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Rh mankind that if this unwholesome mode of living was persisted in, the human race must come to a disgraceful and untimely end. Terrible in our eyes is the knowledge that such a state of things had ever existed, because we know from the experience of the past its baneful effects on hundreds of generations. Men and women, who ought to have adorned the earth, and been as beautiful in their way as the most lovely of God's works, became a disgrace to humanity. They were a trouble to themselves and to all around them. To fully describe the excesses entered into by the majority of the people that came after your era would be as disgusting as it is unnecessary. You must have seen enough of this abuse in your own day to enable you to judge as to whether our way is the right way or not, my Specimen.

"While there was this immorality, while everything moral and intellectual seemed to be on the road to destruction, there was still some good left in the world. Although the common