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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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