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 self, should have to be treated according to some silly philosophic police-formula, so that no harm shall come to the masses. In these early years of the world in which we live there should be no resting on our oars; activity ought always to be the word. For our clime, our philosophy and our religion, the time of universal cynicism has not nearly arrived. I should be sorry if some other nation or other age were to snatch this branch of knowledge away from us.