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Facts and Fancies-Orpheus Everts · Jock of the Bushveld

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  Speaker 1: Prefatory of Facts and Fancies. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by Lindamrie Nielsen, Vancouver, BC. Facts and Fancies by Orpheus
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  Speaker 1: everts prefatory to the reader without discussing the antecedence of
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  Speaker 1: which the publication of the following pages is a sequence
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  Speaker 1: the author begs in advance to be acquitted on his
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  Speaker 1: own motion of the presumption of posing as a poet,
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  Speaker 1: or the intention premeditated, malicious, or other, of perpetrating poetry
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  Speaker 1: upon the public. No one knows better than he does
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  Speaker 1: the estimation in which minor poets are held by the
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  Speaker 1: more capable men of affairs of the present day, as
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  Speaker 1: well as how rare a man is a great poet
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  Speaker 1: of whatever age. The fact is advancing peoples are emerging
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  Speaker 1: from the methopic and poetic planes of human development, and
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  Speaker 1: no longer live in an atmosphere of supernaturalism and superstition,
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  Speaker 1: which constitute the most nutrious problem of poesy. Science smiles
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  Speaker 1: and business sneers. The mystical and fanciful in modern literature,
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  Speaker 1: and the implied incompetency of the dreamer poets as a
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  Speaker 1: race will soon be extinct. Tennyson has no successor. College Hill,
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  Speaker 1: September eighteen ninety five. End of prefatory recording by Linda
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  Speaker 1: Mae Nielson, Vancouver BC, Chapter one of Facts and Fancies
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  Speaker 1: by Orpheus Everts. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Linda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver BC, Chapter one, seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty bright and early. That is early for a man
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  Speaker 1: who goes to bed at one a m. And seldom
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  Speaker 1: before nine arises. I was up and dressed and running
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  Speaker 1: downhill toward a railway station, railway owned by Robert Simpson,
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  Speaker 1: owned and run by Robert for the benefit of friends
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  Speaker 1: and neighbors and whatever else is in it. Station called
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  Speaker 1: the Sanitarium for a hospital above there on the hilltop building,
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  Speaker 1: spacious grounds, delightful, roomy, shady, pure spring water, just the
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  Speaker 1: place for invalids who've been prostrated, overworked, or lost their
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  Speaker 1: balance and need rest for restoration. Heard the locomotive whistle
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  Speaker 1: whistle loudly near the station, fairly howling at the station, hastening.
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  Speaker 1: Then my steps a little lengthening my stride a trifle,
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  Speaker 1: swinging gripsack and umbrella down the hill, I went regardless.
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  Speaker 1: Someone laughed who saw me going, laugh without occasion, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: But the vulgar always laugh when better persons meet with mishaps,
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  Speaker 1: step on orange skins, for instance, and sit down upon
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk suddenly unexpected before strangers, or bare headed chase
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  Speaker 1: their hats blown off by high winds, or attempt and
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  Speaker 1: fail by running to catch up with trains in motion.
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  Speaker 1: It was warm work, but I made it, made the
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  Speaker 1: train and got on board it. Southbound train for Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: early morning train conducted by the tall and tawny richer,
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  Speaker 1: first named Henry, first rate fellow, held his train for
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  Speaker 1: half a minute when he saw me, saw me coming
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  Speaker 1: Mercury eighty six, and ryse car was full of men
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  Speaker 1: of business on their way from home, suburban cottages and mansions,
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  Speaker 1: roomy fresh green leaves and arbor's leafy wives, all beautiful
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  Speaker 1: and happy children, sweet and good and lovely to the
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  Speaker 1: dull and dusty city, to the hot and horrid city,
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  Speaker 1: all intent on making money, money, money, money, money, all
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  Speaker 1: expecting having made it, made enough to be made happy.
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  Speaker 1: Strange delusion. Yet a good one makes men work and
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  Speaker 1: makes them honest. Men must work to gain, and must
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  Speaker 1: be honest to be very happy. Not a man on
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  Speaker 1: College Hill would jeopardize his souls hereafter for a million
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. They all know the fate of Dives, how
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  Speaker 1: it fared with him and Lazarus. They all know about
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  Speaker 1: a camel squeezing through a needle's eye, how difficult a
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  Speaker 1: thing that would be. And in fact, there's not a
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  Speaker 1: man there who, by nature a vicarious, not one that
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  Speaker 1: would wreck a railroad, loot a bank, or cheat a neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: advertise to sell his wares at less than cost. Year
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  Speaker 1: in and year out. College Hill men are all honest.
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  Speaker 1: All on board were reading papers, some commercials, some inquirers.
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  Speaker 1: Each one said to every other warm this morning, getting warmer.
