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They were landmarks on the path of progress, 

 beacons "lighting for us the way to dusty death. " 



(e) That by harnessing the current we should succeed in 

 replenishing our depleted exchequer, without the 

 disquieting reflection that the plundered party 

 would be left "poor indeed." 



(/) That our aspirations did not soar to those inacces- 

 sible heights of unctuous moral rectitude claimed by 

 our CO. and that to call to our assistance the blind 

 forces of nature could not be considered (except by a 

 crank) as an indication of natural depravity, but 

 rather as a sagacious and praiseworthy application 

 of the first law of nature. 



(g) That the U.D.C. having neither a body to be kicked 

 nor a soul to be saved, might, with the strictest 

 propriety, be safely and permanently consigned to 

 perdition in the general interests of science. 



(h) That the distorted mental vision and intellectual 

 obliquity of our unfortunate CO. were melancholy 

 facts in nature which we deeply deplored, and for 

 which we must make due allowance, and that the 

 prayers of this congregation be earnestly desired for 

 his speedy and complete return to sanity. 



" Then quietly to steal we stole, " our CO. having been 

 completely pulverised and reduced to incoherence by the 

 logic of our irrefragable arguments. 



The bricks were removed and an opening made. The 

 current responded with commendable alacrity, and frisked 

 and gambolled to and fro, hugging itself in blissful and 

 ecstatic appreciation of its newly acquired liberty, which 

 was in such marked contrast to its former "cribbed, 

 cabined and confined " condition. Nature's teardrops 



