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all the happiness of each one of them, not the 

 creation of all for the happiness of one. Why 

 should man value himself as more than a small 

 part of the one great unit of creation? And 

 what creature of all that the Lord has taken 

 the pains to make is not essential to the com- 

 pleteness of that unit — the cosmos ? The uni- 

 verse would be incomplete without man; but 

 it would also be incomplete without the small- 

 est transmicroscopic creature that dwells be- 

 yond our conceitful eyes and knowledge. 



From the dust of the earth, from the common 

 elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo 

 sapiens. From the same material he has made 

 every other creature, however noxious and in- 

 significant to us. They are earth-born com- 

 panions and our fellow mortals. The fearfully 

 good, the orthodox, of this laborious patch- 

 work of modern civilization cry "Heresy" on 

 every one whose sympathies reach a single 

 hair's breadth beyond the boundary epider- 

 mis of our own species. Not content with taking 

 all of earth, they also claim the celestial coun- 

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