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tant issues. We are generally Protestants, 
Catholics, Mohammedans, Confucians, Mon¬ 
archists, democrats or republicans, according 
to whether we happened to be born and reared 
in Spain, Turkey, China, Mississippi or Ver¬ 
mont. 
An old English Philosopher says: “Men 
have always thought and believed in masses. 
Throughout the whole earth you may observe 
opinions and ideas, like swarms of bees, clus¬ 
tering together upon particular spots, or as if, 
like certain trees and plants, they were indigen¬ 
ous to the soil.” Another writer says, “Men 
think in packs as jackals hunt.” 
A young minister exclaims: “There is a 
gulf between man and the inferior animals 
which no amount of sophistry, alias science, 
can ever bridge. There is more than a missing- 
link—a thousand links. Man differs from ani¬ 
mals in mental faculties. Lower animals can¬ 
not originate an idea. ... If man was evolved 
from a beast, where did he get his soul? You 
cannot say it evolved, too. There was a definite 
hour when man, possessing an immortal spirit, 
walked this earth, or else man is yet a beast. 
“If the soul was slowly evolved, and if that 
long-tailed monkey who squatted upon the 
lower branches of your ancestral tree had a 
piece of a soul, and you should meet that poor 
little piece of a soul in the future land of 
spirits, wouldn’t you be ‘sorter’ ashamed on the 
morning after the Resurrection to walk up to 
it and say, ‘Howdy, Grandpa?’ 
“You may boast that your grandfather was 
a monkey, your great-grandfather a bullfrog, 
