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tion to the family by going to the family church. Perhaps it is his first lesson in learning that individualism, within certain limits, can express itself within an organization, and that organization and coöperation are the fulcrums of humanity.

But when the child, as adult, has thought and arrived at different conclusions from his parent, the latter should place no fetters of restraint or affection upon his will. The constitutional tendencies of varying minds will carry them to various denominations. The conservative and the radical cannot consort in their underlying views of philosophy. The High or Catholic Church must exist for those who lean on authority; the Broad Church for those who are independent; Radicalism for those who are willing to follow thought to its more ultimate conclusions; oddities in church organization for those who must invent a sect for their own personality. Homœopathy and mysticism are akin, as are allopathy and ration-

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