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 WITH SUPPLEMENTARY THOUGHTS 
 AND SUGGESTIONS 
 
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 By WALTER L. SINTON 
 
 A fid ycsf/s cjitered hito the temple 
 of God^ and cast out all them that sold 
 and boiioJit in the temple^ and over- 
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 doves ; andJie saith unto them^ It is 
 zvritten^ My house shall be called a 
 house of prayer ,' but ye make it a 
 den of robbers. — Matt, xxi : I 2. Re- 
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PREFACE. 
 
 Fellow seekers after trulh, for the sole purpose of 
 converting it, when found, into conduct, in presenting 
 -this little book for your perusal and earnest considera- 
 tion, it is my sincere desire that you will not waste time 
 in searching for literary merits, as there are none sought 
 or claimed for it. All that I desire is, that the language 
 may be found so plain, and the construction so simple, 
 that the most ordinary intellects may grasp my meaning, 
 and be utterly unable to twist my utterances to suit 
 themselves. 
 
 The facts contained in the poem Teapot Philosophy 
 were suggested by a Chinese teapot, which I was send- 
 ing to my sister on the occasion of her wedding some ten 
 years ago, as a token of my best wishes for herself and 
 husband. I only intended to w^rite a few lines expres- 
 sing this, but the letter continued to grow as the gravity 
 of the situation, not only for my relatives but also for 
 myself, forced itself upon me. 
 
 One by one the facts and the difficulties inevitably 
 issuing from them sternly and irresistibly presented 
 themselves to me, and I was irresistibly impelled to 
 record them. Several of these facts, and difficulties 
 springing from them, stood out most prominently. These 
 emphatically demanded immediate solution unless I con- 
 cluded that I was insane and living in a world peopled 
 
by demented creatures and surrounded by hallucinations. 
 Of the facts and difficulties which were suggested to me 
 by the pot which contains the "cup that cheers but not 
 inebriates," was first the doubt as to whether language 
 has any definite meaning. I found that in reading from 
 a book called the Bible, admitted by the majority of the 
 English speaking people to be the rule of conduct, as 
 well as in all other utterances professed as the rule of 
 life, that black sometimes means white and vice versa. 
 
 One example of this, of which there are many, was 
 the late war with Spain. This occurred between two 
 nations confessedly Christian, and who take as their rule 
 of conduct the Bible. In the Old Testament it is writ- 
 ten, "Thou shalt not kill;" in the New Testament this 
 is still more strongly emphasized in the following pas- 
 sages: "Resist not him that is evil;" "Love your 
 enemies;" "Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will re- 
 compense, saith the Lord ; " "If thine enemy hunger, feed 
 him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou 
 shalt heap coals of fire upon his head." There are many 
 other passages that could be quoted to the same end, hut 
 they are too numerous to mention, and can be easily 
 recalled by almost anyone speaking English. Yet in 
 spite of all these express commandments forbidding to 
 kill, we find both nations actually beseeching the Author 
 of these commands for assistance to slaughter each other. 
 
 The poet speaks truly when he writes that our modern 
 disparity between profession and conduct is so great that 
 "One murder makes a villain, millions a hero; numbers 
 sanctify the crime." When I inquired as to the rule I 
 was to apply to harmonize these inconsistencies, so that 
 
I might judge accurately when black means white or the 
 reverse, no one could tell me. 
 
 The second was, if white means black at one time 
 and at another white, why not rewrite these rules and 
 regulations for conduct, definitely stating when black 
 means black and white black ? To this also I found no 
 solution. The result to a simple and honest mind was 
 bewildering in the extreme. 
 
 The third that forced itself upon me was that the 
 majority of people were living a treadmill life, and were 
 not conscious of the fact. That this habit or routine gov- 
 erned their conduct, not what they professed to believe. 
 
 Now, the object in publishing the following poems or 
 rhymed letters is to awaken people to this fact. So that 
 when once aroused they may set to work and solve the 
 problem., viz.: What should be the governing factor in 
 all action? What should be the rule of conduct? If 
 habit and feeling, then let us throw all profession of law 
 and reason overboard and manfully confess that we are 
 living according to our desires and habits. This logically 
 would mean the survival of the fittest, irrespective of any 
 supposed standard of right and wrong. Or else, make 
 our desires and habits conform to the highest reason, 
 which is law and the only true conscience. 
 
 Either of these positions would be honest and manly 
 compared with the position we now take of sitting 
 astride the fence, ready to jump down on whichever side 
 suits us best for the moment. 
 
 If this book succeeds in aiding even one fellow being 
 in reaching the true solution of these bewildering and 
 vital difficulties, I am repaid for its publication. 
 
John Rtiskin on Modern Infidelity. 
 
 (From concluding chapter of "Modern Painters.'*) 
 
 "The form which the infidelity of England, especially, 
 has taken, is one hitherto unheard of in human history.* No 
 nation ever before declared boldly, by print and word of 
 mouth, that its religion was good for show but 'would not 
 work.' Over and over again it has happened that nations 
 have denied their gods, but they denied them bravely. The 
 Greeks, in their decline, jested at their religion, and frittered 
 it away in flatteries and fine arts; the French refused their's 
 fiercely ; tore down their altars and broke their graven im- 
 ages. The question about God with both these nations was 
 still, even in their decline, fairly put though falsely answered. 
 'Either there is, or is not, a Supreme Ruler; we consider of 
 it, declare there is not, and proceed accordingly.' 
 
 "But we English have put the matter in an entirely new 
 light: 'there is a Supreme Ruler; no question of it; only He 
 cannot rule. His orders won't work. He will be quite satis- 
 fled with euphemisms and respectful repetitions of them. 
 Execution would be dangerous under the existing circum- 
 stances, which He certainly never contemplated.' 
 
 "I had no conception of the absolute darkness which has 
 covered the national mind in this respect until I began to 
 come into collision with persons engaged in the study of 
 economical and political questions. The entire naivet^ 
 and undisturbed imbecility with which I found them declare 
 that the laws of the Devil were the only practicable ones, 
 and that the laws of God were merely a form of poetical 
 language, passed all that I had ever heard or read of mortal 
 infidelity. I knew the fool had often said in his heart, there 
 is no God; but to hear him say clearly out with his lips, 
 * There is a foolish God,' was something for which my art 
 studies had not prepared me." 
 
 ♦This statement should include the English speaking i ace.— W. L. S. 
 
TEAPOT PHILOSOPHY 
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 Has Language No Definite Meaning ? A Plea 
 for Practical Religion. 
 
 Thoughts Suggested by a Wedding Present. 
 
 "Speak thy truth if thou believest it, 
 
 Let it jostle whom it may. 
 E'en although the foolish scorn it 
 
 Or the obstinate gainsay; 
 Every seed that grows tomorrow 
 
 Lies beneath the sod today."- Mack at. 
 
 -»^ 
 Sister, this souvenir I send to thee, 
 In memory of thy old-time love for tea; 
 And, though it may arrive a little late, 
 Take it for love, and never mind the date. 
 In winter evenings, when the blinds are down, 
 And fire bright, and toast is just done brown, 
 Take out this Chinese teapot, and what then? 
 Proceed to make a cup of tea for Ben. 
 And when you both have settled snugly round 
 Your little table, with its snowy ground 
 Of Irish damask, neatly garnished o'er 
 With toothsome dishes, an abundant store. 
 From out this teapot pour a cup apiece. 
 
^ Teapot Philosophy :;i^ 
 
 The soothing di-aughts will kindly thoughts increase. 
 
 Remember, then, how many have to roam 
 
 About the world, without a place called home. 
 
 Some without clothes except what's on each back, 
 
 And these, save name, most other virtues lack; 
 
 Of food and shelter ofttimes destitute. 
 
 And wanting these they soon lose all repute. 
 
 Convention eves the poor men all askance. 
 
 Blames them, and pierces with the critic's lance; 
 
 Yea, though they be embodied decalogues, 
 
 Their fare is harder than the rich man's dogs'; 
 
 For, lacking riches, what they 've left counts naught,- 
 
 True Christian virtues are not sold, nor bought. 
 
 Such qualities are very little use 
 
 In gathering wealth, or even to produce 
 
 The commonest necessities of life: 
 
 To get these means hypocrisy and strife, 
 
 To cheat, to steal, and everything in fact, 
 
 Including lying, policy, and tact. 
 
 Yes, "business" is a synonym for these, 
 
 In spite of plausible and polished pleas. 
 
 Now men who make good bargains we applaud. 
 
 Although their weaker brethren they defraud. 
 
 Get wealth, get wealth; it is the world's great aim; 
 
 Get it, and few will criticise or blame. 
 
 Though in acquiring you have broken through 
 
 All laws of truth and justice, old or new. 
 
 Wealth is the God before which all men bow — 
 
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^ Teapot Philosophy ^ 
 
 To gain it they will wallow like the sow; 
 
 For well they know, when they have gained its power 
 
 The world will on them every virtue shower; 
 
 Though they excelled the de 'il in all things base, 
 
 Their funeral sermons will be filled with grace. 
 
 These inconsistencies, my kindred dear, 
 
 Now that you're entering on a wider sphere. 
 
 Should make you pause, consider, search and crave 
 
 To find solution of these problems grave. 
 
 First duty to yourselves, makes this demand. 
 
 Then those to come who will complete your band; 
 
 For with the law, "Increase and multiply," 
 
 I've not the slightest doubt you will comply. 
 
 Now to our fathers a great debt is due, 
 
 For liberties they gained for me and you 
 
 By martyrdoms and sufferings in their day. 
 
 And to our children we've this debt to pay. 
 
 Thev were considered cranks and lunatics, 
 
 Imprisoned, exiled, stoned, abused with sticks. 
 
 Oft were they hungry, robbed of all they had. 
 
 Wasted by sickness, and with waiting sad; 
 
 Burned at the stake, beheaded on the block. 
 
 Whipped through the streets, put in the felon's dock. 
 
 Hanged on the gallows, tortured on the rack, 
 
 Their words perverted, actions painted black. 
 
 And with torn backs and lacerated sides 
 
 Dragged at the cart tail, whilst the mob derides. 
 
 For liberty their precious blood was spilled. 
 
¥- Teapot Philosophy ^ 
 
 While with the love of man their souls were filled. 
 
 Ah, these their su£ferin,^s, were foundation stones, 
 
 Bound and cemented by their blood and groans; 
 
 Upon them is our present freedom based, 
 
 But with absurdities it's still encased; 
 
 Though liberty of conscience it bestows, 
 
 With leave to talk about our wrongs and woes, 
 
 Yet such a privilege is little good 
 
 To many millions, who, to get tlieir food, 
 
 I\]ust bow and cringe, and ask some power to give 
 
 Them leave to work for what they need to live. 
 
 Now of the larder those who hold the key 
 
 Can force the hungry to with them agree. 
 
 'Tis said, "All things a man will give for life;" 
 
 Here lies the secret of most sin and strife; 
 
 And One who wrote of old again has said, 
 
 That " of the life of man the staff is bread ;" 
 
 Therefore, before you tell men to be good, 
 
 Show them how honestly to get their food. 
 
 Which at the present time they cannot do. 
 
 This statement may appear untrue to you, 
 
 But if you'd knocked about the world like me, 
 
 With empty pockets, you'd begin to see 
 
 That practical religion, conscience pure, 
 
 Means poverty and hunger, "certain, sure." 
 
 In business life, religion put in force 
 
 Would bring as bad results as any curse: 
 
 Not that religion in itself is wrong, — 
 
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^ Teapot Philosophy J^ 
 
 Its highest practice would make life a song. 
 