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  Speaker 1: Every other in return said, very very warm this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Then each one and every other resume reading, reading how
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese had thrashed old China. Not another word was spoken,
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  Speaker 1: not another word that I heard all the way from
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  Speaker 1: College Hill to that old, dark and gloomy depot that
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  Speaker 1: disgraces Cincinnati, name of which I need not mention. The
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  Speaker 1: C H and D is meant though relic of a
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  Speaker 1: bygone era, waiting for a good time coming end of
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  Speaker 1: chapter one. Chapter two of Facts and Fancies by Orpheus everts.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: e fifteen At the Grand Central bought a ticket for
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  Speaker 1: Peoria Big Four route. The Big Four is of all roads,
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  Speaker 1: the best, no matter where you wish to go, shortest, smoothest, quickest, safest,
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  Speaker 1: and the best conducted. Maybe maybe bought trained ticket and
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  Speaker 1: insurance for one day. Insurance needless on Big Four road,
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  Speaker 1: bought from Habit. Always feel a sense of comfort when insured,
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  Speaker 1: A sense of duty done toward others, others who might
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  Speaker 1: find my bank account at zero under trying circumstances. Cost
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  Speaker 1: a fortune to get buried Nowaday's costly casket used to
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  Speaker 1: bury folks in coffins, and a funeral procession, car and horses,
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  Speaker 1: many paid for out of one's estate, now costing. No
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  Speaker 1: one knows just how much. Flowers too, No, not while
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting inhumation. Not a blossom. I like flowers when
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  Speaker 1: not funeral, Like them in their proper places, like them
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  Speaker 1: wild amid the grasses in the woodlands and the meadows,
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  Speaker 1: like the springtime's dainty beauties, pure and sweet as infancy,
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  Speaker 1: and the summer's gaudy blossoms passionate like youth and lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Also autumns golden glories, promises of youth fulfilling all the
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  Speaker 1: faultless decorations of incomparable nature, Like them too, in kitchen
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  Speaker 1: gardens tended tenderly by women under windows, front and rearward,
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  Speaker 1: climbing porches, over arbors, flanking sidewalks, leading homeward by their
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  Speaker 1: colors and their odors, all reminding one of someone mother, sister,
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  Speaker 1: or old sweetheart, and ah me of youth departed, like
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  Speaker 1: them in conservatories after autumn leaves have fallen, house like
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  Speaker 1: royal Russians in their winter palaces, secure from nihilistic frost,
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  Speaker 1: fiends deadly but in close, shut curtained parlors, where the
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  Speaker 1: dead await inspection by the friendly and the curious, and
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  Speaker 1: the funeral directors. Systematic solemn movements, where the mournful sadly
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  Speaker 1: linger till the final parting moment. There forgive this touch
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  Speaker 1: of nature. There to me, they're not a pleasure at
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  Speaker 1: a wedding, There becoming and on all occasions festive, For
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  Speaker 1: there's laughter in their colors, and delight in their fresh odors,
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  Speaker 1: when our hearts are light and joyous, But not when
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  Speaker 1: grief veiled and sobbing in the first hours of our anguish,
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of our sorrow, our dear dead, still
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  Speaker 1: undelivered to all the devouring darkness. Then they mock our
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  Speaker 1: saddened senses, and deride the tears that blind us bought
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  Speaker 1: train ticket, as heir foresaid for Peoria, city famed for
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  Speaker 1: potteries and big distilleries, country produce. Much consumed there goes
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  Speaker 1: in corn, but comes a whiskey city name for a
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  Speaker 1: big Indian once a chieftain, so reputed of a band
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  Speaker 1: of savage vermin, called by poets noble red men. Much
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  Speaker 1: be praised by thin romances as a race of rare endowments, brave, sagitious, faithful, truthful, patient, uncomplaining, grateful, generous, appreciative, eloquent,
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  Speaker 1: and sentimental in all virtues, far excelling, false, degenerate, wicked
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  Speaker 1: white men. But such bosh is worse than buncombe, false,
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  Speaker 1: as fat and wild as fancy. The red races all
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  Speaker 1: are savage, cruel, treacherous, ungrateful, sneaking, wily, and deceptive, low browed, lazy, unprogressive,
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  Speaker 1: infantile in mind and habits, never growing too full, manhood
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  Speaker 1: governed only by their fears and expectation of advantage. So
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  Speaker 1: they are, and ever have been, Cooper Campbell. Notwithstanding, such
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  Speaker 1: they were before the white man, restless, pushing, energetic, speculative, pioneering,
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  Speaker 1: braver than the bravest, redskin, more endearing and sageous, wiser, truer, noble,
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  Speaker 1: stronger found him in the way and traded no matter
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  Speaker 1: what for his broad acre. Such before the Jesuit fathers
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  Speaker 1: Hennepin LaSalle and Maraquette Chilverrick, heroic, dauntless, traversed long leagues
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  Speaker 1: of wilderness and these wonderful prairies, discovering the then Great West,
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  Speaker 1: Such before the world famed sailor, driven by his strong convictions,
