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CopyRIGHT, 1880.
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ORIGIN OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ORIGIN OF LIFE ITSELF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I3
THE LAWS AND RIGHTS OF LIFE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I7
THE GOVERNMENT OF HUMANITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
RESTORING RIGHTS TO THE PEOPLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
MONEY AND POLITICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
FINANCE AND COMMERCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
PAPER MONEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
INDIVIDUAL AND PARTY RIGHTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
WHAT CAUSED PROSPERITY, AND WHAT BROUGHT RUIN... 58
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
ORIGIN OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE.
IN the New York Tribune of January 21st, 1876
is an article headed, “Sectarian Candidates.” In
speaking of Mr. , as being qualified for the
nomination as a candidate for the Presidency of the
United States, after giving testimony of Mr. 9
S
descent on his father's side through the Presby-
terian faith, it suggested there may be a doubt on
account of his mother coming from a noted Ro-
man Catholic family.
This reasoning leads one to ask the question—
Through whom does the germ of man descend ?
The male, or female P What has that to do with
politics, you may ask? I answer;--because it un-
derlies the foundation of man's rights, as an indi-
vidual. Solve our first question, and the relation
it bears to all external objects for its development,
you will then see and comprehend man's Political,
Religious and Individual rights.
Is the public mind ripe for the discussion of the
momentous question? I think it is. Heretofore
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the discussions have been of a narrow, sectarian
or selfish nature, limiting man's rights by creeds
and arbitrary laws, enforced by brute power, di-
rected by intellect uneducated or not unfolded in
wisdom.
The discussion of how man's soul becomes in-
carnated in the flesh, must be a scientific one.
In order to get a correct view of man (I use
the word man, in its twofold sense, man and wo-
man) we must go back to first principles.
The first question occurring to the deeply re-
flecting mind is, what has caused the phenomena
I witness all about me and within me? The usual
answer has been God, which has not satisfied the
inquiring mind.
One inquires, who, where, and what is God?
and what is my relation to Him? From time im-
memorial there have been minds making such in-
quiries and seeking their answers. Through these
efforts and labors, which have been recorded and
given to the world, we can now give a much more
satisfactory answer to the questions propounded.
What was the first manifestation of Life or
God 2 I have no objection to the word God, to
convey the meaning of the all Pervading Creative
Principle, that acts through all extent, and is no-
where absent. The self-evident answer is, Motion.
What did he and she or this principle move?
The principle being male and female put itself
ORIGIN OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. 7
in motion upon chaos, (Darkness), out of which all
forms are evolved, and through these forms, all re-
sults proceed—from the fiery comet to the most ex-
alted Sun and planetary systems in the universe,
from the protoplasm to the most exalted archangel
in heaven.
From the simplest mote, to the grandest organ-
izations of worlds, this principle is found at work,
preparing the elements through which God can or—
ganize a form in His own image, a conscious living
soul—a child from Himself. If this is so man must
be Immortal.
Now what evidence have we to sustain this
view of God, or Brahma, or Ala, or Omi-to, or
Amida, or the Mighty Word, or call this prin-
ciple by any name you choose? Reason is One.
It is the same Creative Principle. In science, this
principle is known by different names.
Scientific investigators tell us, that there is not
the smallest particle of matter but that has its posi-
tive and negative sides, which acts as its attractive
and repellent powers, which keeps it in its individ-
ual form. Then again in its higher organization it
is known as the aggregative and segregating prin-
ciple; and under this name it is constantly at
work, and nothing new or old in the universe,
that appears, but is the result of its labors. Un-
der other names—Heat and Cold—God becomes
very conspicuous and all-powerful.
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From the combined labors of these three mani-
festations of God's power we have sensitive Life,
under the name of male and female, and under this
manifestation of God, man is evolved a conscious
Sentient Soul, in the Creator's own Image: which
is Love, Wisdom, and Sensation. Under this name
we give God our highest and holiest adoration only
by observing his laws in nature, as manifested in the
operation of this all creative principle, under its
various names, and morally applying them to our
every day life; thereby making it manifest what
God is, by unfolding in Love and Wisdom; and
through its manifestation, the kingdom of heaven
may be established upon earth.
These first or general principles being true, what
is our manifest duty, to ourselves, our neighbors,
the government, and the all Loving Wise Father
and Mother, God. -
Life implies labor; labor gives experience; ex-
perience begets or develops Love and Wisdom, and
when we possess them in perfection, we have be-
come as the gods, or like unto God.
What was the second manifestation of God P
First was motion. Evidently, it was organization.
What was the object of organization ? It was
threefold. First, sensation. Second, the refine-
ment of matter. Third, the manifestation of Love
and Wisdom, in a finite form.
I think all scientific and reflecting minds con-
ORIGIN OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. ‘9
cede that the first manifestation of Life or God was
motion, and that the second was organization. Ad-
mitting then that these answers are correct, in what
way or order and manner has organization pro-
ceeded, in order to develop conscious sentient
beings P
The Infinite Principle put itself in motion, broke
infinitude in particles; these particles, each of ne-
cessity containing its portion of the Infinite Prin-
ciple, commenced to revolve around or about each
other, manifesting the positive and negative prin-
ciple, developing the centripetal and centrifugal
forces, attraction and repulsion, and they again the
aggregative and segregative forces. Motion having
developed heat and cold, formation begins to take
shape in suns and planets and planetary systems,
held together by this all permeating and ever pres-
ent Love and Wisdom principle.
Thus coming down to our own little footstool,
the earth, and interrogating and examining her in
her growth and development as recorded in her
mountains, oceans, rivers, walleys, fossils, vegetable
and animal life, we may be able to see what posi-
tion man stands in, in relation to nature and na-
ture's God, and toward his fellow-man.
Matter exists? Did it create itself? Impossi-
ble. All we can know about it is its forms, com-
binations and manifestations, in and through it.
Mind and power exist! Did they create them-
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selves? They are coequal with God. Did matter
create them P No ; because they control matter,
and organize it into forms of life and uses; so as to
individualize the God Principle, Love and Wisdom,
in the form of man.
Man therefore has the power and mind to in-
quire into all the manifestations of the Father and
Mother God Principles. These principles and laws
I wish to be kept steadily and firmly in mind; for,
by them all things that are, and are to be, are
created, or formed. And, in order to sustain this
position I shall draw from nature about us and
within us, and from recorded facts, as observed by
the various scientific minds of all nationalities.
One of the great difficulties to overcome in a
treatise on this subject, is the notion that soul or
mind is but a chemical resultant of matter: whereas
it is co-eternal with matter, and distinct from earth-
ly matter, and superior to and above it, and uses
matter to manifest itself. Otherwise you might as
well say that all organization of matter, is for the
purpose of creating matter: whereas matter is only
organized for the purposes of developing uses. Uses
signify the operation of mind upon matter; and
all uses are for the purposes of sensation ; and what
but life can take cognizance of sensation 1 And life
itself is but an evolvement from the all creative Soul
of the Universe.
One of the first manifestations of Deity is heat
OR/GAAW OF THE PRINCIPAEA OF LZAZE. II
and cold. By and through them the Universe was
and is unfolded and unfolding. Each sun and planet
is expanded and condensed by them.
In what manner did cold and heat act upon
chaos ? Take the word chaos to represent unpar-
ticled matter; and the word creation to mean for-
mation, it will give a rational view and conception
of the phenomena of nature. In this sense I shall
use those words.
Can any mind conceive of one, much less of va-
rious and innumerable kinds of sensations, without
organization? I answer, No. It is self-evident,
that to produce sensation, there must be action—
motion; and for a variety of sensations, there must
be a variety of organizations.
Can there be any sensation without heat or
cold P I answer, No, not in a gross material body;
and yet the extreme of either will destroy all sensa-
tion pertaining to life in a material earthly body.
Extreme heat is known to expand and destroy all
earthly forms. And cold to condense, consolidate
and give form. The two harmoniously acting in
concert, give life and form to all things. Each in
its turn builds up, and destroys. The extreme
heat of the noonday sun evaporates the water from
the face of the earth, and heats the atmosphere
and loads it with the vapors from the oceans, lakes
and rivers, and carries it up to old Boreas, or the
cold region where it is condensed, and returned to
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the earth in the form of snow, hail, rain and the
pearly dew-drop; bringing down with them the
ammonias and life-giving qualities of the atmos-
phere in a soluble form, so they can be absorbed by
vegetable and animal life-germs, that they may
build up their earth forms, and through those forms
reproduce their own life-germs again. Can analyt-
ical chemistry detect life in air, water, or earth;
and tell us what it is P *
In order to build up these earth forms, in all the
beauty of shades and colors, it requires the heat and
light of the sun, and the cold and darkness of night,
Light and Darkness are equal.
All life-germs are conceived in darkness, and
germinate and continue to grow, alternately in
darkness and light, until the death of the earthly
form.