 To act and live it, and your larder fill, 
 
 Our present laws make quite impossible. 
 
 Until they're changed all preaching is in vain, 
 
 You must have rails on wliich to run a train. 
 
 The reason why I've written this to you, 
 
 Is thinking of what's likely to ensue: 
 
 The little ones that you will try to rear 
 
 In truth and honesty and godly fear. 
 
 Now should they take to heart the truths you teach. 
 
 And try to practice everything you preach, 
 
 Their life will bring them poverty, despair 
 
 (Unless you leave them wealth), a world of care. 
 
 They may become discouraged, and, alas, 
 
 Soon tramps and vagrants of the lowest class; 
 
 For circumstances change our course of life. 
 
 Our honesty and hopes, our power of strife. 
 
 And how the world appears to us, depends 
 
 Full much upon the color of our lens. 
 
 In church, who occupies a cushioned pew. 
 
 Will see the world in quite a different hue 
 
 From him, who, by the doorstep in the cold 
 
 Counts his few pence, as other men count gold. 
 
 What think ye would the noble Nazarene 
 
 JSay to such sights as in our midst are seen ? 
 
 Great churches, temples, meeting houses grand, 
 
 Six days within the week they idle stand. 
 
 While poor and homeless wander in the streets, 
 
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^ Teapot Philosophy jj^ 
 
 And at the empty breasts the buhy greets.* 
 
 These structures built in honor of his name, 
 
 In which to preach his doctrine, spread his fame, 
 
 Who was the publicans' and sinners' friend, 
 
 And said, "To him who'd of thee borrow — lend." 
 
 The intimate acquaintance of the poor; 
 
 Too humble to rebuke the evil doer. 
 
 But simply told him, if the law he'd break, 
 
 The consequences be prepared to take; 
 
 For motives are the only gauge of acts; 
 
 He knew this, and he would not judge the facts. 
 
 Who blames a man for halting when he's lame 
 
 Forgets that in his case he 'd do the same. 
 
 But all those looked upon as righteous then^ 
 
 And, altogether, most religious men, 
 
 The teachers, priests, the scribes and pharisees, 
 
 Who loved in public place to bend the knees. 
 
 And lived according to the outward law. 
 
 To all appearances without a flaw — 
 
 These Jesus in his righteous anger cursed, 
 
 As of all criminals the very worst. 
 
 The rich man's chance of heaven seemed in his sight, 
 
 As of all others, most extremely slight. 
 
 I think few Christians hold this statement true, 
 
 Or else their rush for wealth we should not view; 
 
 Nor in the midst of plenty see men die 
 
 For want of nourishment they could not buy. 
 
 The highest law that 's written in that book 
 
 'Cries. 
 
¥- Teapot Philosophy ^ 
 
 'Gainst which a word the Christians would not brook, 
 
 Is, "See thou lovest thy neighbor as thyself;" 
 
 Yet they continue still to love their pelf, 
 
 And every law will cherish which sustains 
 
 Them in possession of their selfish gains. 
 
 Suppose before the judgment seat we stand, 
 
 And the Great Judge proceeds with this demand: 
 
 " These questions answer as your life you love 
 
 Or fear the vengeance of the powers above. 
 
 Superior faculties I gave to you. 
 
 From which much benefit there might accrue; 
 
 How have you used these powers 1 did bestow? 
 
 To help your brothers, or to cause them woe? 
 
 Think ye, your brains and powers I did increase. 
 
 The ignorant, meek and tender ones to fleece; 
 
 Forcing the little from them called their own, 
 
 To heap up riches for yourselves alone? 
 
 Perhaps you'll answer me like one of old, 
 
 'Do we our brothers keep?' in accents cold. 
 
 Again, I ask you all to answer, why 
 
 Will you pervert the truth and act a lie? 
 
 All you that are such sticklers for the law, 
 
 And say my testament's without a flaw; 
 
 Is it not written there, to help the weak. 
 
 The hungry feed, as v/ell as truth to seek? 
 
 'Tis also said, do not oppress the poor; 
 
 That thou must not resist the evil doer. 
 
 But for all evil, good thou must return, 
 
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^ Teapot Philosophy ^ 
 
 And for thine enemies thy love must burn. 
 
 With these commandments must your lives accord 
 
 Before you have the right to call me Lord. 
 
 How will you answer then these charges true? 
 
 By twisting all my words to suit your view, 
 
 And shouting glory, glory to my name, 
 
 To blind me, lest I see your selfish aim ? 
 
 Or will you in your usual pompous style, 
 
 With patronizing air, nor look of guile, 
 
 Tell how you 've carried out my just decrees, 
 
 And even tried my slightest whim to please? 
 
 Of all the glorious works which you have done. 
 
 In words that something like what follows run: 
 
 'Lord, we've done many works in thy great name; 
 
 With cannon, fire and sword we've spread thy fame, 
 
 And made the red man listen to thy word; 
 
 Taught thy law good for evil with the sword. 
 
 We've sold them lots of Bibles and bad rum. 
 
 With other Christian vii'tues a good sum, 
 
 Through which thy doctrines have progressed so well 
 
 They've nearly all cleared out for heaven or hell. 
 
 Then see what we have done for our own poor ; 
 
 Taught them it is thy will they should endure, 
 
 Nor grumble at our laws, howe'er unjust. 
 
 But while we fill our pockets, in Thee trust; 
 
 In heaven they will be sure of their reward 
 
 And six feet we'll give each body 'neath the sward. 
 
 Thou seest the earth's not big enough for all; 
 
 Thy architect did into error fall, 
 
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^ Teapot Philosophy -^ 
 
 His calculations were somewhat astray 
 
 To meet the population of our clay. 
 
 According to our wisest scientists, 
 
 Who prove it by both facts and figured lists, 
 
 That if humanity should propagate 
 
 Some centuries more, just at the present rate, 
 
 Mankind will then so overcrowd the earth 
 
 That they will cause a universal dearth 
 
 Of e 'en the bare necessities of life — 
 
 While to get these would take continual strife, 
 
 Therefore we see the wisdom of thy plan 
 
 As all Thy wondrous works of love we scan; 
 
 How that in mercy thou did 'st war ordain 
 
 With all the evils that make up its train, 
 
 Simply to thin the dirty, famished ranks 
 
 Of vulgar sinners and plebeian cranks, 
 
 Who teach that 'Love your neighbor as yourself* 
 
 Is higher than the love of place or pelf; 
 
 T'o clear away the wretched, loathsome crowd 
 
 Whose fancied wrongs forever cry aloud, 
 
 And almost try the patience of Thy saints 
 
 By their continuous, envious complaints: 
 
 Saying that 'We hard working, honest men, 
 
 So patient in our toil, are quick to ken 
 
 Sharp ways to take advantage of the weak, 
 
 Browbeat and trample in the dust the meek, 
 
 And make fast laws in favor of ourselves 
 
 To steal the produce from the man who delves, 
 
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^ Teapot Philosophy -?f 
 
 The food and clothes from him whose horny hand 
 
 With sweated brow and sorrow, ploughs the land, 
 
 From sickly children, who in factories toil, 
 
 And men made brutes by working 'neath the soil 
 
 In cramped positions and in muddy light, 
 
 Until they almost lose their human sight. 
 
 The maidens, too, making their iron doom, 
 
 Nipped in the bud before they 've time to bloom; 
 
 Forced into motherhood before their time — 
 
 If such starved fruit could ever reach its prime — 
 
 In this condition to drag out their life, 
 
 A weary burden full of pain and strife.' 
 
 These charges, Lord, are all laid at our door, 
 
 With those not mentioned (twice as many more). 
 
 But well Thou knowest these are all absurd, 
 
 For it is Vv^ritten in Thy Holy Word — 
 
 The poor shall be with you unto the end, 
 
 'Tis useless then for us them to befriend; 
 
 To waste the riches Thou hast on us poured — 
 
 Reward for having always Thee adored, 
 
 While altering laws to give them back their own, 
 
 Would make untrue a mandate from Thy throne.'*^ 
 
 And now, dear hearts, this letter I must end, 
 
 With hope that you may fully comprehend 
 
 The few plain facts I have tried to write to you 
 
 In simple language, with no end in view 
 
 Like those who try the critic's ear to please 
 
 With words of music that your hearts might seize 
 
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i^ Teapot Philosophy jl^ 
 
 And turn to any meaning you desire, 
 
 The modern Devil's ruse to quench God's fire, 
 
 Which was foretold by those who wrote of old 
 
 In language plain, unvarnished, rude and bold, 
 
 That in the latter days to calm their fears, 
 
 Men would buy teachers who could please their ears. 
 
 Now take and share these burdens of my heart, 
 
 Sternly, with love, make others bear their part, 
 
 Until the day when justice is fulfilled 
 
 And love has every quaking conscience stilled. 
 
 I little thought a teapot could suggest 
 
 So many thoughts of error and unrest, 
 
 But now that it has done so much for me, 
 
 Just let it do the same for Ben and thee. 
 
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What J. L. Spaldingfj Bishop of Peoria^ Says. 
 
 "We must look, as educators, most closely to those 
 sides of the national life where there is the greatest menace 
 of ruin. It is plain that our besetting sin, as a people, is 
 not intemperance or unchastit}-, but dishonesty. From the 
 watering and manipulating of stocks to the adulteration of 
 food and drink, from the booming of towns and lands to 
 the selling of votes and the buying of office, from the halls 
 of Congress to the policeman's beat, from the capitalist* 
 who controls trusts and syndicates to the mechanic who does 
 Inferior work, the taint of dishonesty is everywhere. We 
 distrust one another, distrust those who manage public 
 affairs, distrust our fixed will to suffer the worst that may 
 befall rather than cheat or steal or lie. Dishonesty hangs, 
 like mephitic air, about our newspapers, our legislative 
 asseinblies, the municipal government of our towns and 
 cities, about our churches even, since our religion itself 
 seems to lack the highest kind of honesty, the downright 
 and thorough sincerity which is its life breath." 
 
 •More scientifically speaking, the monopolist. 
 
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A PLEA FOR HUMANITY, 
 
 '•My ear is pained. 
 My soul is sick with every day's report 
 Of wrong and outrage with which the land is filled. 
 There is no Ilesh in man's obdurate heart; 
 He does not feel for man; the natural bond 
 Of brotherhood is severed as the flax 
 That falls asunder at the touch of fire." 
 
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 Men! O men! you must be sleeping, that you stand so 
 
 idly by, 
 While young mothers age with woi'king, and with hun- 
 
 ger children cry. 
 Where's your manhood? where 's your virtue? where 's 
 
 the freedom that you boast? 
 To let millions die from hunger while the corn's shipped 
 
 from your coast; 
 Sold to keep some selfish landlord, living in luxurious 
 
 ease. 
 Thus do rich men make you victims of unjust and vile 
 
 decrees. 
 Not with love pay you this tariff, as for value you 've 
 
 received ; 
 Loath you are, as though some robber of your money 
 
 you'd relieved. 
 