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  Speaker 1: sailing down a chartless ocean, day by day into the unknown,
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  Speaker 1: sailing westward, ever onward, leaving the old world behind him,
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  Speaker 1: found at length the seaward portals of a new world,
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  Speaker 1: all unguarded, entered and aroused the Red men, native and
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  Speaker 1: before unchallenged to a conflict not yet ended. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, Chapter number three of Facts and fancies by
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  Speaker 1: Orpheus Everett's This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Lyndamree Nielsen, Vancouver, BC. Chapter three showed my
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  Speaker 1: ticket to the gateman. Hurry up, he said. I hurried,
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  Speaker 1: found that every seat was taken as for cher card,
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  Speaker 1: asked for sleeper. Not on this train, said somebody. This
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  Speaker 1: is the accommodation. Disappointed and embarrassed, sought the smoker. There
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  Speaker 1: by good luck was a single seat, still vacant, crowded
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  Speaker 1: though by train boys, baskets, and the water tank, surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by a law of dirty dagoes. Immigrants all sorts and sizes,
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  Speaker 1: striving hard to quench their thirst. There, immigrants Italian, mostly
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  Speaker 1: looking weary and exhausted, travel sore, yet not despondent. Not
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  Speaker 1: all near me sat a maiden, dressed in dirty, tattered garments,
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  Speaker 1: oval featured, olive colored, brown eyed. Was she rather drowsy,
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  Speaker 1: looking as she might if dreaming of her old home
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  Speaker 1: and her childhood left behind now both forever, or of
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  Speaker 1: some unhappy lover whose caresses warm and tender she shall
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  Speaker 1: never more respond to? Was she dreaming or but sleepy?
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  Speaker 1: In the next seat sat a matron who, though young.
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  Speaker 1: The maiden's sister was giving suck. Two hungry babies, twins, emaciated, fretful,
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  Speaker 1: tugging at maternal fountains, pendant, empty, bear, and grimy. Yet
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  Speaker 1: to them their only solace, not a figure such as
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  Speaker 1: artists her own countrymen, for instance, Raphaphelia spelled phonetic, or
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  Speaker 1: the Spaniard famed Marecillo, master painters of Madonna's Madelena's blessed virgins,
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  Speaker 1: would have chosen for a model. Nor were her The
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  Speaker 1: maiden's features reminiscent of such beauty as the enamored artist Guido,
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  Speaker 1: memorized and made immortal by his portrait of a lady
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  Speaker 1: being led to execution. Beatrice, not her whom Dante worshiped,
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  Speaker 1: but a noble Roman daughter of the house of Sinsey,
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  Speaker 1: persecuted by her father, killed for killing him a monster,
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  Speaker 1: read the tragedy by Shelley. Other children were around her, fretting, crying,
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  Speaker 1: wanting water, while behind them sat their father, careless of
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  Speaker 1: their wants, unconscious, sleeping, soundly, sleeping, snoring. Thus survived the
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  Speaker 1: fittest strongest. Such is nature's law or order in all kingdoms,
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  Speaker 1: such the practice of all peoples, jew or Christian, he
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  Speaker 1: who hath to him is given more and more is
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  Speaker 1: gospel teaching. If not given, he will take it strength forever,
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  Speaker 1: robbing weakness with a pity and remorselessness. Such is thrift.
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  Speaker 1: Long live the thrifty, Let the weak lament their weakness,
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  Speaker 1: let them rail, or let them weep. There's no escape
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  Speaker 1: from nature's ethics. Yet an altruistic ethic grows apace as
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  Speaker 1: time develops. More and more the growing races now and
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  Speaker 1: then a man of money, either vain or philanthropic or
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  Speaker 1: afraid of hell, provides for hospital or home for orphans,
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  Speaker 1: or endows a namesake college and a thousand benefactions dropping
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  Speaker 1: from the hands of Christians. Not dogmatic Christians only aiding
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  Speaker 1: weakness in its struggle, so unequal for existence, testify to
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  Speaker 1: evolutions modifying human nature. States two now protect their weakest
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  Speaker 1: from the pitiless indifference of nature or of providence by
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  Speaker 1: asylums and taxation. And in time to come, it may
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  Speaker 1: be love will triumph over selflessness, strength their weakness as
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  Speaker 1: a burden self imposed, and all grow stronger. But nor
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  Speaker 1: love nor hate can make them equal in the scale
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  Speaker 1: of being, nor adjust their rights and wrongs by forcing
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  Speaker 1: them to seek a level ind of Chapter three, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: four of Facts and Fancies by Orpheus Everetts. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Recording by Linda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, BC.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four Immigrants Italian, wherefore wandering from a land of
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  Speaker 1: beauty famed through ages long and many, From a land
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  Speaker 1: of constant sunshine, where the skies are never clouded and
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  Speaker 1: the earth is ever verdant. From a land of balmy breezes,
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  Speaker 1: where the winds are never wounding, but ref freshing, gentle healing.
