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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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