Darkness is full of forms. Light is the revela-
tor of forms and their uses. If these statements are
true, then Light and Darkness must be Eternal.
So, if a form is revealed by the light, can it be
so hid that it cannot be again found or seen P I
answer, No. They are from eternity, and once re-
vealed they cannot be hidden. Their earthly form
may pass from view, that is all; for, if light and
darkness is eternal, so must all forms be eternal.
For that which comes from eternity, cannot pass
out of eternity.
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Here let me make a statement of these Princi-
ples. Thus:
ETERNITY.
HEAT—LIGHT = REVELATOR x x LOVE.
COLD-DARKNESS = FORMS x x WISDOM.
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Is the above statement true? If so, what must
the conclusions be: but that Man was in etermity
with God, and his Individuality is now revealed on
earth as a sentient being; a child of Deity.
HI.
ORIGIN OF LIFE ITSELF.
THE chemist, with his alembic and retort, must
use heat and cold, which are his chief agents in all
his chemical experiments in reducing materials into
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various compounds and fabrics. They are ever
present in all of man's experiences, and he can-
not exist without them, neither can any form of
matter.
Yet there is a something in man which we call
Mind, that can control heat and cold in such a
manner as to control matter, and form it and re-
form it in thousands of conditions, and cause it to
do much of man's labor; and again can annihilate
the earthly forms, till there is not a vestige of them
to be found. As an example, I refer to the explo-
sion of the nitro-glycerine in the brick building
at the entrance of the tunnel being constructed
through Bergen Hill by the Del. Lac. & W. R. R.
Co., which so completely destroyed the bricks that
not a particle could be found; yet no scientific man
would affirm that the matter of which the bricks
were composed was annihilated and driven out of
existence.
Though man can so use heat and cold to de-
stroy the visible appearance of matter, he does not
and cannot destroy matter. Doubtless if he had a
perfect knowledge of heat and cold, he could develop
all forms and conditions out of matter.
Heat and cold, light and darkness, cannot be
separated so far as to be independent of each other.
One could not be manifest without the other. Who
can tell where one commences, and the other ceases.
They never separate. Like spirit and matter, soul
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and force, love and wisdom, law and principle, -
Male and Female=God. One cannot be or exist
without the other. They cannot be made manifest
without union. And for any manifestation of power
and intelligence, there must be a duality of action as
well as a duality of quality to act. To illustrate, in
mathematics there is an odd and an even number;
one is odd, it is a whole; you cannot express any
mathematical problem with it, but divide it and you
have the even. With the two, and their multiples,
you can express any mathematical problem in the
universe. So with the male and female principle—
God. It is attraction and repulsion, it is positive
and negative, it is the centripetal and centrifugal
force; and in its first and last, and most powerful,
manifestation, is that which is known in earthly
matter as heat and cold.
Cold and positive represents the male principle.
Heat and negative the female principle. These
principles must be equal in power to make one
balanced whole—God. And in all the manifesta-
tions of this power, it exhibits wisdom and love—
God in His spiritual realm—which interpenetrates
all material domain and so fills the universe of
spirit and matter. Thus he has so prepared matter
that He could and has out of it created Man in his
own Image—“Male and Female created He them.”
Then why wrangle ye one with another about
earthly riches and homes. Your homes are not
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merely here on earth. God is spirit, your homes
are with the Father in spirit life.
God is the centre from which all things unfold.
Just how that is done, is yet a mystery; but we
have some facts and principles and knowledge of
the laws of life and matter, by which we may open
the mystic doors of justice and liberty, and learn
much more. Man having been created by God in
his own image, we must have outrolled from the
centre of the All of spirit and matter,
As shown by the varieus manifestations of the
laws of nature, man, in his in most nature, must be
the product from the inmost power and principle
that created the universe, and is a particle and
germ of the Infinite Power. Therefore he has the
power and principle within him, to unfold in all the
beauty of the Infinite, through absorption and
growth in love and wisdom—growth by acquiring
knowledge and wisely applying it to loving uses ;
thereby traveling back through all manifestations
of the loving Father and Mother God, who dwells
in the inmost of the universe. As we must have
been in Him through the eternity of the past, we
have all of eternity to return to Him in the future,
III.
THE LAWS AND RIGHTS OF LIFE.
WE have endeavored to indicate the origin of
man, and from the argument deduce that he will
return to the source from which he came ; not,
however, as a germ, but in the form of a God-man.
But there is a period of existence between the
coming and the going of each individual being,
which directly and immediately interests us all.
This is his period of individuality —of ego—where
he stands alone, apart and free, if ever. And here
arises the inquiry, what are the natural rights con-
ferred by this period of individuality and freedom P
First—To life, and the elements to sustain life—
air, water, and the fruits and products of
the earth.
Second—To be educated in the duties of life.
Third—To liberty and justice, in the pursuit of
happiness.
Under these three divisions of man's rights all
of his privileges, duties, and obligations to his Cre-
ator, himself, and fellow-men, can be fully discussed.
Before we consider what the governments of men
should be, let us glance at the physical growth of
man—his development into the world, and so pos-
sibly get a more correct view of man's inalienable
rights.
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Let us start with infants, one, male, and the
other, female, and watch their development until
they grow up to maturity. We find they both are
fed on the milk drawn from the mother's breast.
Here let me call your attention to one important
fact; that the child must put forth the effort and
draw the nourishment from the mother's breast,
to develop its body; so also must it put forth effort
and draw and take in knowledge, to develop the
mind—with this difference however—the mind will
not cease to grow until it has taken in all knowl-
edge.
This process must go on, until their stomachs
get strong enough to receive the fruits and pro-
ducts of the earth. They continue this process of
placing food in their stomachs, day by day and year
after year, until they arrive at the age of puberty.
What took place with the food that went into
their stomachs P Why, it decomposed under me-
chanical and chemical processes, by which the fruits
and products of earth were converted into bone,
muscle, blood, nerves, brain, fluids and various tis-
sues, in fact every distinct organ in the human
body. And each organ has its peculiar functions
and uses to perform in the grand cosmical body of
man. Who conducted and presided over that la-
boratory, the stomach, to convert that fruit of the
earth into brain, eyes, etc., and give every organ a
specific use, and duty to perform 2 Could it be any
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other than God, by and through those principles I
have enunciated P
Let us observe the two children, grown up to
manhood and womanhood—they unite or blend in
wedlock, and the result is, the divine principle (male
and female) has individualized itself, through the
human form, into a concious self-entity, or soul.
All men are created, by and through the same
laws of nature; consequently it is a truth, that all
men are free and equal to life, liberty and justice.
And if they have that, happiness is the resultant.
What now are the logical rights of man as con-
stituted by the laws of nature. We have shown
above, that his life was evolved by and through the
operation of nature's laws, and lastly, by partaking
of the fruits and products of earth ; and, for its
maintenance in the earthly form, he must continue
to partake of the fruits and products of the earth.
Therefore he has a natural right to as much of the
earth's surface as will supply his wants, and without
price. When he has as much as he can use, he has
no right to any more. If he does take any more,
he is a usurper of that which is not his, and com-
mits a wrong, next to the greatest that man can
commit against his neighbor; which is to take his
life. Do the constitution and laws of the United
States acknowledge and protect each individual cit-
izen in these his inalienable rights P No. Then
why not at once commence to formulate laws which
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will afford such acknowledgment and protection ?
There is no reason why we should delay in com-
mencing to pull down crude organizations, and
building up a finer, grander, and a nobler form of
government, capable of sustaining man in harmony
with his inner life, and his future destiny.
Are not the life-principles continuously exist-
ent P Yes, and as eternal as God.
By what signs do we know this? By progression
in nature; growth and decay; construction and de-
struction—you cannot have one without the other.
That which to-day is a great calamity, to-morrow is
converted into a greater blessing than the calamity,
by an increased knowledge. The blessing—the
growth—could not have come to us, only through
the calamity. There is no such thing as perma-'
nent retrogression in the laws of nature. They
constantly have a forward, upward and refining pro-
cess in their cycles. Their apparent retrogression
is not real, but a temporary process in the refine-
ment of material, in order to build up a more glori-
ous and beautiful organization, so as to give purer
and more refined qualities.
IV.
| THE GoverNMENT OF HUMANITY.
LOOK at humanity to-day, as it is manifested
in Europe and the United States of America. We
have no history of any people at any age of the
world, that possessed so many harmonious instru-
ments for the production of melodious sounds.
In no nations of people in ages gone by, did the
people possess the knowledge to use heat to pro-
pel the steam-engine, or electricity to annihilate
space, and bring us, as it were, face to face in con-
versation with people in different hemispheres.
And yet the power of heat was always the same.
And the lightnings flashed and thunders rolled and
muttered in human ears, as now?