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  Speaker 1: From a land of fruits and flowers, corn and wine,
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  Speaker 1: and oil and honey, macaroni and bologna, Where are castles
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  Speaker 1: and cathedrals, palaces and ancient ruins, storied urns, and dust
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  Speaker 1: of heroes, bones of saints and holy martyrs, nails and
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  Speaker 1: splinters of the true Cross, and a thousand things unmentioned
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  Speaker 1: interesting to the gifted. What now brings this people hither
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  Speaker 1: to a country unhistoric, unpoetic, unromantic, new and rude and realistic,
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  Speaker 1: where no memories have clustered moss like on old walls
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  Speaker 1: and turrets, and no legends lead on fancy back through
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  Speaker 1: ages into dreamland where no prophet, but smith Joseph Hath
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  Speaker 1: revealed direct from Heaven, God inspired a new religion, where
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  Speaker 1: no holy wells nor cities glad the hearts of faithful pilgrims,
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  Speaker 1: where no kings have ever been crowned. Not a caesar
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  Speaker 1: bold aspired to rule the world with bloody scepter, where
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  Speaker 1: no Virgil, Tasso, Dante hath yet sung himself immortal, Where
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  Speaker 1: no plastic art hath builded home or tomb or holy
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  Speaker 1: temple of incomparable beauty, Where great capitals are tawdry and
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  Speaker 1: great cities are mushroomic, where great battlefields are recent, and
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing interesting to a man of brains and culture,
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  Speaker 1: light and sweetness, intellectual like the late lamented Arnold Matthew
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  Speaker 1: meaning not Sir Edwin. What is there behind this movement? True?
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  Speaker 1: We have great lakes and rivers, lofty mountains, grand prairies,
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  Speaker 1: waterfalls both great and little, falls that laugh, and falls
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  Speaker 1: that thunder, Parks as big as old world empires, green
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  Speaker 1: fields growing bread for millions, minds that smile at old
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  Speaker 1: golcondas have in fact, in common parlance oratic newspaperl as
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  Speaker 1: you may have seen it written, heard it roar, or
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  Speaker 1: sung or shouted, the greatest country in the world, best
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  Speaker 1: that God sung ever shone on. Half the continent is
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  Speaker 1: ours now, and the other half soon will be greatest
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  Speaker 1: people on God's footstool, not afraid of all creation whip
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  Speaker 1: Great Britain twice already made her pay US fifteen million
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  Speaker 1: to prevent another thrashing. Got more money now per head
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  Speaker 1: than any other living people. Credit good in every market.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing that we don't excel in, from the making of
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  Speaker 1: a whistle to an engine called the corliss, from a
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  Speaker 1: country district school up to a scientific college, from a
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  Speaker 1: democratic caucus to a constituted congress room. We have two
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  Speaker 1: for all comers, all except the heathen Chinese, wherein all
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  Speaker 1: may chase their phantoms money, fame or pleasure only. And
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  Speaker 1: what's more, we've peace and plenty, Peace and plenty ahe
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  Speaker 1: the problem of this influx of Italians finds intelligent solution.
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  Speaker 1: Hunger there and war impending, peace and plenty here in
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  Speaker 1: fighting tell the story of their movement from ancestral homes
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  Speaker 1: like cattle, from exhausted pastures to fresh fields. They have
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  Speaker 1: been driven love rules, the court, the camp, and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: so saying Sir Walter or some other poet who I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember. But love flies before the shadow of gaunt hunger,
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  Speaker 1: pale and pulseless, staying not to mock or question, shades
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  Speaker 1: so gloomy and portentous, hunger born of famine, stalking before death,
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  Speaker 1: through nature's kingdoms, happily for nature's children, giving them all timely, warning,
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  Speaker 1: wordless but informing, happily teaching life its needs is dangers,
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  Speaker 1: silent now and now, with clamor driving life to fresh exertions.
