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6 Struggle for Moral and Spiritual Elevation."

"Let the Pleasure Field be as Large as Possible. Pains and Fears Lessen Growth."

"I Believe that to Burden, to Bond, to Tax, to Tribute, to Impoverish, to Grind, to Pillage, to Oppress, to Afflict, to Plunder, to Vampire the Life Laboring to Create Wealth is the Unpardonable Sin."

Over the mantel-shelf was a seaweed picture in a frame of shells, bearing the inscription, "Unity Hall, Meeting-Place of the Order of Present Perfection." On a table, waiting to be hung in place, was an impressive sort of map about four feet square. This, like many of the other ornaments in the room, was a trifle puzzling, and seemed at first, from its plenitude of colored spots, to be some species of moral propaganda in a state of violent eruption. It proved, however, on closer study, to be an ingenious pictorial representation of the fifty largest cities of the world, with the successful establishment of various regenerating ideas indicated by colored discs of paper neatly pasted on the surface. The key in the right-hand corner read:—