Where, erst, were the men to confine the heat
and train it to do man's work, to propel him over
land and sea; or to cage the lightning and bid it
carry his messages, from continent to continent,
under the oceans, and over the mountains 2 They
had not been born. Neither could they be born
until God, through determinate laws, had so refined
matter, as to make the brain or thought element of
man sensitive enough to receive the impression of
the power of heat and electricity—and the mode, or
methods of applying them to so useful purposes.
And as the laws of nature are as illimitable as God
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is, surely we may hope, and can expect still greater
development of man's powers in grasping the laws
of harmonious government, by which men will be
brought into better harmony with each other.
And yet when one man was so developed as to
conceive the idea of a steam-engine, or telegraphic
communication, or a photograph, and demonstrate
each, how rapidly were they multiplied and utilized
all over the world. They gradually revolutionized
our modes of communicating with distant friends;
and in all manufacturing and commercial relations.
Shall we stop here?
We cannot if we would. This revolution must
go on, until our government and laws are thor-
oughly revolutionized, and made to protect the in-
dividual in his natural rights, and administered so
as to sustain him in the constant enjoyment of
them. Then, and not till then, can we have peace
on earth and good will to all men.
Can such a constitution be framed, and laws
enacted to protect man in his individual and social
rights? Yes; I think so. The Creator never created
an organization without a compatible and equitable
law to control it.
It is man's duty—not only a duty, but an obli-
gation for being created in the image of the Cre-
ator—to find out the laws that control matter, and
all organizations of matter. Then he becomes con-
troller of matter; and in harmony with the laws
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that control the organization of matter and mind,
he can control mind and matter.
Where, in nature, shall we find the model for a
constitution and laws, to govern the people of the
world P−This nation particularly P
• In the organization of man himself, we will find
the constitution and the laws that control it. Man
is the most multiform and complicated organization
on earth. Let us study it until we comprehend it,
in part at least, and then imitate the Great Archi-
tect, as far as we are able, to frame our constitution
and laws in harmony with man's being. When that
is done the kingdom of heaven will be established
upon earth. And the laws will not be changing
and unstable as the wind; but will be as perma-
nent like the laws of nature ; and anarchy and con-
fusion will cease and be no more.
When I speak of the human body as the model
for our government, constitution and laws, I speak
of it correspondentially. The human body is made
up of simple and complex organs, and each organ
has its particular function and work to perform.
Does not the very thought of them, and the func-
tions and work they perform, suggest to your
mind the necessary departments, their functions
and work to perform in the government of the
people?
To be a complete government, it should have a
department to correspond to every functional or-
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ganization in the human body, to perform a corres-
ponding duty for the people as the organ does for
the human body.
Let us examine some of these organs in detail.
The first in order is the land department, the bureau
of the interior; corresponding with the Stomach.
What are its duties? It should see to securing to
every citizen enough of the public domain to make
his home upon, and to draw his subsistence for
himself and family: also, to establishing schools for
children and adults. “Do unto thy neighbor as thou
would have him do unto thyself,” would be fulfilled.
These schools are the primaries to prepare the chil-
dren for the higher departments of education. They
are the mouth and stomach, which commences to
prepare the brains that sustain the nation.
The next important department, or organ, is the
Heart; partially represented by the treasury de-
partment. The blood is the builder-up of the
body; it furnishes every department of the body
with the peculiar material to sustain it in its spe-
cific duties. So should the treasury department
sustain the nation. In order to do so, the govern-
ment should own the avenues of commerce, such
as railroads, canals, etc., and the locomotive en-
gines upon the railroads, and allow the people to
place their own cars upon the roads, as it does
boats upon the canals and rivers, and charge so
much per mile for moving them; and in that way
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regulate commerce, and raise revenue for the pub-
lic schools and colleges. The government should
have no responsibility except to deliver the cars at
the point designated by the owners. This should
also be one of the departments of education.
The next important department is the post of.
fice, to correspond to the Nervous System, which
would, properly be called a bureau under the con-
trol of the department of the Head; as it has no
distinct organization separate from the head. It
brings to the head all that transpires without, and
carries the orders and communications that the
head and legislators have to make with all parts of
the nation. Therefore the telegraph and post-routes
should belong to the government, and the revenue
from it should go to support the most advanced de-
partment of education. —What this department
should do for the people, we will discuss when we
consider the department of the Head. So also the
observatory—the Eyes.
The Liver, and Kidneys should come under the
educational department of chemistry; which we
have not in our present form of government.
Neither have we one of the most important de-
partments in the whole human system.
The vivifying department, the Lungs should
be a system of colleges, for the recognition, and in-
vestigation of all and every kind of phenomena that
may present itself to the minds of men; and eluci-
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date the same, if possible, for the benefit of the
people, so as to free the mind from superstition and
error. These colleges should be open to all who
have qualified themselves by passing through the
lower grades of schools and departments of edu-
cation.
A very important section should be the bureau
of paternity—the organs of Reproduction. No chil-
dren growing up under this Government should be
allowed to marry until they have been instructed in
the nature of the high and holy duties of parent-
age, and the effect their acts and lives will have
upon their offspring. Mainly through the instru-
mentality of such an education can we expect a
speedy development of harmonious governments.
Next in order is the organization of Bones and
the organization of Muscles and Skin. These or-
ganizations are for the support, defence, and protec-
tion of all the other members of the Body, which
we have very properly and strongly represented in
our present Government by the two secretaryships
of the Army and Navy.
Now comes the Head, and its contents: that
controls and directs all the other organs in the
structure, and yet it cannot itself act independ-
ently of them.
Do not the three divisions of the brain sug-
gest the two houses of congress and the executive
—and the ears, the judiciary; to hear and decide all
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mooted questions? And at the same time they
suggest, that the executive, legislators, and the ju-
diciary, and all heads of departments and bureaus,
should only be selected from those who have passed
through the department of the Lungs—colleges—
and made themselves thoroughly acquainted with
the laws of nature and of man, and who cheerfully
and morally submit to the control of them, as made
manifest in their every-day life.
V.
NATURAL INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
THUS I have given a brief suggestion, in what
manner the Government of the people of this na-
tion (and of the world, if you please) should be con-
stituted.
Now as to the laws to be made and executed—
what should they be 2 They should be as plain
and simple as breathing, eating, and drinking are.
Should the Constitution of the United States
(1) be changed and amended ? and if so, (2) in what
respect.
(1) Yes. (2.) In respect to the changes and
amendments, the constitution does not, in the first
place, state clearly what the natural rights of Man
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are ; which it should do. And then, the laws should
be made to sustain them, and protect the Individual
in the natural use of them impartially. No char-
tered privileges should be granted to a firm of in-
dividuals, directly or indirectly, that could not be
enjoyed by as many as choose to accept of them.
We have shown that all men are born free and
equal to life, liberty and justice in the pursuit of
happiness; and that man was created without being
consulted, with wants which are necessities to him ;
and that the supplies were placed in the earth, to be
had only by man's labor. Therefore, every man is
entitled to as much of the earth's surface as he can
use, and no more. When he has placed his labor
upon that land, no law, nor any process of law,
should be able to take that home from him. His
labor is his against the world, and at his disposal as
he sees fit, unless he commits a crime against his
fellow-men.
Man (male and female) was created, and is, a
social being. This law of the Individual's nature
as a social being, does not destroy his homestead
right to the soil. It does not destroy the right of
Individuals to associate together and join their
rights to the land as homesteads, under such rules
- and regulations as the wisdom of the age may de-
velop to be the best and truest mode to unfold the
Individual up into the wisest and noblest Man-
hood, and Womanhood, thereby doing away with
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contentious grasping, overreaching strifes, and de-
vastating wars.
There should be, and Congress should pass, a
law prohibiting the sale of the public lands, or giv-
ing it away for any other purpose than a home to
actual settlers. And that which they have so un-
righteously given away to railroads, and others
in large quantities, they should repossess to and
for the nation, and hold it for actual settlers, and
assist the needy citizens to, and upon, it. By
this means the Government would relieve the cities
of their overburdened population, and place them
in a position of self-supporting manhood, freed
from the debasing influence of pauperism and
strife for a mean subsistence. They would be-
come a strong support to good society and the
nation. Such a law should be passed at once, au-
thorizing the Department of the Interior to move
and send out any family that wishes to go out
upon the public lands and open a homestead;
and appropriate the means to do it; and then fol-
low the emigrant with teachers and establish
schools to educate them and their children.
By these means our cities would become puri-
fied and freed from pauperism, alms and soup-
houses. Jails and penitentiaries would be turned
into manufactories and workshops, instead of the
abodes of wretched and disgraced human beings.
Grant to man his Natural, Inborn Rights to as
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much land as he can use, to draw his substance for
self and family, without the power of any law to
deprive him of it, and crime would very rapidly
disappear from amongst the people.
Depriving man of a free home on the soil IS the
foundation error that leads to all others. We can-
not be justified in making a law to punish a man
for the violation of a law, when in the first place we
have made laws depriving him of his natural born
rights, or, in other words, “Inalienable Rights.”
