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development of such attributes, it should be freed from this incumbrance of evil in either an attractive, picturesque, or saddened aspect.

Because of feigned or real indifference and the "proprieties," wrong-doing is not fading away under the auspices of many wise and fashionable reforms. When moral law is declared to be more obligatory than instinct, and the reasons for such belief are deemed matter for serious inculcation, the populace demur and the educated and aesthetic enjoin silence even in the home.

Cannot something more powerful than ever yet has been tried be brought to bear upon the eradication of evil? Must not that power be the weight of combined public opinion working in concert which shall demand that children be educated into knowledge of what is true? Great stress is now laid upon the importance of a right intellectual elementary education; the morals of truth and energy are not neglected, but instruction in the special

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