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>- A Plea for Humanity :^ 
 
 Light, and air, and earth, and nature, heritage of every 
 
 man, 
 This without respect of persons, or despotic scheme or 
 
 plan, 
 That by strength that 's sometime mental, or more bru- 
 tal that of arm, 
 Overrides the w^eaker natures, and oppresses to their 
 
 harm ; 
 Doing despite to their birthright, which proclaims them 
 
 all free born, 
 Free and equal to each other, from no privilege fore- 
 sworn. 
 Thus all nature's gifts are common, common to us one 
 
 and all; 
 But when we monopolize them, then our brothers we 
 
 enthrall. 
 But let every man and brother do his share in each 
 
 day's toil, 
 Each in his own occupation drawing wages from the 
 
 soil; 
 Making rich and rare productions, every man after his 
 
 kind ; 
 So they '11 find their new creations suit each other's turn 
 
 of mind. 
 Then, with pleasure they '11 exchange them, and it tends 
 
 to mutual gain; 
 What is got by man's exertion seldom gives his brothers 
 
 pain. 
 
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^ A Plea for Humanity 1/^ 
 
 If superior strength producing should outdo our puny 
 
 throes, 
 We've no room to envy greatness when our small cup 
 
 overflows. 
 And the great cup thus producing, when it does o'erflow 
 
 its brim, 
 Droppings from it falling on us will refresh each weakly 
 
 limb. 
 But our boasted civilization makes each one a legal 
 
 thief, 
 And one thief will dupe another; so it always ends in 
 
 grief. 
 What a man has never wrought for he 's no right to 
 
 call his own; 
 And if rent for nature's free gifts is reward for having 
 
 sown, 
 Sense and justice have no meaning, and all men are 
 
 arrant fools; 
 They 'd much better die at once than be down-trodden 
 
 by such rules. 
 There's no law in earth or heaven that would warrant 
 
 " might as right," 
 For it is a bestial nature, not for man whose wider 
 
 sight 
 Gives him knowledge of the uses that employ both great 
 
 and small 
 To their mutual advantage, when one does not covet 
 
 all. 
 
^ A Plea for Humanity ^ 
 
 Land is plenty, labor's plenty; there's no need that we 
 
 should starve, 
 And let landlords, speculators, from our produce fortunes 
 
 carve. 
 Rouse yourselves ! Be up and stirring ! Float true free- 
 dom's banner high; 
 Don't sit whining over evils you yourselves can rec- 
 tify. 
 Ye are like men bound in prison, that by some mesmeric 
 
 power 
 Still believe that they are freemen, while the lash yet 
 
 makes them cower. 
 Ye are mocked by a false title that contains for you no 
 
 rights : 
 Better be a slave in title, and not feel how hunger 
 
 bites. 
 You have nought but name to boast of, and it makes a 
 
 sorry meal; 
 Will it clothe your aged mothers, or make cold less 
 
 bitter feel? 
 Ye had better ponder o'er this; better put your wits to 
 
 work ; 
 Use the reason nature gave you, from its promptings 
 
 never shirk. 
 May the cries of countless millions who in poverty have 
 
 died, 
 Through the laws of ruthless tyrants who all nghteous- 
 
 ness deride, 
 
V A Plea for Humanity ^ 
 
 Join in one continuous volume of seething liquid fire, 
 
 That will surge through every fibre of mankind, from 
 son to sire; 
 
 Till brute brains become so quickened that they under- 
 stand aright. 
 
 That when reason governs feeling, and with love they 
 both unite, 
 
 Then they '11 see brute force is madness and has no con- 
 vincing proof, 
 
 But adds bitterness to bitterness, and reason stands 
 aloof. 
 
 And many who'd have joined our ranks if patiently 
 persuaded 
 
 By logic so convincing that it could not be evaded, 
 
 While they behold some devilish deed whose violent 
 display 
 
 Might have killed a thousand innocents, it fills them with 
 dismay; 
 
 And they turn their backs upon us for deluded lunatics. 
 
 Think what fine ideas of justice, that need bombshells, 
 stones and sticks; 
 
 Not by such barbaric warfare will we ever free the 
 land, 
 
 For in " labor against rental " reason holds the winning 
 hand. 
 
 Then no use we have for cannon, bombshells, guns or 
 dynamite; 
 
 With united power invincible, derived from higher light, 
 
^ A Plea for Humanity jl^ 
 
 We'll march into our heritage on the day that we 
 
 agree, 
 And we'll hold it ever after as our day of jubilee, 
 The day in which our title is no mockery of fate, 
 For we '11 hold as one community the land in every 
 
 state. 
 Then, to call a man a landlord will be reckoned an 
 
 insult, 
 In remembrance of the misery that fi-om it did result. 
 In this great world-wide republic there'll be food for 
 
 great and small. 
 And the babies will be welcomed as a benefit to all: 
 For every pair of hands and feet that are born upon 
 
 the earth 
 Will be so much wealth of labor to provide against a 
 
 dearth. 
 And their work will be congenial, not like an imposed 
 
 task, 
 Just as easy as to flowers that in nature's sunshine bask. 
 Then they '11 prove the " Malthus theory " is but an 
 
 idle tale, 
 For when nature does outdo herself she knows how to 
 
 curtail. 
 But the prospect is so dim and vague that aeons will 
 
 roll by. 
 Many a million generations will live and work and die, 
 Before there is the slightest need that man should face 
 
 iAis problem, 
 
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^ A Plea for Humanity 1/^ 
 
 Though God m jest created men, of food and life to 
 
 rob them. 
 Then we'll see no more the starveling wandering through 
 
 our wintery streets, 
 Nor the poor abandoned woman whom the world with 
 
 hardness greets; 
 For a charity unbounded, seldom known in this our day, 
 Will unfurl its royal banner and o'er mankind hold its 
 
 sway. 
 We '11 not want for emulation when all poverty shall 
 
 end. 
 We can compete with one another, our own defects to 
 
 mend. 
 Then the thief will be unknown and the murderous 
 
 spirit dead. 
 For prenatal culture '11 have fair play and men will be 
 
 well-bred. 
 Yes, beautiful as history says^the old Greek heroes were, 
 For they studied form and culture with the greatest 
 
 taste and care; 
 Had their ideal been but higher, not all for wasting 
 
 war, 
 Then they m.ight have reached the acme that the noblest 
 
 men look for. 
 We 've a chance to win the glory of ushering in the 
 
 age 
 So oft foretold in rhyme and story, by prophet, priest 
 
 and saore. 
 
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^ A Plea for Humanity ^ 
 
 The just and poor have always longed for the coming 
 
 of the day 
 That will give all men an equal right to labor and fair 
 
 pay. 
 Then let 's think and work in earnest, looking all around 
 
 the land, 
 Where we'll see distress and poverty widespread on 
 
 every hand, 
 And willing hearts and dexterous hands living a paupei-'s 
 
 life, 
 With young hopes blasted, ideals crushed, by the unequal 
 
 strife ; 
 For 't is not on skilful labor or intellectual v/orth 
 That the world bestows her bounties, or brings golden 
 
 tribute forth. 
 But for bulldog inhumanity that grips its victim's throat, 
 Or cunning, fox-like treachery, that o'er friends can grin 
 
 and gloat. 
 These tread under foot all justice, making honest men 
 
 their slaves, 
 And self respecting laborers but low, obsequious knaves. 
 So, by stealing hard earned wages till Vv^e feel how hunger 
 
 gnaws, 
 Strong wills are broken and free souls tamed to keep 
 
 their evil laws. 
 And the names, "Liberty" and "Justice," that once meant 
 
 somethmg pure. 
 An embodiment of power and love that would all evils cure, 
 
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^ A Plea for Humanity ^ 
 
 Have become but standing bywords, at which all men 
 
 laugh and mock, 
 For they see they 're but for rich men to protect their 
 
 ill-gained stock, 
 And a hardened crew called " lawyers," who are paid to 
 
 twist the truth. 
 Who upon their brothers' weaknesses grow fat and full, 
 
 forsooth, 
 For they scoff at truth and purity as so much ranting 
 
 cant ; 
 Ah, well they know, where t/^ese hold sway their living 
 
 is but scant. 
 Now strict honesty is looked upon as acting the fool's 
 
 part, 
 And to steal and keep a million is considered "wise" and 
 
 " smart." 
 He who succeeds in doing this is crowned with fame and 
 
 glory, 
 And, if he should endow a church, the preachers laud 
 
 in story. 
 Society's great premium is for him who has learned to 
 
 steal, 
 It matters not what she may profess in words to think 
 
 or feel. 
 Should less 'cute or weaker brother steal a spoon or dollar 
 
 bill, 
 We imiDrison him for punishment, for lacking thieving 
 
 skill. 
 
^ A Plea for Humanity 1^ 
 
 Perhaps goaded on to madness by the direst sort of 
 
 need, 
 And cold shouldered by his neighbors, who his prayers 
 
 would never heed, 
 He broke through the tyrant bondage which ignorant 
 
 souls benight. 
 Taking but a few small morsels that he felt were his 
 
 by right. 
 For promiscuous hospitality the rich men do not care, 
 Though they have a chance of entertaining angels un- 
 aware. 
 They fear such pure and holy spirits might prove un- 
 pleasant guests. 
 By stirring up grim, ugly thoughts in their luxurious 
 
 nests. 
 Of true and liberal maxims no longer men take thought, 
 For the greed of gold has warped their minds and their 
 
 whole beings fraught. 
 Now the standard of success in life is " how pans out 
 
 the gold," 
 For the honest one of righteousness . has long grown 
 
 worn and old. 
 They have no regard for honor now like what they 
 
 used to have. 
 In dubious work 't is business that men use for conscience' 
 
 salve. 
 "A good bargain " 's how they speak of it when they 
 
 their neighbors rob, 
 
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> A Plea for Humanity ^ 
 
 By means of many a deep-laid scheme and low, deceitful 
 
 job. 
 Ignorance and simplicity make rich harvests for the 
 
 rogue, 
 Take advantage of necessity's the law that's now in 
 
 vogue. 
 Nature's laws are so perverted that to win the simplest 
 
 crown, 
 Means to trample on one's brothers and relentless beat 
 
 them down. 
 And our women-folk a bondage bear worse than the 
 
 southern slave; 
 
 He had property protection which tries wear and tear 
 to save; 
 
 But they to the highest bidder are knocked down without 
 reprieve, 
 
 The rich man's doll or popinjay, a badge upon his sleeve. 
 
 Driven to living slavery by the poverty bugbear. 
 
 For they are brave and dauntless spirits to face it that 
 would dare. 
 
 This the reason why the money wins amongst the 
 fairer sex. 
 
 That they choose a hollow, loveless life, lest need thcii- 
 souls should vex. 
 
 If they in young love's heated glamour should share the 
 poor man's lot. 
 
 Experience shows young love oft flies through the win- 
 dow from his cot; 
 
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>- A Plea for Humanity }|^ 
 
 For there poverty breeds carking care, and sickness swells 
 
 the list, 
 With a growing, pressing labor, that seems never to 
 
 desist; 
 This dulls the mind and senses, and the spiritual growth, 
 And the hopelessness of mending it inclines a man to 
 
 sloth; 
 It embitters all his life and thoughts, and love grows very- 
 dim. 
 Till in fierce despair he curses God for ever making him. 
 Worry makes him hard and surly, and with all things 
 
 discontent; 
 Then upon his patient, slaving wife, he gives his feelings 
 
 vent; 
 And should he turn vicious, brutal, such are matrimony's 
 
 laws, 
 They give him power to do such deeds as would make 
 
 a savage pause. 
 He can kill her by slow torture in a thousand different 
 
 ways, 
 To which sudden death is mercy, and when done to 
 
 beasts earns praise. 
 The law gives her body to him, and he would control her 
 
 mind, 
 Yea, e'en her soul, her higher self, if he could the power 
 
 but find. 
 Great man! In his pride and self-conceit, he struts about 
 
 and strides. 
 
