the world with eyes � eyes which not merely inquire and pierce but challenge accuse also happily was the prophet of old named a for he who rightly and deeply sees thence your is a very empty and harmless ge � a voice aud nothing more but a silent though uttering only the most obvious and truths sets the social furiously and think not that i am come to send peace on says tlie prince of peace i am not come to send peace but a sword all the of that turbulent age were not half so formidable to roman as the sermon on the mount and so in our day a genuine earnest i no matter in what in what garb invested sets all things and around him � the true turns his eyes first inward himself liis habits purposes asking what this and and wherein is its justification this daily provision of meat and drink � is its end nourishment and its incident enjoyment or are the poles reversed and do i eat and drink for the gratification of appetite hoping or trusting or blindly that since it my desires it must satisfy also my needs is it that all the and should be to and to that of a beast of prey above all why should i fire my blood and my brain with which give a temporary to the spirits at the cost of permanent and disorder to the whole physical frame in short why should i live for and in my if these were created to serve and sustain not master and the spirit to which this earthly frame is but a a tent a halting place in an exalted career if the life be indeed more than meat why shall not the meat recognize and that fact and thus the sincere in the very outset of his course becomes a tee total represented by the and regarded by the vulgar as a foe to all enjoyment and cheer that mankind shall to his and live on bread and blue cold water turning his eyes away from himself he the relations of man with man under which labor is performed and service secured and finds not absolute justice much less love but necessity on the one hand advantage on the other over the general of good offices mankind in the market on the exchange we meet no recognition of the brotherhood of the human race a famine in one country is a to the gi ain and flour of another an excess of the cost of food while the wages of labor adding in both ways to the wealth of the who their only in the increased burdens of thus the mansion and the rise side by side and where are abundant is hanging most frequent one man s necessity being s opportunity we have no right to be surprised or indignant that the general system by an logical process in the existence and stubborn maintenance of human slavery yes i insist that slavery is a logical from principle generally accepted and almost universally accounted sound and for once admit the premises that i have a ri lit to seek profit from my neighbor s and tiiat i have a right to in idleness the or of half a dozen workers if my income will justify the and tliat it is better to live oil from the proceeds of my own � and tlie of slavery is a logical us as that two and two make four hence the the the for gain to others vices is always i o ery or is only withheld from that side fear of being himself you would not on three find a or house bully who would not gladly five miles on a dark stormy night to help an and thus liave all if if ill relationship but tlie of i are united by a free et potent and com i the negro of or new would ah help to mob a even though he did not drink for he hated and tlie of to practical life this j did not with his pursuits or liis gains but he felt all other were just it � that wi j over its and that providence had made him heir of a fortune so that he might have and lived idly might just as well sigh outright for john s plantation and fat whether it shall ever he found practicable to substitute a more and beneficent social order for that which now the are fully justified in doubting so many experiments � fairly tried so far as can see � have resulted in so many failures that they quite conclude that the family is the only or at least the highest social organization whereof poor human nature is capable it is all very well they fairly say to talk of the great of some social system � how much could be saved in fences and fuel and lights production and distribution by five hundred families in one household on a common domain than scattering them over twice as many acres or twenty score farms but since it is proved that families cannot or will not live and labor in tliis way what use in it you might as well talk of tlie superior pavement of the new seen in st john s vision to that of or chestnut street and insist that our cities shall henceforth use the former there is much force in this view but there is more force in one higher and nobler it is true that men and women educated in the selfish and of our current are not qualified � at least the great mass of them are not � for any better form of society it is that this knowledge has been attained through years of patient exertion and sacrifice � attained by earnest ardent self denying men and women who would have given 