The fountain : with jets of new meanings . a friend. Esteemed for his wit andgeniality, and beloved for his strict integrity and high 16 242 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. moral principles, and yet so suddenly weakened andturned from his purpose by what he considered a badsign ! Strong intellects cannot escape the effect of thememory of u signs, and the occurrence of events de-noting evil, which they learned by heart in child-hood. The human spirit, naturally reaching into theinvisible after aid, and craving sympathy in its trialsand dangers, is sensitively alive to the teachings andinfluence of fate.
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . a friend. Esteemed for his wit andgeniality, and beloved for his strict integrity and high 16 242 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. moral principles, and yet so suddenly weakened andturned from his purpose by what he considered a badsign ! Strong intellects cannot escape the effect of thememory of u signs, and the occurrence of events de-noting evil, which they learned by heart in child-hood. The human spirit, naturally reaching into theinvisible after aid, and craving sympathy in its trialsand dangers, is sensitively alive to the teachings andinfluence of fate. In spite of the keen shafts of ridi-cule, and in opposition to the plainest dictates of com-mon sense and accept-ed science, it is easyfor eight-tenths of ev-ery population by in-sensible degrees to leanto the side of ignoranceand superstition. Uponno other principle cana philosopher accountfor the wide - spreadacceptance throughoutcivilization of this dis-mal thing which callsitself Christian The-ology. Thousands up-on thousands in mis-. A BIRD OP EVIL OMEN. OMENS AND SIGNS. 243 erable homes and mad-houses realize the unutterablehorrors implanted by a cateehismal education into thedeplorable superstitions of literal hells of fire and brim-stone, a personal devil of magnificent abilities in eternalopposition to Deity, and all the thirty-nine other name-less nightmares and mythic horrors which float current-ly as great truths in the best Christian communities. Physiologists havedemonstrated that the hog, although not amedium for the lesserdevils as reported instory, is a first-classboarding-house for mil-lions of m a n-killingworms. Scrofulousdiseases, not personaldevils, arise from thepost - mortem remainsof swine. Christiansstill continue to eatthis devil-meat; over which many daily ask blessings and subsequently return thanks ; as if the God of eternal and unalter-able truth and justice would or could, by special mir-acle, convert pork into piety and scrofula into rose-tints
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