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  Speaker 1: What to it are Love's persuasions, sentiments of kinship, country
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  Speaker 1: idols that as it approaches fall as dagone feil before
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  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, prostrate, helpless end of chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five of Facts and Fancies by Orpheus Everetts. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by lindam Nielsen, Vancouver, BC.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five locomotive, loudly shrieking, tortured by a fire fiend, inward,
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  Speaker 1: madly reckless, headlong plunging, its long, trained tail, trembling, shaking
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  Speaker 1: in a state of agitation. Outward rushed through fields and woodlands,
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  Speaker 1: hot and growing ever hotter. Atmosphere within was reeking with
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  Speaker 1: the breath and sweat of mortals, innocent of soap and water,
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  Speaker 1: redolent of bad tobacco, fumes of undigested beer, and baby's
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  Speaker 1: toilets long neglected. Bah, How could one live and breathe
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  Speaker 1: it up? My window went and out, My nose and
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  Speaker 1: eyes soon filled with cinders, chunks that felt as big
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  Speaker 1: as brick, bats, smoke, and ashes such as fell on
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  Speaker 1: Pompeii out of old Vesuvius choked me and obscured my
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  Speaker 1: vision all the way from Cincinnati to that famous Hoosier
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  Speaker 1: city where Jim Riley write's sweet verses end of chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six of Fans and Fancies by Orpheus Efforts. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Linda
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  Speaker 1: by Nielsen, Vancouver, b c. Chapter six, Change cars, I
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  Speaker 1: changed in a hurry, got a good seat. No Italians,
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  Speaker 1: goodly Hoosiers, men and women, all intent on going somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the bridegroom looking silly at a blushing bride of twenty.
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  Speaker 1: There's a grand sire over eighty, stooped and silent, looking lonesome,
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  Speaker 1: sportive children not yet weary like so many monkeys playing
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  Speaker 1: big girls chewing gum or crunching peanuts, popcorn or red apples,
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  Speaker 1: country jakes lopsided, lolling in their seats, tobacco chewing, city
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  Speaker 1: alex spruce and duddish, looking clean and cool and brainless.
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  Speaker 1: Rustics in new suits just purchased of some Israelish merchant
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  Speaker 1: costing noddings almost aha, and still other human beings, all alike,
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  Speaker 1: with variations. Special characters among them soon attracted my attention.
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  Speaker 1: One a lean face, swarthy preacher, big nosed, heavy browed,
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  Speaker 1: and bushy cheekbones, high ears, long and meaty jaws that
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  Speaker 1: Sampson might have envied when he slaughtered the Philistines, manners,
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  Speaker 1: vulgar chewing toothpick, talking loudly to some cistern women of
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  Speaker 1: his own persuasion Baptist followers of Campbell, self styled Christians,
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  Speaker 1: talking gospel in a tone that gives assurance of an
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  Speaker 1: ass no matter where heard. Taught he did, of funerals, weddings,
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  Speaker 1: Sunday schools and Bible classes, of the temperance cause neglected,
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  Speaker 1: and of Zion how it languished in these days of
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  Speaker 1: mammon worship. Said he had a call to go to
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis might accept it was still praying for instruction. Salary
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  Speaker 1: three thousand dollars was now getting, but twelve hundred family
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  Speaker 1: was large, increasing enjoyed poor health, and he had not
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  Speaker 1: been quite well himself of late, but trusted all to Providence.
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  Speaker 1: Providence has much to care for, said a meditative sister.
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  Speaker 1: I don't wonder some poor mortals, seeing facts as they
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  Speaker 1: do see them, judging from appearance only, ignorant of hidden purpose,
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  Speaker 1: doubt God's goodness, doubt his justice, doubt his care for
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  Speaker 1: human beings, and cry out with ingersoll. Ingersoll, the preacher shouted,
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  Speaker 1: Ingersoll's a brazen liar, a blatant, blasphemous buffoon, making fools
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  Speaker 1: laugh while he robs them. Ignorant but self conceited. All
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  Speaker 1: his eloquence consists of epithets and false ascertations, ridicule of
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  Speaker 1: God and Moses, Christ and all the Bible teaches. He
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  Speaker 1: don't argue, never reasons, is not capable of thinking, knows
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  Speaker 1: no more about the Bible than a goat does of
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  Speaker 1: Greek grammar, tears down all that faith has builded, all
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  Speaker 1: that strengthens, all the comforts, all that makes life here
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  Speaker 1: worth living, laughing at the devastation by his wickedness, effected
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  Speaker 1: like an imbecile old Roman fiddling a minst conflagration started
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  Speaker 1: by his own devices. He'll find out who was mistaken
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  Speaker 1: when he wakes in hell and cries out, help me, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: help me, such profane and noisy fellows. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why God don't strike him dead or dumb and stop
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  Speaker 1: such slender. He's been answered, has he not, sir? Said
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  Speaker 1: the meditative sister answered, I should say he has been
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  Speaker 1: cried the preacher, quite emphatic. I have answered him myself,
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  Speaker 1: and so have Saxby, Bruce and Carrie answered. But we
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  Speaker 1: have not silenced. He must be a monster, said a timid, shrinking,
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  Speaker 1: simple sister. I should be afraid to meet him. How
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  Speaker 1: can people go to hear him? I once felt as
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  Speaker 1: you do, said a woman bearing marks of sorrow, marks
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: of martyrdom, and pace tempered by a touch of reason.
