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 selves, and one another, with the subtlest forms of deception, simply to obscure, to deaden conscience.

Instead of transforming their life into harmony with their conscience, they try by every means to stifle its voice. But it is in darkness that the light begins to shine, and so the light is rising upon our epoch.

 CHAPTER VII.

SIGNIFICANCE OF COMPULSORY SERVICE.

people of the upper classes are trying to stifle the ever-growing sense of the necessity of transform ing the existing social order. But life, which goes on growing more complex, and developing in the same direction, and increases the inconsistencies and the sufferings 