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Rh exhorted by reason, by conscience and feeling, to secure to our brother-men their lives, to preserve them from the suffering- and death which result from their unequal contest with nature, and to urge upon them the labor for bread, the most important and most wearisome of all work, and which is distinctly imposed on all men.

Even as the spring may not ask where it shall send its waters, whether it shall sprinkle from above the grass and the leaves of the trees, or seek their roots beneath the earth, so a man who knows the doctrine of truth may not ask in advance what he must do, whether he is to teach men, to defend them from the enemy, to amuse them and give them the pleasures of life, or to succor those who perish in want. A spring does not flow upon the surface, quenching the thirst of animals and filling the ponds,