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  Speaker 1: I do not approve his teaching. But my brother, who
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  Speaker 1: lives near him, he has so often often told me
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  Speaker 1: that he never knew a better truer man in all relations, husband, father, soldier,
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  Speaker 1: neighbor than this same man. Ingersoll is sensitive to wrong
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  Speaker 1: of all kinds, quick to hear and quick to answer
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  Speaker 1: the appeals of all who suffer so much the worse,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed the preacher. Good deeds done by the ungodly only
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: serve to damn them deeper. By appearance of virtue. They
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  Speaker 1: deceive and mislead others. The unthinking and unworry there's no
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  Speaker 1: merit in their morals. Only true baptized believers should be
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  Speaker 1: credited by good works. They alone will find acceptance at
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  Speaker 1: the judgment seat of Jesus. He who thinks to enter
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  Speaker 1: Heaven on his merits as a soldier, husband, father, or
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: good neighbor will be greatly disappointed. It is crime far
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: worse than error, far worse. I think. Thus, too offset
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  Speaker 1: sinds too black for hell to punish by some petty
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  Speaker 1: acts of kindness that costs nothing for the doing, may
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  Speaker 1: give pleasure to the doer. On the part of unbelievers
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  Speaker 1: better far a thief, repentant and believing that an angel
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: of cast stubborn and rebellious. Yes, I know, replied the women.
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  Speaker 1: Yet I've sometimes thought that some men who make long
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  Speaker 1: and loud professions of their faith might be still better
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  Speaker 1: if they do at least their duties toward their families
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  Speaker 1: and neighbors. If they'd be more kindly careful for the
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  Speaker 1: comfort of their children and the welfare of their women
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  Speaker 1: here in this world, without danger to their happiness hereafter,
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  Speaker 1: they might not be quite so zealous in their church work,
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  Speaker 1: so ambitious to be recognized as leaders, elders, decons by
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  Speaker 1: their neighbors, yet be more sincerely peous. But of course
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  Speaker 1: I do not know much, being only a mere woman.
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  Speaker 1: Still I wish that all believers would behave themselves in
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  Speaker 1: this world. End of chapter six, Chapter five B of
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  Speaker 1: Facts and Fancies by Orpheus Efforts. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five B. In two seats, well barricaded by much
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: baggage and a poodle in a basket, sat a maiden
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  Speaker 1: of the ancient order, saintly cool, composed but not unconscious.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Bolt upright, she sat, Her eyelids drooped to shut the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: vulgar rolled out, still defying time. The tyrant on her
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: brow and cheeks, no wrinkles, bold betrayed how many decades
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  Speaker 1: had been numbered since her birthday. Not a drop of
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  Speaker 1: perspiration breaking through an epidermis made of chemic compositions, gave
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  Speaker 1: the slightest intimidation by exposure of the true skin of
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: her age, a well kept secret. Nor did any lines
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  Speaker 1: expressive of emotion or reflection indicate her thoughts or feelings.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: One might wonder what her thoughts were of things near
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: or far, or present, realistic or romantic. If she thought
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: of castle's airy castles, ancient built by fancy inhuthed green
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: enchanted islands, now obscured by miss and ivy times benant
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: miss and ivy, in which once she thought to dwell
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: with love the prince of all enchanters, or of mansions
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: being builded in the haze of distant hopeland, looming like
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  Speaker 1: a mirage lifted from an intervening desert. Could she think?
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  Speaker 1: And was she thinking? If so? Not by look or
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: gesture did she give the slightest token of her maiden meditation.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Not until the rude conductor, in a manner quite familiar,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: held his dirty hand out toward her, meaning thereby ticket
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: please miss. Did she change her pose or aspect? Then,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: with air temptuous saying, not by words but looks emphatic,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: don't come near me, don't you see? I hate you?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And your sex supremely, She at arm's length, held her
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  Speaker 1: cheek and closed her eyes while he received it in
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the next seat. What a contrast sat a lovely girl
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of twenty, youthful, beautiful, overflowing with the joyfulness of being.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: She with beaming eyes, expressive of both innocence and passion,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: without waiting invitation, handed out her ticket, smiling, asked the
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: rude official questions, thanked him for discourteous answers, looked about
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: with charming sweetness, and resumed her novel trilby. Why will
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: youth and beauty always boon companions with love triangle? So
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: bestow themselves together charming trio, yet all transient. When one goes,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: the others follow gone, appreciated after youth, a gay and
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: joyful fellow, hopeful, cheerful, bold, aggressive, seeking pleasure or adventure,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: reckless of all present danger, thoughtless of the unseen future. Oh,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: that youth would tarry longer, Beauty, youth divine to insist
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: her graceful, brilliant, fascinating, ruling all the world around her,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: ruling by her presence, merely like a child that rules
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: a household, playful now and now, imperious, smiles and tears alike,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: imposing why was beauty doomed to perish? When you thighs?