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^ A Plea for Humanity :i^ 
 
 He thinks he has superior gifts and poor womankind 
 
 derides, 
 Just as though she were a painted toy invented for liis 
 
 use, 
 For his pleasure, whim or fancy, at his will to hind or 
 
 loose. 
 Kow correlatives imply each other, say logicians wise. 
 And the oak or acorn which was first, an unsolved 
 
 problem lies. 
 In this day of light and culture which gives impartial 
 
 sight, 
 No one has proved that man o'er woman should hold 
 
 an owner's right. 
 For the man implies the woman, and she just as much 
 
 the man; 
 They 're proclaimed by nature equal in the universal plan. 
 If woman seldom leads the race, 'tis because she's had 
 
 no chance. 
 And no doubt when solid justice reigns will often lead 
 
 life's dance. 
 Then, so much for our fair helpmeets; we must turn to 
 
 other themes. 
 Revealed by the piercing light of love's ever searching 
 
 gleams, 
 To him who would obey the law, the ancient Golden 
 
 Rule, 
 To love your neighbor as yourself, though you may be 
 
 dubbed a fool. 
 
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^ A Plea for Humanity jli 
 
 Now plagiarists most preachers are, viewed beneath love's 
 
 burning rays; 
 They live upon the fruits of toil, singing but oppressive 
 
 lays. 
 Quoting the words of other men who their own expe- 
 rience told; 
 Let them copy these, not quote, and speak their own 
 
 lives open, bold; 
 By what power they 've fought and conquered, moved 
 
 and acted on what grounds; 
 If they have not this to tell us, sermons are but empty 
 
 sounds. 
 Something personal and living is what's wanted now-a-day. 
 Present God and present devil not all based on old 
 
 hearsay. 
 Then our mission to the heathen, when about our street 
 
 they roam: 
 Mockery of true religion; charity begins at home. 
 Our concern about brute creatures, how they suffer from 
 
 abuse. 
 Turning from our fellow beings, with' deaf ears and 
 
 hearts obtuse. 
 Sometimes from our stolen riches give a crumb to those 
 
 who moan. 
 Then we look for praise and glory, for returning them 
 
 their own. 
 Hospitals we have for sick men, homes for foundlings,. 
 
 waifs and strays, 
 
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> A Plea for Humanity ^ 
 
 Trying to appease our conscience with the hypocrite's 
 
 displa3's. 
 Yet 'tis written on the pages of the volume we affect, 
 Through the needle's eye tiie camel will its passage make 
 
 direct, 
 Easier than the man with riches enter into peace and 
 
 rest. 
 Surely now, man's life and actions show he thinks this 
 
 only jest. 
 See what leagues and combinations, what emotional 
 
 crusades. 
 Men continually are making as the great Jehovah's aids. 
 In hopes to kill the tree of sin by lopping off the 
 
 branches, 
 Just like a maniac who would stop the Alpine ava- 
 lanches. 
 These fights are futile and absurd, as the laws of nature 
 
 show ; 
 When boughs are lopped from off a tree, life will to the 
 
 others flow ; 
 Causing them to bear such fruit old crops will drop into 
 
 the shade; 
 When you want to kill the tree, destroy the roots and 
 
 it will fade. 
 Now, the tree that we 've to cope with is gigantic in its 
 
 growth; 
 Can't be balked in its fruition as we bind men by an 
 
 oath, 
 
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^ A Plea for Humanity ^ 
 
 For its roots are deep and ancient, many fibred, tough 
 
 and strong; 
 From them spring in this world's systems all the phases 
 
 men term "wrong:" 
 Lying, drunkenness and sickness, with their colleagues, 
 
 murder, theft, 
 Want of food for brain and body of which millions are bereft. 
 These the vile fruits of that great tree whose true name 
 
 is selfishness, 
 Its life sustained on " might is right," stolen clothes its 
 
 flaunted dress. 
 And they who flourish by this tree, they are termed 
 
 " successful men ; " 
 They are worshiped, praised and feted like to gods who 
 
 all things ken. 
 Proud they turn upon their victims, blame them much 
 
 for being poor. 
 They, the wolves who stole their riches; oh how long 
 
 will men endure? 
 These are oft termed Christian heroes, say to Him they 
 
 bend the knee, 
 Who advocated on the Mount justice quite impartially. 
 And whose mighty follower said, " If you would the 
 
 gospel preach, 
 First feed the hungry, help the weak, then the truth 
 
 begin to teach." 
 I beseech you O my brothers, my hard worked and ill 
 
 paid friends, 
 
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t^ A Plea for Humanity :J^ 
 
 All from selfishness who suffer, or the misery that it 
 
 sends, 
 Think of what I've tried to tell you, with the words at 
 
 my command, 
 Thoughts so true they've burned within me, burned till 
 
 I could not withstand; 
 So I 've had to give them utterance in my feeble, simple 
 
 way. 
 Craving it may stir your spirits, till you rise in full 
 
 array. 
 Compelled by love unbounded, it by divinest reason ruled, 
 Determined to change the system that so long has you 
 
 befooled. 
 
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"ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY." 
 
 WAjf it is looked upon with loathing' and contefnpt, and 
 avoided as a dangerous and subtle enemy by the 
 poverty -stricken y and the thoughtful 
 portion of the laboring classes. 
 
 " I do not see in Christianity the mystery of the incar- 
 nation, but the mystery of social order — the association of 
 religion with " Paradise," an idea of equality which keeps 
 the rich from being massacred by the poor. An inequality 
 of fortunes could not exist without religion. A man dying 
 of starvation alongside one surfeited with the world's goods 
 would not submit to this difference unless he had some 
 authority which assured him that in the future, and through- 
 out eternity, the portion of each will be changed." 
 
 — Napoleon. 
 
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"Prejudices are to be destroyed, not tolerated." -Wtnwood Reade. 
 
 Xan^mark0 on tbe IRoat) to ^rutb 
 
 With Instructions by One 
 Who has Traveled the Road 
 
 •^TN recommending the following list of books, the litera- 
 {f>X teurs' standpoint of style has not been considered, as 
 it is held to be of secondary importance— the matter 
 to be expressed is the first thing to be emphasized, and the 
 style the second. The object in view in advising the study 
 of these works is that they express truths of practical utility 
 in the creating of perfect men and women. If we can get 
 these truths well expressed from the academical point of 
 view, and the people cultured enough to understand them 
 from that standpoint— good — but if not, we must take them 
 as we can get them and give them to others in the form that 
 they can understand. These books are chapters in the 
 grand book which contains the Science of Life, or the pro- 
 cess of making perfect men and women. An understanding 
 of the truths contained in them will solve the riddle of the 
 Sphinx. At first sight they appear to conflict, but on closer 
 inspection there will be found in the main a perfect harmony 
 throughout. Each book delineates a brick in the grand edi- 
 fice, but alas ! oftentimes the author thought his brick the 
 only one in the building, and was blind to the others, and in 
 so far as he was so limited, his brick is imperfect and mis- 
 leading. 
 
 Neither Is it to be understood that in emphasizing these 
 books, we believe them to be the only books worthy of being 
 read; what we do know is that a perusal of them will natur- 
 ally lead to the reading of other books along the several 
 lines treated of by those in the category. Whether the read- 
 ers find other authors who deal with the subjects in better or 
 worse style, more lucidly or the reverse, depends not so 
 much on any absolute standard by which such matters are 
 judgedj as the individual training and natural predilection 
 of each reader. It is a law — we can never see but what we 
 are ; everything we look at reflects back our own image. 
 
 Anyone reading these works, to thoroughly fcompre- 
 hend the meaning of the Great Book, must take as a motto, 
 " The Truth at Any Cost." They must not be in love with any 
 preconceived idea, habit, custom, or be swayed by their feel- 
 ing or temperament. Let them, like a medical student, 
 thoroughly dissect every subject that comes before them, 
 
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irrespective of whether it is personally offensive or not. 
 If they cannot do this, they need never hope to attain to the 
 Truth. In the recommending of these boolcs, not only is the 
 effect they will have on the individual student held in view, 
 but also the fact that they will give a knowledge of the 
 proper book to place in the hands of the seekers after truth, 
 in any of its multitudinous branches and at any stage of 
 development. We must not forget that the people that 
 have to be dealt with represent almost every age in the 
 world's history in their individual development, as well as 
 many grades in the educational attainments of the present 
 day — from the grossest ignorance and narrow-mindedness 
 to that of the highest culture, and the presentation of the 
 same truth that will reach one stage or grade will be en- 
 tirely refused by the other as non-comprehensible. The true 
 teacher speaks to each class in its own language and from 
 its own platform. Remember, "All things to all men that I 
 may by all means save some," and "All things are lawful 
 for me but not all things are expedient, all things are lawful 
 for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any." 
 
 BREAKING GROUND. 
 
 "The man that is not moved at what he reads. 
 That takes not fire at their heroic deeds. 
 Unworthy of the blessings of the brave, 
 Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. 
 
 Even As You and I B Hall 
 
 Teapot Philosophy Walter L. Sinton 
 
 Who Lies ? , Blum & Alexander 
 
 Between Caesar and Jesus Prof. Geo. D. Herron 
 
 THE LAW (ECONOMICS) -Lig:ht Litefatttt-e. 
 
 'He that gathers wealth to give to the poor his memory shall be fra- 
 grant as roses; but he that toils with the poor so that there be no poor, all 
 the flowers of the garden cannot measure his sweetness."— Arab Pkoverb 
 
 Joshua Davidson, or a Modern Imitation of Christ. . . Linton 
 
 Alton Locke Charles Kingsley 
 
 Yeast Charles Kingsley 
 
 Caesar's Column Ignatius Donnelly 
 
 Looking Backward Bellamy 
 
 Equality Bellamy 
 
 John Ball's Dream William Morris 
 
 My Religion Tolstoi 
 
 Almost Persuaded Will N. Harben 
 
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" 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
 Where wealth accumulates and men decay." 
 
 — Goldsmith. 
 The eloquent Patrick Henry said: "We can only 
 judge the future by the past." Look at the past! When 
 Egypt went down, two per cent, of her population owned- 
 ninety-seven per cent, of her wealth. The people were 
 starved to death. When Persia went down, one per cent. 
 of her population owned the land. When Babylon went 
 down, two per cent, of her population owned all her 
 wealth. The people were starved to death. When Rome 
 went down, 1800 men owned all the known world. 
 
 How is it with the United States? Will we add it to 
 Pati'ick Henry's list of countries ruined by the concentra- 
 tion of the wealth produced by all the people, into the hands 
 of a few, while the many are starved? 
 
 Is the following prophecy of Lincoln, written to his 
 friend Elkins, in Illinois, 1864, coming true? 
 
 " As a result of the war, corporations have been en- 
 throned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, 
 and the money power of the country will endeavor to pro- 
 long its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people 
 until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the repub- 
 lic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the 
 safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of 
 war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless." 
 Let us study the following statistics taken from the 
 U. S. census of 1890, and see. 
 
 WEALTH PRODUCED IN U. 8. AND WHO GETS IT. 
 
 YBAB. 
 
 WEALTH. 
 
 PRODUCER 
 PER CENT. 
 
 MONOPOLIST 
 PKR CENT. 
 