Thus one of the duties of the Department of the
Interior could and should be carried out, and fur-
nish aid and support to all other departments of
the Government.
From the chemical laboratory of the Stomach
department, chyle ascends to the Heart—Treasury
Department—to be converted into blood. In order
to do that, it is directed to the department of the
Lungs—college department—to be vivified into
arterial blood, and sent back again to the heart, to
be sent out, and to build up and sustain the whole
body without partiality. This, then, suggests that
legislators and executive officers, elected or ap-
pointed to office or to positions as teachers, should
pass through the department of colleges before
they could be eligible to those positions. It still
further suggests the duties of these legislators and
officers. As the blood is sent out to build up and
sustain every bone, muscle, tissue, ganglion, etc., in
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the whole human system, so should the legislators
and teachers educate the children and students in
their duties to themselves and the Government—
not a partisan government but a scientific one,
which secures each individual in the enjoyment of
natural rights to life, liberty and justice, the ulti-
mate of which is happiness.
Let us recapitulate a little. The system of the
heart corresponds to commerce, whose duties are to
carry the products of labor, of earth, and the peo-
ple, to the consumers. The channels through
which it is transported—in the nation—are the
rivers, canals and railroads, corresponding to the
arteries, veins and ducts of the human body through
which the blood—food—is conveyed to sustain and
build up each and every organ of the body, even
to the granules of the epidermis. Connected with
this double department of the treasury and edu-
cation—the heart and lungs—there should be three
bureaus or departments of chemistry, under three
distinct duties. First, the bureau of analytical chem-
istry. Second, the bureau of synthetical chemistry,
corresponding to the duties of the liver, glands of
the mouth, stomach and kidneys, which would be to
analyze everything that goes to assist agriculture,
manufactures and commerce, and the best modes
to build up, and to put the information in such form
that the people could be benefited by it. Third,
the bureau of propagation, or anthropology. The
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duties of this bureau is one that embraces the high-
est and holiest knowledge that can be given to the
people. It is, how they can, and should improve
their offspring. When the young arrive at the age
of puberty, and before they marry, they should be
fully instructed in the sacredness of that high and
holy relation, and how their own condition of mind,
body, estate and surroundings will affect their
offspring. If we expect (which every American
does) to ultimately produce a nation of the most
grand, noble, intelligent, wise and lovable race of
Men and Women on Earth, we must study and in-
struct the People how. This bureau would come
more particularly under the department of educa-
tion.
In considering the department of the Head—or
congress and the executive—we find the brain di-
vided into three distinct departments or sections,
and an appendage, the medulla oblongata. The
cerebrum is divided into two hemispheres; who
make all the laws to be sanctioned by the pons
varolii, or Will power, and executed through the
cerebellum and medulla oblongata. When we note,
in our investigations, the functions and duties these
organisms have to perform, the delicacy of tissues
and fibres, and the power and force they gen-
erate, and effects they produce, we may well stop
and ask, What is the duty of Congress and the Ex-
ecutives?
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In its Members it needs the highest knowledge,
wisdom, and justice in the nation. The work to be
performed, is to make the conditions such that all
people can enjoy and possess themselves of the
means of growth—mental and physical—and happi-
ness. Herein lies the highest and holiest duty man
can perform on earth to God and his fellows—by
establishing laws, and departments to execute the
same, in harmony with nature's laws.
Let me briefly call attention to the Army and
Navy. The duty of the navy, in addition to protect-
ing commerce, should be to ascertain from all other
nations and countries, the nature of their products,
their qualities and uses, and bring home specimens,
and to ascertain what of our productions could. be
exchanged for them, and give the information to
the people, through the Secretary of the Navy. The
Army should attend to all surveys of railroads and
canals, the rivers, and all channels of commerce,
The arms and instruments of war must be turned
into the arts and implements of peace.
In this department (the Head) we have to study
man in his higher nature, as mind, spirit and soul, as
manifested in the organization of the head. Dr. T.
S. Lambert, very justly says, in his “Systematic
Human Physiology, Anatomy, and Hygiene,” page
34, “The head, composed of walls and their con-
tents, may well be called the capital of the body,
since the mind is there enthroned in the midst of its
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legislative halls, its courts, its audience-rooms, and
its executive chambers, fortified as in a citadel,
with its picket-posts for observation on the very
outworks. It is also truly the head-member of the
body, containing within itself the hints of what is
required of all the rest. The ear and eye suggest
the desirability of information, the nose speaks of
the importance of air, the mouth argues for water
and food, etc. The USES of the HEAD, not its po-
sition nor its structure, give it prečminence; in-
deed, its uses give it its position and structure.”
How closely we should examine the contents
and organization of the head, that we may select
the proper persons, with varied qualifications, so
as to make a complete organized government, qual-
ified with wisdom to make laws in harmony with
the natural rights of mind, and with power and
will to equitably administer them. On closely ex-
amining the brain we find it composed of the most
refined and sensitive matter; so organized that it
can recognize the most delicate touch, and each
convolution of the brain stands as an individual,
with certain duties to perform in connection with
others. In its organization we find it in communi-
cation with all the other organizations, even to the
nails on fingers and toes, and hairs on the head and
skin, through the Nervous System. In fact, the
nervous system is but an extension of the brain;
it is its roots and branches extending to the utmost
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bounds of the body, and we may say through the
eyes, nose, and ears, to the ends of the earth, and a
good portion of the heavens above us.
Here we can clearly see that the telegraph sys-
tem should belong to the Government. If the brain
is so sensitive, and so refined, what ought the mind
to be that is selected to fill so important a position
as to declare what man's natural rights are, and so
organize a government with constitution and laws,
fully protecting and educating him in the uses and
duties of them? In the first place, they should be
men strictly moral in its fullest sense, above party
influence or public opinion, strictly conscientious in
performance of duty, well educated in the laws of
nature and mind, of sound judgment, and not pre-
judiced in creeds or dogmas, but open and free
to receive truth in whatever form it may present
itself. -
How intimately connected with the head is the
Blood system is plainly seen, but its organism and
organic power of action is separate from the head.
Yet it is under the control of the head—the cere-
bellum. It carries the material to the brain to repair
and supply its earthly wants, as it does to all other
parts of the body. Does it not suggest that trade
and commerce should be regulated by Congress,
and the channels through which trade and com-
merce flow should belong to the Government, par-
ticularly the railroads and canals, all under the
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control of the Treasury Department, and it subject
to the head—Congress.
As the blood flows freely to every department,
and in sufficient quantities to build up and sustain
every granule and organization of granules in the
human body (corresponding to personals and asso-
ciations), so should the Government, through this
department, furnish the people with the necessary
means to obtain all the supplies requisite to support
life, liberty, and a progressive happiness.
Money corresponds to the blood in the veins.
Blood represents every kind of material in the
whole human system; so money represents every
kind of labor and material in the nation. So there
should be a supply equal to the demand, as there is
in the system of the heart, and kept in active cir-
culation through the channels of agriculture, manu-
factures, trade and commerce, and money should not
be under the control of any corporation or set of men,
other than the treasury of the whole nation, for its
issuance and circulation. There should be enough
of it to do away with all credit.
Then there could not and would not be any
more failures to distress whole communities and
the entire nation, as it is now. The few rich may
say, the nation is not in distress. I am willing to
affirm, and do affirm, without fear of successful con-
tradiction, that seven-eighths of the people are suffer-
ing in mind from losses of property and shrinkage
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of values, and for the necessary comforts of life, and
a large portion in great distress for the want of
means to procure the necessaries to subsist upon—
no home, no land to draw subsistence from, no em-
ployment to earn it. A lamentable picture, but a
true one—a lasting historic disgrace to our past
and present legislators of the United States, and a
warning forever after to the people, to be very
careful not to solicit ambitious, selfish and ignorant
men to represent them in the legislative halls of
the nation. Ignorant in this, that they did not
know that any law passed by them for the benefit
of the few to the exclusion of the many, was a
great injury to the many, to themselves and their
posterity. It is a direct law against liberty and
justice.
I do not write this of our legislators to condemn
and judge them guilty of a deliberate and wilful
wrong-doing, but, that they were not wise and in-
telligent enough to choose the right course. If they
had chosen the right course, the people would not
have been in so deplorable a condition. Our con-
dition of embarrassment and distress, is an evidence
that they were not wise.
VI.
RESTORING RIGHTS TO THE PEOPLE.
FROM what has been shown in the first part of
this discussion, that all men came into being with
the same rights, it is our privilege and our duty to
claim and demand them, through the ballot-box.
The people must wake up from the dark night of ser-
vitude to kings, priests, tyrannical rulers, dogmatic
creeds, and unrighteous laws, learn what their nat-
ural rights are, assert them, and work for them, un-
til they are secured to us and our posterity.