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Will love survive them? Love? O love more subtle still
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: then youth or beauty? Them beguiling with soft words and
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: tender touches, melting eyes and furtive glances, stolen kisses, warm embraces,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: sighs and tears, and breath of passion. Dreams too, dreams
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: fairer than ever. Morpheus forged for arc Imago to deceive
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: a knight and lady in those far off days of magic,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: days of chivalry and romance see The Fairy Queen by Spencer.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Dreams resplendent, beautific, dreams of bliss to last forever. Oh
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: that love be rift, of beauty and of youth would
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: still continue when from these companions parted. What is there
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: that can be offered to console or re inspire love? Nothing,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: nothing alas nothing age may offer in profusion, titles, honors, fortunes,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: freedom from the common cares of life, and all the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: trappings of the lofty horses, carriages and servants, diamonds, emeralds
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: and rubies. Still love languishes and shivers in the arms
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: of age, still hungers for the right lipped, luscious kisses,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: and the lithe limbed, warm embraces of lamented youth. The
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: charmer vanity may feast on jewels. Love requires a different
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: diet and will seek far better perish. End of chapter
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  Speaker 1: five B. Chapter six B of Facts and Fancies by
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  Speaker 1: Orpheus Efforts. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 1: recording by Thendomar Nielsen, Vancouver BC. Chapter six B. Next
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: behind the blooming beauty sat a gay and festive masher
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: of the drummer species, buzzing country widow, young and pretty
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: of the amorous variety. Now and then a blush betrayed
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the nature of his conversation. Lucifer again in ease ear
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: whispering the old temptation. Thus it runs in every language.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: What were apples made for? If not to be eaten?
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: If pernicious, why do men and women crave them? Are
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: we but the sport of nature? Or creative malice? Were
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: we made to hunger, starve and perish? Or to feed
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: on thorns and thistles? With such food always before us?
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Poisoned fruits are always nauseous. Apples are delicious, wholesome. Take one,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Try one, Take a small one. Take a bitees it
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: won't hurt you. What if pleasure must be paid for
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: by some pain? Life without pleasure, what would it be
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: not worth living? Such the story told and retold with
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: a thousand variations every day and every hour since man
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: became a conscious being. Every woman born has heard it,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: or might have had she but listened, listened to her
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: own heart, even mother heart of eve, still beating rhythmic
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: inn each daughter's bosom. Happy, She who, when she hears it,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: knows the voice, howe'er dissembled to be his. The prince,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: the evils, who, in the disguise of angel, serpent, lover,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: friend or masher, is the same old world seduce her,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: knows his voice and flies the danger sad the fate
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: of her, who, flattered by his lying tongue persuasive, listens
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: till the mists of passion rise and hide her from
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: high heaven, till, with senses all bewildered in his arms,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: she lies, enraptured, lies until the mists subsiding leave her
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: bare and disenchanted, with remorse and shame and sorrow for
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: companions ever after. There be saints, though saintly women who
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: have fallen toward perdition. But the depths untold, have risen,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: conquer'd self and subdued evil, bean as shame, remorse and sorrow,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: and while upright ever after Saints not many, it may be,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: though not all such are recognized by their self righteousness,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: sinless sisters. Saints, when tried by truthful records, worthier, are
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: of admiration and of higher seats in heaven or of mansions.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: More luxurious as the case may be, no matter than
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: are they whose white souls spotless, passionless as moonlight, marbles,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: staturesque in solemn churchyards, all unstain'd by sins, black fingers live,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: untempted by the evil or by men who shun such
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: always end of chapter six b Chapter seven of Facts
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  Speaker 1: and Fancies by Orpheus efforts. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Recording by Linda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, BC.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven. Who's Your Farmer? Dressed in blue jeans, features
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: rugged weather beaten, full of kindness, though and feeling, eyes
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: deep set but clear and lively, white, mouth stained at
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: either angle by homegrown nicotina. Shoulders broad and slightly stooping arms,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: long hands, large fingers, naughty, all expressive of exposure toil
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: and strength and long endurance. Such the man that thus
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: addressed me first trip ever her talk on railroad, starting
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: out to see my daughter daughter Livin in Nebrasky. Haven't
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: seen her since her mother died two years ago in August.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Had the grip or something like it talk a powerful
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: sight of queene and a heap of drops and powders,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and bright smart of other truck two, But it seemed
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: like nothing helped her live together forty years, sir, Her
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: and me come next December, and we never had no
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: trouble TwixT ourselves. She was better though than I was.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I weren't always, as he spoke, a shade of feeling
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: sad in his strong face a moment, and he looked away.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: The trains stopped instantly, all interested and alert, said he cheerfully.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Wonder what they're stopping here for? Cows is on the
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: track or something more an like as not there killed
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: one killed a cow for me. Last summer was a
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: year the finest cow, sir, that you ever see. I