 1850 
 1860 
 1870 
 1880 
 1890 
 
 $ 8,000,000,000 
 16,000,000,000 
 30,000,000,000 
 48,000,000,000 
 62,000,000,000 
 
 62 1-3 
 
 43 3-4 
 82 2-3 
 24 
 17 
 
 37 1-2 
 
 56 1-4 
 67 1-3 
 76 
 83 
 
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TABLE APPEOXIMATELY SHOWING THE MASSED CON- 
 CENTRATION OF INCORPORATED WEALTH IN ONE 
 LIFETIME, WHICH HAS NO PARALLEL IN THE 
 WORLD'S HISTORY OF EXPLOITATION. 
 
 Princes of Wealth 
 
 Multi-Millionaires & Millionairea 
 Middle Class — Easy 
 
 PRODUCING CLASSES. 
 
 Business Strugglers 
 
 Laboring Class 
 
 60 
 
 24,940 
 
 1,244,015 
 
 3,899,586 
 6,594,796 
 
 AMOUNT. 
 
 ? 3,000,000,000 
 29,750,000,000 
 15,000,000,000 
 
 12,000,000,000 
 2,746,000,000 
 
 According to these statistics the present monopolistic 
 system of production and distribution has concentrated 
 seventy-one per cent, of the nation's wealth into the hands 
 of nine per cent, of the population, and the process of con- 
 centration is still going on with accelerated rapidity. 
 
 A GLANCE AT THE CONCENTRATION OF ENORMOUS 
 WEALTH INTO THE HANDS OF A FEW PERSONS. 
 
 Control of $12,000^000,000 is held by 3,987 multi-mil- 
 lionaires. To comprehend its immensity we have only to 
 remember that the combined wealth of twelve of our great 
 States does not exceed $'j, 000, 000, 000. In the city of New 
 York alone there are three men whose combined wealth ^yi- 
 ceeds $j;oo.)0OO.)OOO. Ten men have acquired within a few 
 years $790,000,000. Sixty 7ion-froducing families hold 
 more of the national zvealth than 6,^g4,'jg6 families of the 
 wealth-producing working classes. One family controls 
 one-third of the railway system, of the United States. The 
 railroad companies hold land enough to make six states like 
 Ohio. Mr. Disston,of Pennsylvania, holds 4,000,000 acres ; 
 Vanderbilts, 2,000,000 acres; Standard Oil Company, 
 1,000,000; Murphy, of California, a tract large enough to 
 make a state the size of Massachusetts. The Schenly estate 
 receives an annual income of $1,000,000. Viscount Scully 
 holds 3,000,000 acres. The English nobility hold 20,000,. 
 
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Heavy Lheratore. 
 
 " With your science and your books 
 And your theories about spooks. 
 
 Did you ever hear of looking in your heart? 
 I didn't mean your pocket, Mister; no ; 
 
 I mean that, having children and a wife. 
 And ten a week on which to come and go. 
 
 Isn't dancing to the tabor and the life. 
 When it doesn't make you drink. 
 By Heaven! it makes you think. 
 
 And notice curious items about life." 
 
 Merrie England (Nunquam) E. Blatchford 
 
 Keply to Merrie England. . .(Ed. Financial Almanac) Callie 
 
 Social Problems Henry George 
 
 Land Question " " 
 
 Passage at Arms " " 
 
 The Condition of Labor " " 
 
 Progress and Poverty " " 
 
 Protection and Free Trade " " 
 
 Perplexed Philosopher " " 
 
 My Dictatorship 
 
 Outlines of Post's Lectures, Illustrated 
 
 Natural Taxation Thomas G. Shearman 
 
 New Economy Lawrence Gronlund 
 
 Co-operative Commonwealth Lawrence Gronlund 
 
 Communism By a Capitalist 
 
 The Chicago Martyrs ; Their Speeches in Court 
 
 Social Evolution Kidd 
 
 New Kepublic Schelhous 
 
 Ancient Lowly Ward 
 
 Six Centuries of Work and Wages T. Rogers 
 
 The Land Question Fisher-Birbeck 
 
 Nationalization of Land Prof. A. R. Wallace 
 
 Law of Civilization and Decay Brooks Adams 
 
 England's Ideal Edward Carpenter 
 
 Wealth Against Commonwealth H. D. Lloyd 
 
 Labor Copartnership H. D. Lloyd 
 
 Wagner's Ring of the Niebelungen David Irvine 
 
 History of Socialism Kirkup 
 
 Catholic Socialism Netti 
 
 Genesis of the Social Conscience Nash 
 
 Facts and Forces Washington Gladden 
 
 Social Theory Bascom 
 
 PresentDistribution of Wealth in U. S C. B. Spahr 
 
 Studies in Economics Wm. Smart 
 
 The Workers. East and West Prof. Wyckoff 
 
 A Handbook of Socialism Bliss 
 
 Science of the Millenium Stephen and Mary May bell 
 
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ooo acres. Mr. Rockefeller is computed to be worth 7,000,- 
 000 more than the total wealth of the state of South 
 Carolina. In i860 farmers owned one-half of the wealth 
 of the United States. In 1890 they owned less than one- 
 fifth. —From y. W, Arnold's Chart. 
 
 The Social Revolution is bound to come. It will come 
 either in full panoply of law, and surrounded with all the 
 blessings of peace, provided the people have the wisdom to 
 take it by the hand and introduce it betimes; — or it may 
 break in upon us unexpectedly, amidst all the convulsions 
 of violence, with wild disheveled locks, and shod in iron 
 sandals. Come it must, in one way or the other. When I 
 withdraw myself from the turmoil of the day and dive into 
 history, I hear distinctly its approaching tread. — Lassalle. 
 
 "We can find no evidence of a holier spirit or a more 
 <3ivine one in the Church than in anj^ other human institu- 
 tion for the propagation of instruction. The Church has 
 never been superior to the times, never as far advanced as 
 the best men of the day, never a leader, but rather an op- 
 poser of progress; hindering when ideas were new, and 
 only coming in to help when workers without had proved 
 their discoveries, and it was evident that credit would be 
 lost by refusing to recognize them. There is no cruelty 
 the Church has not practised, no sin it has not committed, 
 no ignorance it has not displayed, no inconsistency it has 
 not upheld, from teaching peace and countenancing war to 
 preaching poverty and piling up riches. True, there have 
 been saints in the Church; but there have been great saints 
 out of it. Saintliness comes of conscientiously cultivating 
 the divine in human nature; it is a seed that is sown and 
 ilourishes under the most diverse conditions." 
 
 — Sarah Grand, 
 "Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: 
 Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God ; 
 As I wad do, were I Lord God, 
 And ye were Martin Elginbrodde." 
 
 — From David Elghibrod. 
 
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ICONOCLASTIC (THEOLOGICAL) -Light Literature 
 
 "For modes of Faith let graceless zealots flght; 
 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."— Pope. 
 
 Kobert Elsmere Mrs. Humphrey Ward 
 
 John Ward, Preacher Margaret Deland 
 
 John Inglesant John Shorthouse 
 
 The World of Cant 
 
 Hypatia Charles Kingsley 
 
 Lost Atlantis Ignatius Donnelly 
 
 Ragnarok " " 
 
 The Pilgrim and the Shrine E. Maitland 
 
 The Story of an African Farm Kalph Iron 
 
 Heavy Literature. 
 
 "Try all things; hold fast lo that which is good." 
 
 "By the light of burning heretics Christ's bleeding feet I track, 
 Toiling up new Calvaries ever with the cross that turns not back. 
 And those mounts of anguish number how each generation learned 
 One new word of that grand Credo which in prophet-hearta hath burned 
 Since the flrst man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven up- 
 turned."— Lowell. 
 
 Age of Reason T. Paine 
 
 Ingersoll's Works 
 
 Conflict between Religion and Science Prof. Draper 
 
 Martyrdom of Man Winwood Reade 
 
 Volney's Ruins 
 
 Orbs of Heaven O. M. Mitchell 
 
 Literature and Dogma Matthew Arnold 
 
 The Childhood of the World E. Clodd 
 
 The Birth and Growth of Myth 
 
 The Childhood of Religion " 
 
 Story of the Creation; a plain account of evolution " 
 
 Lux Mundi 
 
 Paradoxes Nordau 
 
 Conventional Lies of Our Civilization " 
 
 Christianity and Agnosticism; a controversy between Prof. 
 
 Thos. H. Huxley and others 
 
 Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions 
 
 False Claims of tlie Church John E. Remsberg 
 
 Sixteen Crucified Savioi's Kersey G raves 
 
 •Christian Absurdities John Peck 
 
 How to Study Strangers by Temperament, Face and Head. 
 
 Nelson Sizer 
 
 Self Instructor in Phrenology O. S. and L. N. Fowler 
 
 How to Read Character R. S. Wells 
 
 Up to Date Home Study. Your Head and What Is In It. 
 Mary E. Vaught. 
 
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"Without the love there would be no home; without 
 the poverty no hell. Neither lightens the burdens of the 
 other: each multiplies all that is terrible in both." 
 
 — Helen H. Gardener^ 
 
 " So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and wis- 
 dom a social condemnation which in the face of a civilization 
 that artificially creates hell on earth and complicates a 
 destiny that is divine, with human fatality ; so long as the 
 three problems of the age — the degradation of men by 
 poverty, the ruin of women by starvation and the divarfng 
 of chiidhoodhy physical and spiritual night — are not solved ; 
 so long as in certain regions social asphyxia shall be pos- 
 sible; in other words and from a yet more extended point 
 of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, 
 books like these cannot be useless." — Victor Hugo. 
 
 " The human race 
 To you means, such a child, or such a man, 
 You saw one morning waiting in the cold. 
 All 's yours and you 
 All colored with your blood, or otherwise 
 Just nothing to you. Why I call you hard 
 To general suffering. A Red-haired child 
 Sick in a fever, if you touch him once, 
 Will set you weeping. But a million sick, 
 You could as soon weep for the rule of three." 
 
 " Woman, with her emotional nature morbidly stimu- 
 lated by a vicious education of repression and concealment, 
 keeps the world back in the regions of superstition. A 
 man, to spare her feelings, conceals and arrests his own 
 progress. And so humanity lingers on its road, as Adam 
 shared the apple, that woman may not be left behind. * * 
 
 " It is little wonder that so many of our youth in the 
 passage between the feminine imaginations that have guided 
 their childhood and the actualities of manhood, become 
 hopelessly wrecked and lost for want of sounder knowledge 
 of their own natures and the v/orld's meaning." 
 
 — Edward Maitland. 
 
 U 
 
Sexual and Health Questions — Light Literature* 
 
 " It '8 Oh ! to be a slave 
 
 Along with the barbarous Turk, 
 ■Where woman has never a soul to saT6, 
 If this is Christian work."— Hood. 
 
 Heavenly Twins Sarah Grand 
 
 Ghosts Ibsen 
 
 Tess of the D'Urbervilles T. Hardy 
 
 Higher Law E. Maitland 
 
 By and By 
 
 Papa's Own Girl Marie Howland 
 
 Pushed by Unseen Hands Helen H. Gardener 
 
 Is This Your Son, My Lord? " 
 
 Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter ? " 
 
 A Thoughtless Yes " 
 
 Anna Earenina Tolstoi 
 
 Mother Soul Laura Smith (Greer) 
 
 Discords. George Egerton 
 
 Heavy Literature. 
 
 Prof. Max Muller says: "All truth Is safe and nothing elee is safe; 
 and he who keeps back the truth or withholds it f rom^ien, from motives 
 of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or both." 
 