The greatest effort put forth by most men, has
been to lay up earthly riches, which cannot pass out
of earthly conditions; and when they place their af.
fections upon it, it holds them in an earthly con-
dition in the after-life, for the evident and plainly-
to-be-understood reason, they had not laid up in
their minds any knowledge of their spiritual nature,
which is the only wealth they can take with them.
Consequently they cannot have affection for that
that they know so little about; for, “Where your
affections are there will ye be also,” it being an
acknowledged fact that the seat of the mind is in
the head, and the greater amount of knowledge he
draws and receives into his mind and wisely applies
to moral uses, the larger and more extended lib-
erty and enjoyment he controls, because his affec-
tions are placed upon well-doing.
RESTORIAWG RIGHTS TO THE PEOPLE. 39
Therefore it is, and should be the highest aim
of Government to educate the people in the laws of
nature, and rationally and wisely apply them to
every-day life; thereby they would, through these
laws, walk directly through eternity to the Father
and Mother of all immortals.
It is not my intention in writing these things to
state just how the organism of the Government
should be constituted, only to make some sugges-
tions for the people of this nation to meditate upon.
. It is not the province of one man to make a gov-
ernment, it requires the combined wisdom of the
nation.
Let creeds and dogmas be laid aside, and im-
mutable principles be studied and applied in their
proper relations, and they will soon lead the nation
up out of the labyrinths of woe and disquietude.
The laws once established upon these principles
would be stable and permanent, and would not re-
quire amendments and substitutions; and the only
duties of Congress would be a watchful care over
the executive departments, that their duties were
promptly, faithfully and wisely performed. It may
be—and properly—asked, how will we do away with
the present laws in the division of the land, with-
out creating anarchy and confusion? But—how
did man get possession of them, and continue to
hold possession ?
I think there is a better and more peacable way
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than force or violence, in returning to and accept-
ing nature's laws, in regard to landed property and
exclusive franchises. Monopolies can—will—yet
learn how to render back to the people that which
was taken from them.
Just how it can be done, will be and must be
discussed before the people, that they may be edu-
cated in the methods of peacefully returning to the
natural laws of government. Then they will accept,
cheerfully and peacefully, the laws and methods
necessary to attain the desired condition.
VII.
MONEY AND POLITICS.
WHAT is money? It is an instrument of writ-
ing, made by the authority of the people through
their representatives. The Congress and President
of the United States declaring: This is one dollar,
five, ten, twenty, one hundred, or any number of
dollars they wish the instrument to be, making it a
legal tender for the nation, No matter what ma-
terial this instrument of writing is printed upon, it
is the authority and will of the people that consti-
tutes it money; and as money it is of equal and
MONEY AND POLITICS. 4I
practical use and value. There should be enough
of it in circulation to do the entire business of the
nation, without any individual credits, the same as
the blood does in the human body, and the distri-
bution amongst the people should be done by the
Government the same as letters are carried, and a
puniform charge for doing it, the same as there is
upon letters—not that the Government should be-
come the custodians of the people's money, except
to receive and deliver it to points desired. The
Government, owning the railroads and telegraphs,
could do it with much less risk than private com-
panies. They would have fire and burglar-proof
cars, and no one allowed upon them but their own
employés. Under such a system there could not
be a stagnation in business of a national character,
only a temporary local one, of a very short dura-
tion if at all. &
This system would preclude speculation upon
credits, consequently no one would be hurt in case
of failure, but the man that was reckless enough to
enter into a speculation. All speculations are based
on injustice, consequently work an injury to some
one. That system should be banished from this
nation. Love and Wisdom dictate it.
This system does not array the poor against the
rich, or the rich against the poor; but on the con-
trary harmonizes them, placing each in his proper
relation, making each contented and happy in his
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mutual relation and dependence upon each other,
in doing good, and continuously bettering each oth-
er's condition. There cannot be a discount on such
a state of relationship. Neither will there be, when
men are wisely selfish enough to establish laws to
sustain and maintain these principles.
As to Political Parties, What do the people
owe to them 2 They are not under any obligation
or duties to them. The only duty and obligation
the people are under, are to themselves. When
they neglect this fact, and give allegiance to a party
as an organized independent party, above the peo-
ple's rights, they commit a great wrong, behead
themselves, and give the party leaders an oppor-
tunity to rob them of their rights and virtually en-
slave them. And to prevent this, it is the duty of
the people, in each legislative, senatorial and con-
gressional district, to canvass their districts and as-
certain who recognize these principles, and avow
them, are honest and qualified, and to select such
men and send them to the halls of legislation, in-
dependent of all parties, excepting the inalienable
rights of the people. When we do that, we will be
protected against all lobbyists, ring-robbers and
political knavery.
Voters of the United States, it is in your power,
it is in your hands—through the ballot-box—to rec-
tify, purify the Government and laws, and make
them protect each individual in his inalienable
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rights. Will you help do it? It only needs courage
and perseverance, and it will be accomplished. Do
not wait for your neighbor to act, but each one act
for and from himself, and you will soon find you are
acting in concert with the largest party that was
ever called together in the United States; and that
for a righteous purpose.
VIII.
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
THE articles which appear hereafter I wrote
originally for the columns of the Evening Courier,
Daily Advertiser, and Essex County Press, of Newark,
N. J., where they appeared a few years ago; and,
with slight revisions, I give them place here because
the present condition of the times and country make
them of even more importance and value than when
they were first printed.
Finance is the management of money, to meet
obligations, and the consideration of money itself.
what it is, what it should be, and its legitimate func-
tions in the operations of commerce and trade.
The first thing, then, is to ask and consider what
is our present money. I reply, It is a compound of
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gold and paper, made so by enactments of Congress,
one part of it with two qualities of value or use to
it, the other with but one. Gold has an intrinsic
value in itself as a fine metal, incorruptible by the
elements, besides the value attached to it by the Act
of Congress, making it money, to measure the quan-
tity and quality of labor (here let me say that all
things that have any commercial value is labor. I
will have more to say about labor). The other pa-
per (engraved paper) has but one quality. The en-
actment of (the people's) Congress authorizing it to
be issued in two forms or parts, $400,000,000 to be
legal tender for all claims, except duties on imports
and interest on public debt, which are issued by the
Treasury of the United States. The other part,
$350,000,000, if I mistake not, is issued by, or to
incorporated banks, secured by the bonds of the
United States, and are promises to pay on demand
in legal tender notes of the United States Treasury
(which you will perceive is making them of a little
inferior value to the legal tender notes). This the
people did willingly receive as money, and it has
admirably answered the purposes of trade and com-
merce, demonstrating its powers to completely ful-
fil all the uses of money if properly issued by the
Government. (I speak of the paper money.) We
will now consider the functions of money, Money
is the standard by which all commodities are
measurgd in value, the representation of wealth
FINAAVCE AND COMMERCE. 45
(not wealth), by which wealth is conveyed from one
to another. The representative of all kinds of la-
bor—through whose means one kind of labor can be
converted into all other kinds of labor. To be ca-
pable of concentration in a close and compact form,
ready for use at all times, under all emergencies,
and when it does that, it performs its highest mis-
sion. In view, then, of the functions of money I
have given above, what ought money to be that it
could perform all those duties. In the first place,
let us consider the defects in our present money,
if it has any, which I claim it has.
First. Gold has three great defects:–1. It is
too bulky and heavy, causing it to move too slowly
in its transfer from one to another, and too expen-
sive in transporting it from one locality to another.
2. It has an intrinsic value as a metal, which
causes it to be perverted from its legitimate use as
money, and is not recovered back into money again,
consequently changing the quantity of money in
the country, thereby raising or altering the stand-
ard value of money. 3. There is not enough of
it to do the business of the country.
Secondly. The objection to the present legal
tender notes is, it is a promise to pay, implying it
is not a full and complete representative of labor—
here, again, let me say, I use the word labor to
mean everything that is bought and sold, except
promissory notes.
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Thirdly. The objection to the National Bank
notes is still more serious and fatal, because they
are a promise to pay in legal tender notes and are
under the control of local corporations, subject to be
withdrawn from circulation at any time by the
whims of individuals—thereby creating panics in
trade by the severe shrinkage of the standard meas-
ures that represent labor (articles of commerce and
traffic).
The result is failures and great distress, severe
and fatal losses to individuals that are not over-
come in a lifetime, disturbing the whole body politic
of the nation. Therefore the objection to the
present monetary system of this nation is real, be-
cause of its painful and distressing results to indi-
viduals and the nation at large. Can we have a
better monetary system of this country? I answer,
Yes. One that will not be ebbing and flowing at
the caprice of individuals or corporations.
