I do not say that even the highest bibhcal 

 ideal is exclusive of others or needs no supplement. 

 But I do believe that the human race is not yet, 

 possibly may never be, in a position to dispense 

 with it." 



On Darwin. — " None have fought better, and none 

 have been more fortunate, than Charles Dar\vin. 

 He found a great truth trodden underfoot, reviled 

 by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world ; he hved 

 long enough to see it, chiefly by his ovm efforts. 