 Esoteric Anthropology Dr. Nichols 
 
 A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Mary Wollstonecraft 
 
 Marriage as it was, is, and should be Mrs. Besant 
 
 The Emancipation of Women Adele Crepaz 
 
 Love's Coming of Age E. Carpenter 
 
 The Evolution of Marriage Ch. Letourneau 
 
 Vindication of Sex Helen Wilmans 
 
 British Freewomen Mrs. C. C. Stopes 
 
 Education During Sleep Sydney H. Flower, LL. D. 
 
 Sexual Law and The Philosophy of Perfect Health Close 
 
 Regeneration S. A. Weltmer 
 
 Woman August Bebel 
 
 Karezza. Ethics of Marriage Alice B. Stockham, M. D. 
 
 Tokology " 
 
 Why I Am A Vegetarian J. Howard Moore 
 
 The Nature Cure Drs. M. E. and Rosa Conger 
 
 American Vegetarian Cookery 
 
 The True Science of Living E. H. Dewey 
 
 Perfect Way in Diet Dr. A. B. Kingaford 
 
 Physianthropy Mrs. C. Leigh Hunt Wallace 
 
 Physical Culture Carrica LeFavre 
 
 The Family Gymnasium T. Trail, M. D. 
 
 The Art of Massage A. Creighton Hale 
 
 45 
 
THE FAILURE OF THE FINITE TO COM- 
 PREHEND THE INFINITE. 
 
 "God called up from dreams a man in the vestibule of 
 Heaven, saying, 'Come thou hither and see the glory of my 
 house.' And to the servants that stood around His throne 
 He said, 'Take him and undress him from his robes of flesh: 
 cleanse his vision, and put a new^ breath into his nostrils ; only 
 touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that 
 weeps and trembles.' It was done: and, with a mighty angel 
 for his guide, the man stood ready for his infinite voyage ; and 
 from the terraces of Heaven, without sound or farewell, at 
 once they wheeled away into endless space. SoiDetimes 
 with the solemn flight of angel wing they fled through 
 Zaarahs of darkness, through wildernesses of death, that 
 divided the worlds of life; sometimes they swept over fron- 
 tiers, that were quickening under prophetic motions of God. 
 Then, from a distance that is counted only in Heaven, light 
 dawned for a time through a sleepy film ; by unutterable 
 pace the light swept to them: they, by unutterable pace, 
 to the light. In a moment, the rushing of planets was 
 upon them ; in a moment, the blazing of suns was around 
 them. 
 
 "^ " Then came eternities of twilight, that revealed but 
 were not revealed. On the right hand and on the left, 
 towered mighty constellations, that, by self -repetitions and 
 answers from afar, that by counter-positions, built up tri- 
 umphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways, horizon- 
 tal, upright, rested, rose, at altitude by spans that seemed 
 ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the archi- 
 traves, past number were the archv/ays, beyond mem- 
 ory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities 
 below; above was below, below was above, to the man 
 stripped of gravitating body: depth was swallowed up in 
 height insurmountable — height was swallowed up in depth 
 unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite 
 to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over abysmal 
 worlds, a mighty cry arose, that systems more mysterious, 
 
 46 
 
OCCULT.— Light Literature. 
 
 "First slave to words, then vassal to a name. 
 Then dupe of party; child and man the same: 
 Bounded by nature, narrowed still by art, 
 A trifling head and a contracted heart." 
 Such a oondiiion will prevent the study of these books, 
 
 Karma A. P. Sinnett 
 
 The Blossom and the Fruit Mabel Collins 
 
 The Idyll of the White Lotus 
 
 The Coming Race Lytton 
 
 A Strange Story " 
 
 Zanoni " 
 
 On the Heights of Himalay A. Van Der Naillen 
 
 The Double Man F. B. Dowd 
 
 Nightmare Tales H. P. Blavatsky 
 
 The Brother of the Third Degree W. L. Garver 
 
 Mystery of a Turkish Bath Rita 
 
 Mystic Quest Kingland 
 
 Magic Skin Balzac 
 
 Heavy Literature. 
 
 "Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all 
 thy getting, get understanding." 
 
 Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society 
 
 Esoteric Buddhism A. P. Sinnett 
 
 Occult World 
 
 The Hasheesh Eater Anonymous 
 
 Reincarnation Anderson 
 
 The Temple of the Rosv Cross. Part I F. B. Dowd 
 
 Regeneration. Part II " 
 
 Why I Became a Theosophist Besant 
 
 In the Outer Court " 
 
 Isis Unveiled. 2 vols H. P. Blavatsky 
 
 Working Glossary for Theosophical Students 
 
 Psychometry and Thought Transference 
 
 Ocean of Theosophy Judge 
 
 Wilkesbarre Letters on Theosophy FuUerton 
 
 Rationale of Mesmerism Sinnett 
 
 Law of Psychic Phenomena Hudson 
 
 Somnambulism Dr. Sydney Flower 
 
 How to Hypnotize " 
 
 Hypnotism Up To Date , " 
 
 MoU'b Hypnotism 
 
 Solar Biology H. E. Butler 
 
 Psychometry Joseph R. Buchanan 
 
 Automatic or Spirit Writing, Etc Sara A. Underwood 
 
 47 
 
that worlds more billowy, other heights and other depths, 
 were coming, were nearing, were at hand. 
 
 " Then the man sighed and stopped, shuddered and 
 wept. His overladen heart uttered itself m tears; and he 
 said, 'Angel, I will go no farther; for the spirit of man 
 acheth with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. 
 Let me lie down in the grave and hide me from the perse- 
 cution of the infinite; for end I see, there is none.' And 
 from all the listening stars that shone around issued a choral 
 voice, 'The man speaks truly: end there is none, that ever 
 yet we heard of.' ' End is there none?' the angel solemnly 
 demanded: 'Is there indeed no end? and is this the sorrow 
 that kills you?' But no voice answered, that he might 
 answer himself. Then the angel threw up his glorious 
 hands to the Heaven of Heavens, saying, 'End there is none 
 to the universe of God. Lo,?.lso, there is no beginning.' " 
 
 — Jean Paul Richter. 
 
 "The increasing prospect tires the Virandering eyes; 
 Hill peeps o'er hill and Alps on Alps arise." — Pope. 
 
 " \i ye lay bound upon the wheel of change, 
 
 And no way were of breaking from the chain, 
 The Heart of boundless Being is a curse, 
 The Soul of Things fell Pain. 
 " Ve are not bound! the Soul of Things is sweet, 
 The Heart of Being is celestial rest; 
 Stronger than woe is will: that which was Good 
 Doth pass to Better — Best." — E. Arnold, 
 
 " Yet no man lives, who never, looking backward. 
 
 Sickens at the piteous patchwork all his life will seem. 
 When some wind of memory, in his bosom quickens, 
 The ashes of ambition, the dust of some dead dream. 
 "For the Gods gave labor, and failure for its payment; 
 The best work in the end seems marred and incomplete. 
 Life is a thing of patches, and like to ragged raiment; 
 Who will renew the garments, and make the rents to 
 mt^W^— Herbert Clarke. 
 
 48 
 
SPIRITUAL AND METAPHYSICAL. 
 
 "J form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil; 
 1 iho Lord do all these [things]."— Isaiah xlv: 7. 
 
 Seeking the Kingdom Patterson 
 
 Beyond the Clouds 
 
 How We Master Our Fate Gestefeld 
 
 Breath of Life; Self Treatments 
 
 The Metaphysics of Balzac " 
 
 The World Beautiful. 3 vols Lilian Whiting 
 
 The Living Christ Paul Tyner 
 
 The Golden Ladder Clarkson 
 
 Ideal Suggestion Through Mental Photography Wood 
 
 Studies in the Thought World " 
 
 God's Image in Man " 
 
 All 's Right With the World Newcombe 
 
 In Tune With the Infinite Trine 
 
 What All the World 's A-Seeking " 
 
 Condensed Thoughts About Christian Science... Holcombe 
 Power of Thought in Production and Cure Disease " 
 
 Influence of Fear in Disease " 
 
 Power of Silence Dresser 
 
 Twelve Lessons in Truth Cady 
 
 Philosophy of Mental Healing Whipple 
 
 Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought. 
 
 Fletcher 
 
 Menticulture ; the A B C of True Living " 
 
 Dr. Geo. Foote on Mental Healing 
 
 Old and New Psychology Colville 
 
 Healing Thoughts Barton 
 
 The Mastery of Fate. 2 vols Braun 
 
 Power Through Repose Annie Payson Call 
 
 Don't Worry; The Scientific Law of Happiness Seward 
 
 Big Truths for Little People Cramer 
 
 The Law of Vibrations Shelton 
 
 Vibrations ; The Law of Life Williams 
 
 Science and Healing M. E. Cramer 
 
 In Search of a Soul Dresser 
 
 Perfect Whole " 
 
 Spiritual Consciousness Frank H. Sprague 
 
 Suggestive Therapeutics Bernheim 
 
 Psycho Therapeutics Lloyd Tuckey 
 
 Science and Health Mary B. G. Eddy- 
 Mental Medicine W. F.Evans 
 
 Primitive Mind Cure " 
 
 Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics " 
 
 Divine Law of Cure " 
 
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<* Men of large mind are very rarely happy men. It 
 is your little animal-minded individual who can be happy. 
 Thus women^ who reflect less^ are as a class happier and 
 more contented than men. But the large-minded man sees 
 too far, and guesses too much of what he cannot see. He 
 looks forward, and notes the dusty end of his laborious 
 days; he looks around and shudders at the unceasing misery 
 of a coarse struggling world; the sight of the pitiful beg- 
 gar babe craving bread on tottering feet pierces his heart. 
 He cannot console himself with the reflection that the child 
 had no business to be born, or that if he denuded himself of 
 his last dollar he would not materially help the class which 
 bred it. * * * For such a man, in such a mood, even 
 religion has terrors as well as hopes, and while the gloom 
 gathers about his mind these are with him more and more. 
 What lies beyond that arching mystery to whose horizon 
 he draws daily more close — whose doors may even now be 
 opening for him? A hundred voices answer, but no two 
 agree. A hundred hands point out a hundred roads to 
 knowledge — they are lost half way." — H. Rider Haggard, 
 
 "Remember: — It is not the act, but the will, which 
 marks the soul of the man. He who has crushed a nation 
 sins no more than he who rejoices in the death throe of the 
 meanest creature. The stagnant pool is not less poisonous 
 drop for drop than the mighty swamp, though its reach is 
 smaller. He who has desired to be and accomplish what 
 this man has been and accomplished, is as this man; though 
 he have lacked the power to perform." — Olive Schreiner, 
 
 " On the other hand we must not forget that we are in 
 action individually controlled by the laws we make collect- 
 ively. If the laws made collectively are evil, the individual 
 no matter how well disposed will have to express himself 
 in an evil manner, until the laws are changed." 
 
 — Walter L. Sinton. 
 
 "Circumstances govern all without, character all within." 
 
 — E. Maitland. 
 
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HELEN OILMAN'S PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 The Blossom of the Century. This is a mental science book; it 
 is all about the possibilities of human power; the power 
 vested in human development. It is at once a mighty re- 
 velation and a mightier prophecy. Such a book is inesti- 
 mable in lis capacity to unfold native mental ability in the 
 person who studies it and to establish him in unfaltering 
 self trust ; the absence of self trust is self defeat every time ; 
 its absence is the curse of the race; it is neither poverty 
 nor disease nor oppression that curses us ; it is the want of 
 self confidence that does it. The man who has self trust 
 goes up head; those who lack it take their places below 
 him and stand, usually, where the self trustful man places 
 him. 
 