This brings us to consider what money should
be and how to create it. In the first place, money
should be a sure and steady handmaid to commerce
and trade within the nation—our commerce with
other nations should be strictly an interchange of
commodities, to insure prosperous and happy results
—never shrinking out of sight or reach, but ever
ready to meet the ebb and flow of commerce, winter
and summer, and should be in sufficient volume to
meet all the demands of trade and commerce, and
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confine it (trade and commerce) to a very narrow and
short credit, and yet not cripple it in its full tidal
flow. Our money should be confined to but one
simple use, and made that it could not be con-
verted to any other use—that use is to measure the
value of labor or commodities. In order that it
shall be a sure and permanent standard, there should
be a specified amount put in circulation—sufficient
to meet the needs of trade and commerce—that
could not be withdrawn from circulation without
notice and consent of the people.
The voice of the nation, as expressed in the
Constitution of the United States, has delegated the
power to the Congress of the United States to create
and regulate the monetary system of the nation.
Therefore let Congress at once create paper dollars,
in the same manner they did by authorizing devices
to be stamped on gold and calling it money—so let
them authorize paper to be printed in the highest
art and skill science can devise, and call it money,
regulating the bills in denominations from five cents
to one thousand dollars, in amount equal to the debt
of the United States, and make them legal tender
for all claims both private and public, and abolish
all laws making other kinds of money not in con-
formity with this act. Hereby doing away with at
least two-thirds of the use of gold in this nation,
which reduces it to an article of commerce, none
the less valuable to pay the balances of trade that
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may be against us with other nations. And now the
problem comes up, how to get the money in cir-
culation, and the Government receive its full value
for it, and not disturbing its own or the commu-
nity's obligations.
The Government is largely in debt to our own
people, and to the people of other nations, on which
they are paying heavy interest, and taxing the
people to pay it, which is a heavy burden for the
people to bear. A large portion of these bonds are
due at the option of the Government, five years
after their date, consequently a large portion would
be and should be paid, and stop the interest and
reduce the taxes. If the holders of the bonds are
not willing to receive the legal tender notes in
pay (because the bonds call for gold) then let the
Government go into the market and buy cotton,
grain, flour, etc., and send it (in Government ves-
sels) to England and Europe, sell it for gold, and
pay in gold all those that wish gold. Gold no
longer being money in this nation, what would the
people do with it, as two-thirds of its use would be gone
in this country, therefore two-thirds its value. The
use of any article is the value thereof. Therefore in
proportion to its usefulness is its value. Hence, the
value of the legal tender paper money of this Gov-
ernment—if Congress make it the only legal tender
money in the nation, it will give it great value, be-
cause it will be the only legal standard to measure
AºAAWAAVCE AAVO COMMERCE. 49
the value of labor. Objection may be raised, that the
volume of currency is too large, that it will flood
the country with unredeemable paper money. I
answer, Motso; because every time a person receives
it in exchange of labor (I use the word labor in its
broad sense) redeems it, in such articles of use and
convenience as will satisfy his wants ; what more
can he ask 2 The larger the volume of legal tender
money in circulation the nearer we can reduce all
our business transactions to cash payment, and do
away all credit, and if there is no credit there can
be no panics, and no overtrading or wild speculations.
It certainly will help that “good time coming.”
If the love of money is the root of all evil, may
not money be the root of all good P I think so.
Now, let us consider the amount that should be
put in circulation, not subject to be withdrawn with-
out consent of the people, and the reason for so
placing it at the will of the people, whether or not
it should be withdrawn. I will place the amount at
nearly or quite the amount of our public debt, in
order to stop taxation and the great expense of
collecting it, say $2,500,000,000.
By this means there would be a stability in our
circulating medium that the business man could
make his calculations with a degree of certainty not
heretofore attainable, as the circulating medium
will be in the hands of business men, and not sub-
ject to corporations or bankers for their expansion
50 AVD/VZZO UAZ RAEGA/TS.
or contraction. Commerce and trade will be the
masters of their own situation, and not banks and
stock-jobbers. In order to stop wild speculation
Congress should pass a law to check credits, by recog-
nizing the rights of every man and woman to a home,
and not subject to be taken away from them by any
process of law. Then, if they are credited, it should
be at the reputation of their honor mostly.
In order that we may now fully comprehend the
necessity of having money, in a much larger volume
than we ever have had it, and that it is a creation
of art, and always has been, we will now take a
view of commerce. In order to get a comprehen-
sive view let us ask: What is its underlying foun-
dation, and what it is, and for what purpose it has
been created 2 The underlying foundation then of
commerce, I answer, is man's wants and necessities.
Man being created (without being consulted whether
he would be or not) with wants, these wants being
necessities, and the supply placed in the earth, there is
therefore a constant labor going on by Mature in the
earth to supply these wants, and in order that man
may be benefited by the labor of Nature, there is a
2ncCessity of man to reciprocate the labor of Nature
by his own labor. Therefore his life is dependent
upon labor. Consequently labor dignifies his life.
Man's true aspiration is to taste and know of all the
labors of Mother Nature and Father God. And in
order to do so, he puts forth his own powers and
FIAWAAVCE AAWD COMMERCE. 5.I
labor and gathers in the labors of nature, tastes
and fashions it into articles of use and beauty, and
through and by which commerce is established,
showing, as above, all that men can enjoy is labor or
the fruits thereof. Therefore, the necessity of an
interchange of labor and the necessities of creating
channels and means, by and through which labor
can be conveyed from one location to another, also
an article (which we call money) to represent the
value of labor. The transportation of the labor of
nature or art (man's labor, I call art) from one lo-
cality to another, is properly called commerce, and
the interchange of commodities (labor) is trade or
merchandising. From this view of commerce and
trade, it is easily seen and comprehended, the hin-
drances and obstructions in the way to check its
steady and even flow to meet the wants of men.
And as man is ever growing and developing into a
higher condition, his wants and necessities increase
in a proportional ratio. Therefore the necessity of
laying deep and broad the channels of commerce
and the means to conduct it. As money is in our
view only the representative of labor, it can easily
be seen that when man parts with his labor he must
have something left in its place to represent that
labor; if there is not, then there is injustice done
to that person, and so to the soil also.
Does not nature punish the man who takes a
crop from his field (or does he not rather wrong
52 IAWDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
himself), and does not return its equivalent in inor-
ganic matter? I think it does; but how can he if he
has not the inorganic matter? So with the merchant
or trader when he receives the labor of others and
does not give them an equivalent for that labor, he is
not only doing the laborer a wrong, but doing a great
wrong to himself. His note of hand is not an equiv-
alent, never can be, because it is not a legal tender for
all kinds of labor; but when Congress issues its legal
tender notes, it is the note of hand of every man,
woman and child of the nation, and is an agreement
by them to take it at sight for everything in the shape
of labor they have to spare. And all they ask of
Congress is, to be sure and take and legitimately
use or hold the full value of every dollar they issue
to the people. Now, then, need the people be afraid
of their own notes of hand when they hold the full
value of those notes, and have that value in full use
for the benefit of the people P say, for illustration,
an internal canal, connecting the interior with the
oceans, or a railroad. Thereby creating a sufficient
volume of money that when labor is taken up its
representative can be left in its place, thereby doing
away in a large degree with two great nuisances—
individual credits and lawyers.
The people delegated to Congress the power
and authority to create money for convenience and
benefit of the people, then why not do it when
there is such a demand for it; not only a demand
PAPER MoME Y. 53
but an absolute necessity, the opportunity and the
pressing wants of laborers and producers of wealth,
call so loudly for it. The laborers and producers
of wealth are no longer willing to credit capitalists.
Congressmen, are you not called upon by the vows
you took upon yourselves to fulfil the obligations
of your office, as representatives of the people, to
make laws to protect them in their individual rights.
We, the people, will hold you accountable to us if
you do not do your duty in this respect. Herein
we have pointed out and suggested that which we
wish to become law and a reality.
NEwARK, N.J., 1874.
IX.
PAPER MONEY.
IN discussing this question of money it is most
eminently proper to understand the object and use
of money. And when it is so made as to perform
all the uses for which it is made, unfalteringly, with-
in the nation, then it will be the very best money
the people can make. Now to the question, What
is the object of making money P I answer, It is to
measure the quantity and quality of labor and com-
modities, and to convey the title of the product of
54 AVZ)/ V.F.D UAE. RIGHTS.
labor and commodities, from one to another. That
I claim to be the only and entire mission of money.
Then the question is, Who has the right to make this
money? The Constitution of the United States de-
clares the people alone have that right through their
representatives, the Congress of the United States;
they alone have the right to coin money and regu-
late the value thereof.
Our fathers, when framing the Constitution,
undoubtedly used the word “coin" in its simple
sense, which Webster defines, “to fabricate, to make,
to forge, etc.,” and also says that, “gold, silver, cop-
per, and other metals, can be converted into money
by impressing on it marks, figures or characters.”
Thus we see that gold and silver is not money
without the authority of the people's stamp upon it.
The people, then, have the same power and right to
authorize paper to be printed and engraved, and
the value designated upon it, and it becomes money
by the same authority that gold and silver does. It
is a hundred times more convenient, and a thousand
times more advantageous to the people as a nation.
