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144 the mind is of more value to us than the miserable food you used to cram into that sink of iniquity, your stomach. You forget that to us mental raiment is worth more than all the clothing that in your day was so much prized and sought after. You forget that we have no use for that bauble money, that you sought for, fought for, and for which you degraded yourselves. You forget that the rays thrown out by one brilliant thought, or one great conception, are possessed of more grandeur and beauty, for the present generation, than all the diamonds and rubies that were so much prized by the ancients. But while we are more alive to the beauties of thought and the gems of intellect, than to any of the so-called jewels, clothing and other treasures of the ancients, we do not despise the beauties of these gems or of this raiment. We look on gold and silver much as we look on lovely flowers without life. We admire and prize the grand effects that can be produced by their artistic arrangements and settings. These effects we study and arrange