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natures, whose blood beats high and whose vigorous development 
has been distorted toward crime by a sphere hostile to the true 
expansion of their rich faculties. 
On the day when society shall at last decide to enter the path 
of happy destinies — the day when humanity shall appeal to the 
devotion of its members to attempt the great work of conquering 
its globe — when it shall need the boldest pioneers to drain the 
cholera and the yellow fever from their swamps, and formidable 
auxiliaries to purge the regions of the equator and the poles from 
the monsters which infest them — then you will see, you of to-day, 
then, perhaps already returned to this terraqueous life — you will 
see on what heads fall the crowns decreed to useful labor by the 
gratitude of the people. You will see from what class of individuals, 
from what race of animals will spring those chosen workmen and 
those strong assistants whose combined efforts will have tripled the 
dimensions of man^s domain and decupled his riches. Ah ! I can 
tell you beforehand it is not to the Monthyon laureats, to the lym- 
phatic and virtuous natures that the palms of glory are reserved in 
the gigantic conquests of the future. I^o more false doctrines of 
expiation and renunciation, when the days of harmony shall be come. 
No more false prophets, who speak of a wicked and cruel God — 
when the munificence of the globe, overflowing everywhere for the 
happiness of the creature, shall have proclaimed the clemency and 
generosity of the Creator. 
No more Pharisees and the false moralists to obstruct the 
march of humanity and prolong its infancy by nailing upon the 
cross the confidents of the thought of God ! The world, emanci- 
pated from the tyranny of selfishness and from misery, will scarce 
look back to honor them with the notice of anathemas and sar- 
casms, while the voice of universal gratitude bursts forth, shout- 
ing, Glory to the ardent and vigorous natures whose fists of steel 
have opened for our generations the road of the Promised Land ! 
Glory to the redeemed children of the she wolf, by whom God 
founds the eternal cities ! 
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