The question may be, and is often asked, How can
Congress make paper money of any value, when
there is no value comparatively in paper? I an-
swer, By attaching uses to it. It is usefulness that
makes anything valuable, and that only.
As the people only have the right to make
money (in this country, and only for this nation) let
PA PAEA’ MOAVE Y. 55
them agree how much is needed to do the business
of the country, and have it printed on paper, in
manner, the highest that art and skill can devise,
and make it legal tender for all purposes in business,
for Government and people. And the law authoriz-
ing it to be made, so framed that the amount author-
ized could not be increased or withdrawn from cir-
culation without the consent of the people, through
a vote submitted to them. Then there could not be
a failure in our money, because it is the nation's
money, and cannot fail until the people cease to be
a nation. This money will measure the value of
gold and silver, just as readily as it will a bushel of
wheat. If other nations are foolish enough to re-
main in the shadows of the dark ages, and continue
to worship the golden calf of the Jews, under the
form of gold coined money, let them remain there.
It will make the product of our gold and silver
mines worth so much the more, by their making
use of it to print their money upon. Then, in order
to gratify the golden calf worshipper in this and
other countries, receive at the mints, from all who
wish to have their gold and silver assayed, and cast
in any form desirable, and have the weight printed
upon it, in grains and pennyweights, or ounces and
pounds. These pieces would answer all the pur-
poses of paying the balances of trade with other
nations, also the bondholders, if they desire gold.
Then if the gold was sent out of the country it
56 JAV/O/ VVD UAZ RAGAZ7'.S.
would not disturb any of our business relations.
By not using gold and silver to print our money
upon, does not make it less valuable or available to
pay our bonds or the balance of trade with other
nations, if we should happen to have balances to
pay. Now, if the people of the United States be-
come wise enough to take a step in advance of
the customs of the barbarous ages (in using a
cumbersome commodity to measure labor and
convey title to it, instead of art and science), and
print our money on paper, and make it permanent,
uniform and always come-at-able, commerce and
trade will spring up, and our productions will be-
come so abundant and desirable that we shall be
able to make every nation on the earth contribute
to increase our wealth.
The Constitution of the United States says
there shall not be any class legislation; then why
shall we tolerate class legislation by Congress in
making laws in favor of the gold and silver miners ?
It certainly does so when it declares so many
grains of gold and so many grains of silver shall
be one dollar; it certainly establishes the price
of the products of those mines. Why not
have Congress declare what a pound of iron or
lead or a bushel of coal shall be worth. Just as
proper or improper to establish the price of one as
the other. One more reason why paper money
made by the authority of the people is better than
JAWA)/ VIDUAL AAWD AAR 7"Y RIGHTS. 57
gold and silver money, is, that whatever amount of
money they possess they have that amount of in-
terest (if no more) in the stability and permanency
of the nation.
X.
INDIVIDUAL AND PARTY RIGHTS.
CANVASSING the duties and obligations of in-
dividuals to a party, and of parties to the individu-
als, and also to other party organizations, I find
that individuals have certain inalienable rights, and
that parties have only certain definable rights; in
a certain sense inalienable, which are conferred and
transferable. Regarding the inalienable rights of
the individual, I have asked myself the question,
“How much of my individual rights do I merge and
submit to the party I may join P’’
I answer, only as much as is called for by the
constitution and laws of such party. Therefore, in
view of the rights of individuals to form themselves
into a party, they have a right to say how that in-
dividual shall become a member of that party, and
what he shall surrender to that party by becoming
a member of it, and what protection he shall receive
from it.
58 AVD/VIDUAL RIGHTS.
One of the inalienable rights of the individual
which should not be surrendered, is his honest con-
viction of that which is right, and his right to prop-
erly express his convictions, in language not abusive
to his fellow-men.
Is it just, in forming and building up a party for
the protection of individual rights, to admit to its
structure an organized party, who have a definite
end and aim of their own P. No 1 for they will work
corruption in the party, in order to carry their
own ends and aims to a consummation. Therefore
I hold the only way to build up a strong, pure, per-
petual, living, growing party, is to lay its foundation
upon the God-given rights of the individual, and
that will attract the individual to the party, and
thus the party will grow by individual aggregation,
until it shall overshadow the whole land and be a
blessing and a protection to every citizen.
YI.
WHAT CAUSED PROSPERITY, AND WHAT
BROUGHT RUIN.
IN searching for the cause of national distress,
I find it necessary first to ascertain the reason for
our business prosperity. The rebellion of the
WHAT CAUSED PROSPERITY AWD RUIM. 59
Southern States forced the Government to become
a very large consumer of the products of labor.
The demands of the Government set the producers
at work throughout the length and breadth of the
land, and they could not labor without consuming
the products of labor. They consequently de-
manded and received of the Government the equiv-
alent of their labor, which was money, exchange-
able for any and all products of labor which they de-
sired to have. Therefore the Government—that is,
the chosen representatives of the people, acting for
them—having the power, under the Constitution,
to fabricate or coin money, authorized, by act of
Congress, the Treasurer of the United States to
have certain devices engraved and printed upon
paper, stating the value of each piece of the same
in dollars and cents, and made it a legal tender in
the place of gold and silver. This enabled the
government to pay the producers. Necessity
forced this method of making money, and it has
proved to be the best ever issued by this govern-
ment.
Now let us see if this last statement is correct.
In order to judge of its merits fairly, examine into
the history of the business of the country from the
year 1854 to 1877, and note its fluctuations, with
the cause of the same. Mr. W. L. Fawcett, in his
Handbook of Finance, page 125, makes this state-
ment: “Upon the presumption that the New York
6o JAV/X/ V/O UAZ /º/G 77S.
bank clearings, exclusive of the Stock Exchange
business, represents nearly twenty per cent. of the
total volume of payments in commercial transac-
tions in the United States, we may estimate the in-
crease of traffic in the United States by the increase
of bank clearings in that city.”
The amounts I give here below are taken from
his statement on the same page, for each year end-
ing September 3oth, and this amount should be
multiplied by five, in order to get the full volume
of merchandising in the United States. In 1854
it amounted to $5,750,455,987; in 1855 it decreased
$387,542,889. From that time forward it com-
menced to increase, and in 1857 it amounted to
$8,333,226,718. In the fall of that year the banks
suspended specie payments, in consequence of which
the business of the country fell off nearly one-half
in one year, only amounting to $4,756,664,386, a
difference of $3,576,562,332. Remember all these
amounts must be multiplied by five, to obtain the
real extent of the disaster to the producing
classes.
Inasmuch as all merchandise is the product of
labor, who, but the producers of merchandise and
the dealers in it, were the losers of this $3,576,562,
332 P Merchants, mechanics, agriculturists, and
laborers—the producers and exchangers of wealth.
This terrible loss was in consequence of the failure
of the banks to pay gold (the humbug of the world)
WHAT CAUSED PROSPERITY AWD RUIM. 61
and silver for their paper bills—their promises to do
an impossible thing.
Now I will show the increase of business and
the cause of it. In 1858 some of the States legal-
ized the suspension of specie payments, which re-
stored confidence, and in a short time the banks
resumed again. They resume only when their
specie is not wanted. Immediately business revived
and steadily increased up to the 30th of September,
1860, when it reached the sum of $7,231,143,056.
In 1861 the rebellion of the Southern States caused
another suspension of the banks to pay gold and
silver, and business again receded to $5,915,742,758.
Dulness continued until February 25, 1862, when
Congress legalized the suspension of specie pay-
ments, and authorized the issue of legal tender
paper money (greenbacks) which restored confi-
dence, and business immediately revived. At the
close of September 30, 1862, it reached the unpre-
cedented sum of $14,867,597,848, and the next year
it went up to $24,097,195,914. This continued up
to 1869, when it reached the magnificent sum of
$37,407,028,986 (five times that amount). The
result of this grand business prosperity was sub-
stantial happiness to all the producers of wealth.
The poor man's daughter could appear in public as
neatly and beautifully clad as the rich man's daugh-
ter. And this because her own skill and industry
was in demand by all.
62 AVD/VIDUAL RIGHTS.
But alas! this gave offence to selfish rich men.
The difference between the rich and the poor was
not noticeable enough. They set themselves the
task of reducing the producers of wealth from com-
fort and happiness to poverty and starvation. They
have accomplished it, and how P I answer, by their
old trick of procuring the passage of laws to with-
draw the people's money from circulation and de-
stroy it—which was money based upon the entire
wealth of the nation (gold and silver included),
and issued by the authority of the people. Now
these men propose paper money based upon gold-
only, and that under control of soulless corpora-
tions, called banks, and these banks governed by
avaricious men.
What is the result P. No answer is needed from
me. It is upon us, and every man, woman and
child sees and feels it. In 1870 business had
dropped down to $27,804,539,405, and in 1874 to
$20,850,681,962.