 Wilman's Express Condensed. Consists of two volumes of Essays 
 by Helen Wilmans and Ada Wilmans Powers. They have 
 had a large sale and have been extravagantly praised. 
 
 Poverty and Its Core. It will prove a sure way out of the thralls 
 to those who will study it thoroughly. 
 
 Vindication of Sex. This is a powerfully written treatise upon 
 a subject now occuqying the world's thought to a greater 
 extedt than any other- Sex is the basis of all life ; and yet 
 nothing is so abused, maligned and misunderstood. 
 
 Home Course in Mental Science. Twenty lessons in twenty pam- 
 phlets : 1, Omnipresent Life. 2, Thought, the Body- 
 Builder. 3, Our Beliefs. 4, Denials. 5, Affirmations. 6, 
 The Soul of Things. 7, Faith, Our Guide Through the 
 Dark. 8, Spirit and Body are One. 9, Prayer and Self 
 Culture. 10, The Power Behind the Throne. 11, The Power 
 Above the Throne. 12, The Ling on His Throne. 13, Men- 
 tal Science a Kace Movement. 14, Mental Science Incar- 
 nate in Flesh and Blood. 15, Personality and individuali- 
 ty. 16, "The Stone that the Builders Kejected." 17, A Noble 
 Egoism the Foundation of Just Action. 18, Eeoognitien of 
 the Will the Cure of Disease. 19, Practical Healing. 20, 
 Posture of the Will Man. 
 
 A Search for Freedom. 
 
 A Healing Formula. 
 
 "Freedom." A twelve page weekly paper, edited by Helen 
 Wilmans. 
 
" When the bread is bitter, it is easy not to linger at the 
 meal. When the oil is low, it is easy to rise with the dawn. 
 When the body is without surfeit or temptation, it is easy 
 to rise above flesh on the wings of the spirit. You say 
 poverty is very terrible to you and kills the soul in you, but 
 is it not like the northern blast, which lashes men into 
 vikings? is it not the luscious south wind, which lulls them 
 into lotus eaters?" — Ouida. 
 " If thy success had been greater, thou hadst been less." 
 " By thine own soul's law, learn to live, 
 And if men thwart thee take no heed, 
 And if men hate thee have no care; 
 Live thou thy life and do thy deed, 
 Hope thou thy hope and pray thy prayer, 
 And ask no meed they will not give." 
 
 " This above all : — to thine own self be true, 
 And it must follow, as the night the day. 
 Thou canst not then be false to any man." 
 
 " And for success I ask no more than this — 
 To bear unflinching witness to the Truth." 
 «No! 
 True freedom is to share 
 All the chains our brothers wear, 
 And with hand and heart to be 
 Earnest to make others free!" — Lowell. 
 
 " The problem which every honest man has to face, 
 is not one of more or less bread and butter, but of THE 
 RIGHT TO DO RIGHT. As to any individual being 
 honest in practice under the present commercial system, it 
 is utterly impossible. There is no position' in which we 
 could be placed, in which we should be independent of our 
 fellows, and if such a position were possible, it would not 
 be right for us to occupy it, as we owe a debt to our fore- 
 fathers, which we must liquidate by carrying on the work 
 that they commenced to its final completion, viz.: — the ulti- 
 mate freedom of all mankind to do right.'''' — W, L. Sinton. 
 
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WHITE CROSS LIBRARY. 
 
 By PRENTICE MULFORD. 
 
 Is a system of publication, showing how results may be 
 obtained in all business and art, through the force of thought 
 and silent power of mind. 
 
 VOLUME I. 
 
 You Travel When You Sleep, 
 
 Where You Travel When You Sleep. 
 
 The Process of Re-embodiment. 
 
 Ee-embodiment Universal in Nature. 
 
 The Art of Forgetting. 
 
 How Thoughts Are Born. 
 
 The Law of Success. 
 
 How to Keep Your Strength. 
 
 Consider the Lilies. 
 
 Art of Study. 
 
 Profit and Loss in Associates. 
 
 The Slavery of Fear. 
 
 What are Spiritual Gifts. 
 
 VOLUME n. 
 
 Some Laws of Health and Beauty, 
 
 Mental Intemperance. 
 
 Law of Marriage. 
 
 The God in Yourself. 
 
 Force, and How to Get It. 
 
 The Doctor Within. 
 
 Co-operation of Thought. 
 
 The Eeligion of Dress. 
 
 The Necessity of Riches, 
 
 Use Your Riches. 
 
 The Healing and Renewing Force of Spring. 
 
 Positive and Negative Thought. 
 
 VOLUME in. 
 The Practical use of Reverie. 
 Your two Memories. 
 Self Teaching; or the art ©f Learning how to 
 
 Learn. 
 How to Push Your Business. 
 The Religion of the Drama. 
 The Uses of Sickness. 
 Who are our Relations? 
 The Use of a Room, 
 Man and Wife. 
 
 Cure for Alcoholic Intemperance. 
 The Church of Silent Demand. 
 The Mystery of Sleep, or our Double Existence. 
 
" Thou great eternal Infinite; the great unbounded whole.- 
 Thy body is the universe, Thy spirit is the soul. 
 If thou dost fill immensity, if thou art all in all, 
 If thou wert here before I was, I am not here at all. 
 How could I live outside of thee ? Dost thou fill earth and air? 
 There surely is no place for me outside of everyvv^here. 
 If thou art God and thou dost fill immensity of space, 
 Then I am God, think as you will, or else I have no place. 
 And if I have no place at all, or if I am not here, 
 ' Banished' I surely cannot be, for then I'd be somewhere. 
 Then I must be a part of God, no matter if I'm small, 
 And if I'm not a part of Him, there's no such God at all." 
 
 — Ano7i, 
 
 " Love, hope, aud joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, 
 Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain ; 
 These mixed with art, and to due bounds confined, 
 Make and maintain the balance of the mind; 
 The lights and shades, whose well accorded strife 
 Gives all the strength and color of our life." — Pope. 
 
 " Ever at toil, it brings to loveliness 
 All ancient wrath and wreck." — 7?. Arnold. 
 
 FOUR CLASSES OF MEN. 
 
 " He that knows not and knows not that he knows 
 not, he is a fool; shun him. 
 
 " He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, 
 he is simple; teach him. 
 
 "He that knows and knows not that he knov/s, he is 
 asleep; wake him. 
 
 " He that knows and knows that he knows, he is wise; 
 follow him." — Author Unknoivn. 
 
 "To will what God doth will. 
 That is the only Science 
 Doth give us any rest." — Longfello-J: . 
 
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VOLUME IV. 
 
 The Use of Sunday. 
 
 The Drawing Power of Mind. 
 
 Grace Before Meat; or Science of Eating. 
 
 The Source of Your Strength. 
 
 What We Need Strength For. 
 
 One Way to Cultivate Courage. 
 
 The Material Mind vs. The Spiritual Mind. 
 
 Marriage and Besurrection. 
 
 Immortality in the Flesh. 
 
 Faith; or, Being Led of the Spirit. 
 
 Some Practical Mental Recipes. 
 
 The Use and Necessity of Recreation. 
 
 VOLUME V. 
 
 Mental Tyranny. 
 
 Spells; or, The Law of Change. 
 
 Look Forward. 
 
 Thought Currents. 
 
 Healthy and Unhealthy Spirit Communion. 
 
 Uses of Diversion. 
 
 Regeneration; or, Being Born Again. 
 
 Lies Breed Disease; Truths Bring Health. 
 
 God's Commands are Man's Demands. 
 
 About Economizing our Forces. , . „ , 
 
 God in the Trees, or the Infinite Mind in Nature. 
 
 What is Justice? 
 
 VOLUME VL 
 Woman's Real Power. 
 Love Thyself. 
 About Prentice Mulford. 
 Mental Medicine. 
 Prayer in all Ages. 
 The Attraction of Aspiration. 
 Cultivate Repose. 
 Good and 111 Effects of Thought. 
 Buried Talents. 
 The Power of Honesty. 
 Confession. 
 The Accession of New Thought. 
 
 These six volumes embrace and conclude the entire series. 
 The Swamp Angel. 
 Prentice Mulford's Story. (36 chapters— 300 pa 
 
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" Duty rises at first, a gloomy tyranny, out of man's 
 helplessness, his self mistrust, in a word, his abstract fear. 
 He personifies all that he abstractly fears as God, and 
 straightway becomes the slave of his duty to God. He 
 imposes that slavery fiercely on his children, threatening 
 them with hell, and punishing them for their attempts to 
 be happy. When, becoming bolder, he ceases to fear every- 
 thing, and dares to love something, this duty of his to what 
 he fears evolves into a sense of duty to what he loves. 
 Sometimes he again personifies what he loves as God; 
 and the God of Wrath becomes the God of Love: some- 
 times he at once becomes a humanitarian, an altruist, ac- 
 knowledging only his duty to his neighbor. This stage is 
 correlative to the rationalist stage in the evolution of philo- 
 sophy and the capitaHst*phase in the evolution of industry. 
 But in it the emancipated slave of God falls under the do- 
 minion of society, which, having just reached a phase in 
 which all the love is ground out of it by the competitive 
 struggle for money, remorselessly crushes him, until indue 
 course of the further growth of his spirit or will, a sense at 
 last arises in him of his duty to himself. And when this 
 sense is fully grown, which it hardly is yet, the tyranny of 
 duty is broken; for now the man's God is himself; and he, 
 self satisfied at last, ceases to be selfish. The evangelist of 
 this last step must therefore preach the repudiation of duty. 
 This, to the unprepared of his generation, is indeed the 
 wanton masterpiece of paradox. What! after all that has 
 been said by men of noble life as to the secret of all right 
 conduct being only ' Duty, duty, duty,' is he to be told now 
 that duty is the primal curse from which we must redeem 
 ourselves before we can advance another step along which, 
 as we imagine — having forgotten the repudiations made by 
 our fathers — duty and duty alone has brought us thus far? 
 But why not? 
 
 "The idealist higher in the ascent of evolution than the 
 Philistine, yet hates the highest and strikes at him with a 
 dread and rancor of which the easy going Philistine is 
 guiltless. The man who has risen above the danger and 
 
 •Morft Bcientiflcally speaking, monopolist. 
 
 56 
 
SPIRITUAL— Light Literature. 
 
 •• He who knows only one Beli&ion. knows noae."— Pbof. Max Mulleb. 
 
 "From Nature np to Law, from Law to Love, 
 This, the ascendent path in which we move, 
 Impelled by God in ways that lighten still. 
 Till all things meet in one eternal thrill." 
 
 —Bishop of Peobia, la " Means and Ends of Education." 
 
 David Elginbrod George MacDouald 
 
 The Elect Lady 
 
 What's Mine's Miue 
 
 Ardath Marie Corelli 
 
 The Sorrows of Satan 
 
 Les Miserables Victor Hugo 
 
 Dreams and Dream Stories Anna B. Kingsf ord 
 
 The Christian Hall Caine 
 
 Heavy Literatorc* 
 
 "To love is to live; 
 To love one's self is to live in Hell; 
 To love another is to live on Earth; 
 To love others is to live In Heaven; 
 
 To silently adore the self in all creatures Isto live in that telf which is 
 •ternal peace."— Bishop of Pxobia., in " Meane and Ends of Education." 
 
 " No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temper- 
 ate who considers pleasure the highest good."— Cicebo. 
 
