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health, reputation and wealth ; yet, the lesson of experience, taught 

 to one generation, have failed to affect the next, and the mania still 

 prevails in all its force. It was this mania — this influence of Two- 

 lips, that lost Adam his possession of earthly immortality, and 

 expelled him from Eden ; and the strong desire for the possession 

 of Twolips has left its memorials upon almost every page of past 

 history ; some, brilliant with heroic deeds of physical strength and 

 mental powers, and others tarnished with vulgar aims and 

 unhallowed measures. In truth, this mania, so prevalent and so 

 controlling, may he considered an important part of human organism ; 

 and an analysis will clearly demonstrate that almost every achieve- 

 ment recorded by the historian, had its incipient germ, if not its 

 budding flower and full ripe fruit, formed and fostered by a passion 

 for Twolips. Speculate as we may upon the autocracy of Despots — 

 the strong governmental arm of Generals — the will of Republican 

 majorities — or the more quiet, yet equally potent sway of a priest- 

 hood : — regard them as we may, as the tangible instruments in the 

 government of the race — or the rulers upon the thrones of Empires — 

 we are forced to acknowledge that there is a " power behind the 

 throne, greater than the throne itself* and that power is blooming 



Twolips THE WORLD IS GOVERNED BY TWOLIPS. 