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pearl, rest under scented coverlets of half-
blown roses, feast upon table cloths of
water-lily petals and drink from dishes of
carved coral. Fairy-queens form gs,
mermaids comb their beautiful tresses,
water-sprites throw wreaths of foam, rein-
deers galopade in a mad quadrille, an
omes pass refreshments of distilled
honey-dew, and sweet snow-cakes.-Mil-
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Scrap Books, and How to Make Them.
Containing full Instructions for making a Complete and
Systematic Set of Useful Books. By E. W. GURLEY.
ğ. extra, 12mo. In Press.
EXTRACT FROM AUTHOR'S “INTRODUCTION.”
Our life is a living Scrap Book. & © e e tº
And what a book! Here a gleam of Poetry, there a long
dreary stretch of Prose, now the tragedy of an Accident—
nothing to the world, but a calamity to him—then a ripple of
Fun, a dash of Sentiment, a thrill of Joy, a pang of Grief.
The man of highest attainments, whom the world calls thor-
oughly educated, knows he is nothing but an animated Scrap-
Book. A smattering of the Languages, a little of Mathematics,
a glimpse of Science, a few of the odds and ends of Nature,
jumbled together and pasted in mosaically—this is all, and no
one knows it better than he. g º g o o
CONTENTS.
IX. AND NAMEs or Books.
THE BOOK.
For PASTE, &c.
A PRESS—ILLUSTRATED.
AND INDEXING THE Book.
OF INDExEs.
PAGES OF Scrap-Books.
HomE AMUSE-
I. INTRoDUCTION,
II. My ExPERIENCE. X.
III. WHY Should we MAKE Scrap- | XI.
Books 2 e
IV, WHO SHOULD MAKE SCRAP-Books f | XIII.
W. GATHERING THE MATERIALS. XIV.
VI, SELECTING THE ARTICLEs. XV.
VII. CLASSIFYING THE ARTICLES. XVI.
VIII. PREPARING THE ARTICLEs. MENTS.
ExTRACT FROM “WHY SHOULD WE MAKE SCRAP-Books 2 ''
In Franklin's day there were two newspapers in America;
now there are about 8000 periodicals of all grades, constantly
flooding the land with a stream of intelligence. Much of this
is ephemeral, born for the day and dying with the day; yet
scarcely a paper falls into the hands of the intelligent reader in
which he does not see something worth keeping. * *
ExTRACT FROM “WHO SHOULD KEEP A SCRAP-Book 2 º'
Every one who reads . . g e g º g g
Jefferson was in the habit of collecting, in this form, all the
information bearing on certain points in which he was interested.
Sumner was an habitual gatherer of Scraps, and found them
invaluable aids to even his vast field of information.
It is said of another noted Congressman that he dreaded an
opponent of much inferior powers, because the latter was a care-
ful compiler of Scrap-Books, and thus had a fund of knowledge
which the more brilliant man did not possess.
President Hayes is also a practical believer in Scrap-Books,
and has already a large collection.
EXTRACT FROM “GATHERING THE MATERIALS.”
tº º Look at every old paper, almanac, circular and scrap
of paper before throwing it away. It will astonish you to see
how many things people trample under their feet which should
be put into their heads.



THE AUTHOR's PUBLISHING COMPANY's DESCRIPTIVE LIST. 39
Spiritual Communications.
PRESENTING A REVELATION OF THE FUTURE LIFE, AND
ILLUSTRATING AND CONFIRMING THE FUNDAMENTAL DOC-
TRINES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. Edited by HENRY
KIDDLE, A. M. Cloth extra, 12mo, 350pp...... . . . . $1 50
This is no ordinary book; indeed, it contains the most startling revelation of
modern times. What the eminent educationist and author commenced as an in-
vestigation into certain remarkable psychological phenomena, brought to his
notice in a very singular manner, has culminated in the wonderful record pre-
sented to the public in this volume.
STARTLING REVELATIONS 1 FACTs ATTESTED !
While it is a most important addition to the literature of Spiritualism, the
growth of which is, perhaps, the most amazing fact of our times, it is far more
than this. It comes as a tocsin of the New Jerusalem, an evangel of “Peace
and good will toward men, a herald of the “Resurrection of the world,” and
the “Second Coming of Christ.” The internal senses are opened The de-
parted return Dead and living clasp, hands ! Men and angels speak together!
The selestial clirtain is rolled back! The natural and spiritual worlds stand face
to face |
This is no exaggeration. The book attests it all as a reality; for it is no mere
speculation, but the record of living facts; the logical evidence to support
which may be briefly stated as follows:
1. That it comes through the wonderful gifts of one of the purest, simplest, and
most truthful of minds
2 That it has received the careful investigation of a man of ripe intellectual
culture, distinguished for scholarly attainments, sound practical common sense,
and purity of personal character, whose whole life has been a rigid mental train.
ing, and whose successful career in the field of education has reflected the highest
credit upon himself, and bus brought honor to the City of New York both at
home and abroad
3. That the teachings and tendency of the book are spiritually or religiously
of the purest and sublimest character. No man, whatever may be the char-
acteristics of his mind or religious faith, can ever rise from the candid perusal
of this book without becoming a purer and better man.
4. That the internal evidence comprised in the communications themselves,—
so vast in their scope, so various in their style, so startling in their statements—
is so indubitably plain that he who runs may read and understand. To no book
ever written, except the Sacred Scriptures themselves, are the well known lines
of Scott so applicable :
“Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries ;
# k + k & # * * * * * *
And better had they ne'er been born
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn "
ILLUSTRIOUs MESSENGERS FROM OTHER WoRLDs.
Here, with the voice of inspiration, speak the spirits of the departed—the
illustrious of earth, –Shakespeare, Byron, Shelly, Bryant, Poe, Washington,
Lincoln, Bacon, Newton, etc., etc.; the personages of sacred history—Moses, the
Prophet of old, St. Peter, St Paul, St. Augustine, Pontius Pilate, etc.; Christian
ministers of various denominations, Luther, Calvin, Bishop Ives, Archbishop
Hughes, Pio Nono, Dr Channing, Theodore Parker, Bishop Janes, Dr Muhlen-
berg, etc., and the Seer Swedenborg Here speak to us the spirits of blissful
spheres; and here also the spirits of the sinful and erring come, and tell their sad
experience, as a lesson to mankind
The bright spheres and the dark world are here, in part unveiled to mankind,
so that they may choose between them. But in every page of this wonderful
volume, the infinite goodness and mercy of God and the love of our Saviour
Christ are shown with flashes of heavenly light-
No notice can give any adequate idea of the character of this book, which, it
is not saying too much to declare, contains an evangel that is destined to travel
the world over.
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The Mystic Key. A Poetic Fortune Teller.
With 300 quotations from over 80 standard authors. Ar-
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side, beveled boards, red edges, cloth extra, sqr. 32mo,
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1. What is your Character 2 6. What is your favorite Flower 1
2. What is your Chief Attraction ? 7. Who is your Intended ?
3. What do you Like Best ? 8. What is the character of your Intended?
4. What do you Dislike Most $ 9. What is your Destiny ?
5. What is your highest ambition? 10. Where will your Home be?
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It is adapted for a room full of company.—Cin. Times.
The amusement is quite a pretty, one.—Buffalo Courier.
Will shorten many a º; winter's evening.—Cin. Gazette.
Is prepared with a good deal of tact and judgment.—Boston Transcript.
The idea is unique, and is carried out in a delightful manner.—Record, Phila.
The game might be improved by having each querist tell from what poem each re-
sponse is taken.—Daily Press, Phila. e
A great many valuable texts can be fixed in the mind well worthy of remembrance,
while mirth and good fellowship flow naturally from the aptness of the quotations.—
Inter-Ocean, Chicago.
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evincing not only good sense, taste and nice discrimination.—Daily Saratogian, N. Y.
The arrangement is very novel and ingenious, and it will be a seen at once what a
wide range of reading the author had to undertake in order to carry out the idea which
she has so beautifully elaborated. For instance, the first inquiry in the book is :
WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTEB ſº
To which these, among many others, are answers:
TA rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun,
To relish a joke and rejoice in a pun.—Goldsmith.
T IS YOUR CHIEF ATTRACTION ?
A form so fair, that like the air
"Tis less of earth than heaven —E. E. Pinkney.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST
A sly flirtation by the light of a chandelier.
With music to play in the pauses,
nobody very near.—Willis.
WHAT Do You DISLIKE MOST 7
“To make the fire, fry the cakes,
And get the table spread I.”
whAT. Is You B HIGHEBT AMBITION ?
To #. to church to-day
To look devout and seem to pray,
And ere to-morrow’s sun goes down
Be dealing slander through the town.—Mrs. Sigourney.
who IS YOUR INTENDED 7
A hungry, lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller,
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch.-Shakspeare.
what Is Youh DESTINY }
Never wedding, never wooing,
Still a lovelorn heart pursuing.—Campbell.
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