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Rh in great halls of instruction, the property of the nation. No individual possesses or cares to possess these things; he considers them curious, interesting, and beautiful, and no more.

"The simple uniform garments we adopt serve all our wants. If women on fête days wish to adorn themselves they use flowers, which have a charm of simplicity and beauty about them, far beyond gems, that—could their history be told—would reveal a deplorable chapter of crimes committed for their sakes. Think of the tyrants they have adorned; think of the immorality they have bedecked with borrowed and deceitful rays of sparkling beauty; think of the envy they have engendered in the souls of generations; think of the deceits, the intrigues, the blasphemies, the miseries, the murders, and the degradations that have been enacted for them, and then say is their record deserving of recognition or respect?

"On the other hand, when our women adorn themselves with flowers, they adorn themselves with beautiful new born beauty, short lived, it