 The Life of the Harp in the Hands of the Harper . . Schlatter 
 The Spirit Wrestlers or Doukhoborki... Vladimer Tchertkoff 
 
 John Woodman's Journal Whittier 
 
 History of the Quakers 
 
 The Light of Asia E. Arnold 
 
 Life and Love and Death B. Hail 
 
 Things as They Are " 
 
 The Story of the New Gospel of Interpretation .. E. Maitland 
 
 The New Gospel of Interpretation " 
 
 Civilization ; Its Cause and Cure E. Carpenter 
 
 Towards Democracy " 
 
 Emerson's Essays 
 
 Sartor Resartus Carlyle 
 
 The Way, the Truth and the Life • J. H. Dewey 
 
 The Pathway of the Spirit 
 
 Bhagavad Gita 
 
 ThePorfect Way, or the Finding of Christ. . . . A. B. Kingsf ord 
 
 Clothed With the Sun 
 
 Raga Yoga Lectures Swami Vivekananda 
 
 Magic White and Black Franz Hartmann, M. D. 
 
 Life of Jehoshua 
 
 Light on the Path Mabel Collins- 
 
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the fear that his acquisitiveness will lead him to theft, his 
 temper to murder, and his affections to debauchery : this is 
 he who is denounced as an arch scoundrel and libertine, and 
 thus confounded with the lowest because he is the highest. 
 And it is not the ignorant and stupid who maintain this 
 error, but the literate and the cultured. When the true 
 prophet speaks, he is proved to be both rascal and idiot, not 
 by those who have never read how foolishly such learned 
 demonstrations have come off in the past, but by those who 
 have themselves written volumes on the crucifixions, the 
 burnings, the stonings, the headuigs and the hangings, the 
 Siberian transportations, the calumny and ostracism, which 
 have been the lot of the pioneer as well as of the camp fol- 
 lower." — Bernard Shaw. 
 
 ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. 
 
 "Abou )^Q\\ Adhein (may his tribe increase) 
 Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, 
 And saw within the moonlight in his room, 
 Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, 
 An angel, writing in a book of gold: — 
 Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold. 
 And to the presence m the room he said, 
 
 *VVhat v^'ritest thou?' The vision raised its head. 
 And, with a look made of all sweet accord. 
 Answered, ' The names of those who love the Lord.' 
 
 'And is mine one?' said Abou: 'Nay, not so,' 
 Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, 
 But cheerily still; and said, 'I pray thee then. 
 Write me as one that loves his fellow men.' 
 The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night 
 It came again with a great wakening light, 
 And showed the names whom love of God had blest, 
 And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest." 
 
 — Leigh Hunt, 
 
 "We are born into conditions escape from which is 
 hopeless and continuance in which is intolerable." 
 
 5a 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 "May liberty meet wi' success, 
 May prudence protect her fra evil; 
 May tyrants and tyranny tire in the mist, 
 And wander tlieir way to the de'vil. 
 Here '3 freedom to him that would read. 
 Here s freedom to him that would write; 
 There's none are afeard 
 That the truth should be heerd, 
 But they whom the truth would indict."— Bubns. 
 
 "All nature Is but Art, unknown to thee; 
 All chance, direction which thou canst not see; 
 All disc^ord, harmony not understood; 
 All partial evil, universal good; 
 And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite. 
 One truth is clear. Whatever is is right."— Pops, 
 
 The Labor Annual 
 
 Finance and Transportation J. D. Miller 
 
 Hell To Pay Mayor Jones 
 
 President John Smith 
 
 Argument of Clarence S.Darrow in the Wood- Workers Con- 
 
 *^ spiracy Case 
 
 Live Questions Ex- Gov, John P. Altgeld 
 
 The State Carriage, with Chart Timewell 
 
 How to Get Rich Without Working E. Homer Bailey 
 
 The Rights of Woman and the Sexual Relation.. .K. Heinzen 
 
 My Confession, My Religion. Life Tolstoi 
 
 A Persian Pearl and Other Essays Clarence S. Darrow 
 
 My Soul and Winter's Laura Smith (Greer) 
 
 The Keys of the Creeds E. Maitland 
 
 Tales of Two Countries Alexander Kielland 
 
 Ten Tales Francois Coppee 
 
 The Day's Work Kipling 
 
 Harmonics of Evolution Florence Huntley 
 
 Dream Child 
 
 A Traveler from Altruria William Dean Howells 
 
 The Mystery of the Ages Countess of Caithness 
 
 The Soul of a People H.Fielding 
 
 Selections frem Geo. MacDonald, or Helps for Weary Souls 
 
 Hours With the Mystics. 2 vols, in 1 R. A. Vaughn 
 
 Dreams Schreiner 
 
 Adam's Peak to Elephanta E. Carpenter 
 
 Treasury of the Humble Maurice Maeterlinck 
 
 Wisdom and Destiny Essays, " 
 
 The World's Congress of Religions 
 
 Seven Creative Principles H. E. Butler 
 
 Message of the Mystics Mary H. Ford 
 
 The Spirit of the New Testament By a Woman 
 
 59 
 
A CURE FOR A CONSCIENCE. 
 
 There was a Man who was troubled with a conscience* 
 He felt that his life was not what it ought to be. There- 
 fore he resorted to the physicians He asked a statesman 
 if politics would agree with his conscience. The statesman 
 replied that conscience had a place in politics, but that, if we 
 followed conscience, we could accomplish nothing; for in 
 politics, obedience to the moral law is an iridescent dream. 
 
 " We must," he explained, "discover the best issue 
 presented, and vote for that, though it be not abstractly 
 right, else we shall throw away our votes. If we act thus, 
 we may not only serve the state, but attain to office." The 
 Man said, " I like not the morality of the politician." (This 
 Man was a dangerous man.) The Man then asked a high 
 priest if his conscience could be made useful, and the priest 
 answered: "Yes, man is nothing without a conscience — 
 on Sunday; on week days it were well for him to leave it 
 in church." The priest added, " The teachings of Christ 
 are counsels of perfection. If everyone would obey them 
 you also might do so, but here you must act as best you 
 can, and if you do your best it will be all right with you in 
 the next world." "But," said the Man,«I live in this world." 
 
 The Man asked a man of this world what he should do 
 with his unsatisfied conscience. The captain of industry 
 answered: " You would better put your conscience in cold 
 storage. The laws of business and the penal code embody 
 the moral law; you have only to follow them. If your 
 conscience is uneasy, smash it with the ledger and heap upon 
 it the revised statutes. So may you get rich." And the Man 
 with a conscience went away sorrowful, for he had much 
 conviction. Yet was the Man not discouraged. He asked 
 the theologians, and they answered variously: "If you 
 would have peace — believe," "sacrifice," "work," "fast." 
 And nearly all said "give," but not even one said "love." 
 
 Then the Man went to a prophet of God, and the 
 prophet said : " Seek first the Kingdom." The Man asked, 
 " Shall I get high ofiice thereby ? " " You will be a servant 
 
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POETRY. 
 
 "Poets are all who love who feel great truths. 
 And tell them; for the truth of truths is love. " 
 
 —Philip James Bailey. 
 
 "Love is the highest attribute of Deity; 
 And he who loves divinely is most blest. 
 It purgeth passion from the soul and sense. 
 And makes the man a unit in himself; 
 Head, eyes, hands, heart, al I woi k In unison. 
 And b«ast8 and savages, and rudesthinds. 
 All feel alike its exercise of power. 
 Ambition cannot walk with it; for he 
 Who learns to live and love aright, loves all, 
 Aad finds preferment in the general weal. 
 Though, Proteus like, it takes a thousand forms. 
 It doth o'ercome all evil with its good. 
 Casteth out devils,— sensuality, and sin. 
 And green-eyed jealousy, and hate; and like 
 Chrysostom, golden-m3uthed, itdoth attune 
 The words of common speech to swe<!t accord. 
 And give significance to simplest things." 
 
 —Lizzie Doten. 
 
 "O, my mortal friends and brothers! 
 
 We are each and all another's. 
 And the soul that gives most freely from its treasure hath the more; 
 
 Would you lose your life, you find it. 
 
 And in giving love you bind it 
 Like an amulet of safety to your heart lorevermore." 
 
 —Lizzie Doten. 
 
 Charles Mackie's Poems Lowell's Poetical Works 
 
 Burns' Poetical Works Rudyard Kipling's Poems 
 
 Lizzie Doten's Poems from the Inner Life 
 
 Walt Whitman's Poems Whittier's Poetical Works 
 
 Lewis Morris' Poems William Morris' Poems 
 
 Gerald Massey's Poems Sam Walter Foss' Poems 
 
 New Ballads, Ballads and Songs, by John Davidson 
 
 Fleet Eclogues, by Davidson Helen Jackson's Poems 
 In This Our World, by Charlotte Perkins Stetson 
 
 Young Ofeg's Ditties, by Ola Hansen 
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems 
 
 "The virtues of society are the vices of the saint."— Embbson. 
 
of servants." "Shall I get riches?" "You must leave all 
 to follow the light." « Shall I have quiet of mind? " « It 
 is written, 'I come not to bring peace, but a sword.' " "What 
 then do you offer me if I seek the kingdom ? " "I offer you 
 only love for men and the joy of the spiritual life." The 
 Man said: " The road to the Kingdom is dark." And the 
 prophet answered, " But the light is within you, for it is 
 written, * The path of the just is as a shining light, that 
 shineth more and more unto the perfect day.' " 
 
 — Bolto7i Hall. 
 
 BEWARE. 
 
 Have you always been respected by your neighbors? 
 
 Do they ask your advice on all important matters? 
 
 Do they all speak well of you and point you out as a 
 leading citizen and a pillar of society? 
 
 Has no one ever said that you were beside yourself, 
 
 Or called you crazy, or a crank, or a pestilent fellow? 
 
 Have you never been accused of associating with pub- 
 licans and sinners, or of stirring up the people, or of turning 
 the world upside down? 
 
 In short, are you thoroughly respectable? 
 
 Then beware; you are on the downward road; you are 
 in bad company. 
 
 Mend your ways or you can claim no kinship with the 
 saints and heroes which were before you. 
 
 — Ernest H, Crosby. 
 
The author and compiler invites correspondence on 
 the matters dealt tvith in this book and will be glad to 
 give advice as to course of readings also ivill get or give 
 informatioti tvhere the books recommended in these lists 
 can best be obtained. Enclose stamp for reply. 
 WALTER L. SINTON, 
 
 45 Rush Street, Chicago^ III, 
 
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Whatever I do I can neither feed 
 nor clothe my family nor take. part in 
 public affairs as a citizen nor speak the 
 truth as I conceive it without being 
 stained with the blood of my brothers 
 and sistei-s, without putting my hands 
 into the wickedness that prostitutes every 
 sacred national and religious function. 
 
 It is only the densest ethical ignorance 
 that talks about a " Christian business" 
 life, for business is now intrinsically 
 evil, whatever good may come out of it. 
 Whoever says that a man may live the 
 Christian life while at the same time 
 successfullv participating in the present 
 order of things is either profound in the 
 lack of knowledge or else he deliberate- 
 ly lies. There is no sucii thing as an 
 ethical bargain, for bargains are matters 
 of force, fraud and chance. There are 
 no honest goods to. buy or sell; adulter- 
 ated foods, shoddy manufacture of all 
 that we wear, the underpaid labor and 
 consumed life that make every garment 
 a texture of falsehood, the hideous com- 
 jjetitive war that slays its millions where 
 swords and cannons slay their tens — all 
 unite to baffle and mock the efforts of 
 the awakened conscience at every turn . 
 and make the industrial system seem like 
 the triumph of hell and madness on the 
 earth. — Prof. Geo. D. Herro?i. 
 
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