¶ There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

¶ The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

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ment in this world by the crime of woman. What

a gallant thing that is! And if it is true, I had rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in Heaven with nobody but men.

¶ I read in a book—and I will say now that I can not give the exact language, as my memory does not retain the words, but I can give the substance-I read in a book that the Supreme Being concluded to make a world and one man; that He took some nothing and made a world and one man, and put the man in a garden. In a little while He noticed that this man got lonesome; that he wandered around as if he were waiting for a train. There was nothing to interest him: no news; no papers; no politics; no policy; and, as the Devil had not yet made his appearance, there was no chance for reconciliation-not even for civil-service reform. Well, he wandered about the garden in this condition, until finally the Supreme Being made up His mind to make him a companion.

¶ Having used up all the nothing He originally took in making the world and one man, He had to take a part of the man to start a woman with. So He caused a sleep to fall upon this man-now, understand me, I do not say this story is true. After the sleep fell upon this man, the Supreme Being took a rib, or as the French would call it,

a cutlet, out of this man, and from that He made a woman. And considering the amount of raw material used, I look upon it as the most successful job ever performed. Well, after He got the woman done, she was brought to the man -not to see how she liked him, but to see how he liked her. He liked her, and they started housekeeping; and they were told of certain things they might do and of one thing they could not do-and of course they did it. I would have done it in fifteen minutes, and I know it. There would n't have been an apple on that tree half an hour from date, and the limbs would have been full of clubs.

¶ And then they were turned out of the park and extra policemen were put on to keep them from getting back. ¶ Devilment commenced. The mumps, and the measles, and the whooping cough, and the scarlet fever started in their race for man. They began to have the toothache, roses began to have thorns, snakes began to have poisoned teeth, and people began to divide about religion and politics, and the world has been full of trouble from that day to this

¶ Nearly all of the religions of this world account for existence of evil by such a story as that!

¶ I read in another book what appeared to be an account of the same transaction. It was written about four thousand years before the other. All commentators agree that the one that was written last was the original, and that the one that was written first was copied from the one that was written last. But I would advise you all not to allow your creed to be disturbed by a little matter of four or five thousand years. In this other story, Brahma made up his mind to make the world and a man and a woman.

He made the world, and he made the man and then the woman, and put them on the Island of Ceylon. According to the account, it was the most beautiful island of which man can conceive. Such birds, such songs, such flowers and such verdure! And the branches of the trees were so arranged that when the wind swept through them every tree was a thousand Eolian harps.

¶ Brahma, when he put them there said, "Let them have a period of courtship, for it is my desire and will that true love should forever precede marriage." When I read that, it was so much more beautiful and lofty than the other, that I said to myself, "If either one of these stories turns out to be true, I hope it will be this one."

Then they had their courtship, with the nightingale singing, and the stars shining, and the flowers blooming, and they fell in love. Imagine that courtship! No prospective fathers or mothers-in-law; no prying and gossiping neighbors; nobody to say, "Young man, how do you expect to support her?" Nothing of that kind. They were married by the Supreme Brahma, and he said to them,

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Remain here; you must never leave this island." Well, after a little while, the man and his name was Adami, and the woman's name was Heva-said to Heva, “I believe I'll look about a little." He went to the Northern extremity of the island, where there was a little narrow neck of land connecting it with the mainland, and the Devil, who is always playing pranks with us, produced a mirage, and when he looked over to the mainland, such hills and vales, such dells and dales, such mountains crowned with snow, such cataracts clad in bows of glory did he see there, that he went back and told Heva, "The

country over there is a thousand times better than this; let us migrate." She, like every other woman that ever lived, said, "Let well enough alone; we have all we want; let us stay here." But he said, "No, let us go;" so she followed him and when they came to this narrow neck of land, he took her on his back like a gentleman and carried her over. But the moment they got over they heard a crash, and looking back, discovered that this narrow neck of land had fallen into the sea. The mrage had disappeared, and there was naught but rocksi and sand; and then the Supreme Brahma cursed them both to the lowest hell.

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¶ Then it was that the man spoke and I have liked him ever since for it-" Curse me, but curse not her; it was not her fault, it was mine."

That's the kind of man to start a world with!.

The Supreme Brahma said, "I will save her, but not thee." And then she spoke out of the fulness of love, out of a heart in which there was love enough to make all her daughters rich in holy affection, and said, "If thou wilt not spare him, spare neither me; I do not wish to live without him; I love him." Then the Supreme Brahma said—and I have liked him ever since I read it-"I will spare you both and watch over you and your children forever."

LIBERTY, float not forever in the far horizon -remain not forever in the dream of the enthusiast, the philanthropist and poet, but come and make thy home among the children of men!

¶I know not what discoveries, what inventions, what thoughts may leap from the brain of the world. I know

not what garments of glory may be woven by the years to come. I can not dream of the victories to be won upon the fields of thought; but I do know that, coming from the infinite sea of the future, there will never touch this "bank and shoal of time" a richer gift, a rarer blessing, than liberty for man, for woman and for child.

LITTLE while ago, I stood by the grave of the

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old Napoleon-a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a deity dead-and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and priceless marble, where rest at last the ashes of that restless man I leaned over the balustrade and thought about the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world.

¶ I saw him walking upon the banks of the Seine, contemplating suicide. I saw him at Toulon-I saw him putting down the mob in the streets of Paris-I saw him at the head of the army of Italy-I saw him crossing the bridge of Lodi, with the tricolor in his hand-I saw him in Egypt in the shadows of the Pyramids-I saw him conquer the Alps and mingle the eagles of France with the eagles of the crags. I saw him at Marengo-at Ulm and Austerlitz. I saw him in Russia, where the infantry of the snow and the cavalry of the wild blasts scattered his legions like Winter's withered leaves. I saw him at Leipsic in defeat and disaster-driven by a million bayonets back upon Paris-clutched like a wild beast-banished to Elba. I saw him escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius. I saw him upon the frightful field of Waterloo, where Chance and Fate combined to wreck the fortunes of their former king. And I saw him at Saint