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: reckon best for milk or cheese or butter, and the
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: best disposed brute critter wouldn't talk one hundred dollars for
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: that cow, and I got twenty, had to pay a
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: lawyer fifty to get even what I did get better
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: loss it We poor farmers hasn't got no chance to
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: speak of. But can I begin monopolars too much? Odds
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: sir No Sam, Doris otter Sam make a speech once
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: down in Sulivent, for instance, where Sam's king and knows
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: his people mast fed Democrats, some calls them, telling how
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the country's ruined, how the people's rights is trumpled in
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: the dust by hordes of hirelings, tax assessors and collectors,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: railroad kings and heartless bankers, Robin right and left high handed,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: telling how the rich is getting richer, an the poor
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: is gitten all the time, just that much poorer, all
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: because the Democrats was cheated out of power in sixty
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Telling how the toiling masses groans and sweats and can't
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: make nothing. How the farmer's farms is mortgaged and they
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: all will soon be homeless. How them fellers, they're in
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Wall Street where that is none on em knows though
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: bloated bond holders. He calls them living high weekdays and Sundays,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: drinking wine instead of whiskey, wearing built shirts and kid
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: gloves too, whilst from orphans mouths they'd taken the poor witers.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Might I tell you Sam is powerful on the stump, sir,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: But I never voted for him. Couldn't swaller no such fought.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I knowed better, and I've heard Sam tell too many
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: scaly stories since I knowed him. Way back yonder somewhere's
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: in the fifties. Maybe folks that striflin' folks that's lazy,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: hain't got nothing, never will have, but is mad as
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: folks as has got, folks that drinks and loafs an gambols,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: whilst the women folk is washin' to support 'em and
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: their children all He's got too many of'em shouts when
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Sam talks of taxation, when he tells them how the
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: terrace robbing them of all their wages, and the millmen
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: iron and cotton is a piling up their millions. I
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: hain't no use for such folks. I don't see. But
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: what the countries doing fairly well myself, sir, I hate
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: nothing to complain of. I don't think the railway done
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: the square thing by me bout that cow, though not
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: exactly mand deal feel bad when I tell her the
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: whole story. She was Mandy's pet. That cow was. Mandy
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: raised her from a calf. Sea wanted her when she
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: got married, but we thought we couldn't spare her. I
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: give her a first rate farm though in Nebrasky. Whar
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going? Mandy married Jimmy Johnson. Mout have known jim
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  Speaker 1: No a stranger in these parts? Was you a general
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: or a colonel? See you wear that pretty loyal legion button.
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  Speaker 1: Them's my colors, all's like them? Mind me of my boy,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: poor Feller. He went out in sixty one, sir, fit
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: through all the war, was wounded thirteen times, Sir knowed him.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe he went out with the old twentieth, the best
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  Speaker 1: regiment that went out. What you the sergeant of the twentieth? Why,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: of course you'd know. My boy then cut his arm
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: off at the shoulder down there in front of Petersburg. Well,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: I'm mighty glad to see you. My boy often talked
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: about you. Talk to me a mother, how you stopped
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: the blood and saved his life once. And I've got
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: a letter now that you've then wit His mother bout
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: him talked about you and the chaplain Porter, how he
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: fed the wounded, done more good than way than praying.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: He lived till two years ago. Sir killed his mother.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: When he died. Two old man paused again a shadow
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: of deep feeling, once more saddened. He's strong, homely, manly features.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I looked out upon the landscape, but confess I did
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: not see much. Memories coming thick and fast, then some
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: with tears and some with blushes. For a moment blinded
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: me too, Porter, worthy man and soldier, my best friend
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: of days, departed a wide gulf of time between us.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Would that I were worthier now to recall all the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: love he bore me. But the old man soon recovered
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: and resumed the conversation. There's a lot of fellers that
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: I know of drawn pensions that weren't wounded. But I
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: hain't begrudgeon no one that enlisted and seen service. All
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: the money they can get now. I had rather see
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: a hundred unhurt soldiers getting pensions than to see one
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: badly wounded. Slighted by this grand old country that so
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: many fit and died fur not afraid, then I suggested
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: of bankrupting Uncle Samuel, paying pensions to impostors. Well, not much,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: the old man answered. Some folks seem to be afraid
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: that all the worlds are going to ruin. I hain't
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: one of that, there, stripe, though I don't train with that, Malitia.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: It's is natural though to some folks. I told Sam,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: last time I seen him, stopped at my house and
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: talked diner. Me and Sam were always good friends. I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: told Sam that he knowed more than I did me
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: be about tariffs and such things. But there is one
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: thing that I know, Sam, just as well as you do,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: or as if a preacher told me, and that is
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: concer discerning all this talk about the dangers threatening us.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Just now, I tell you as for folks that's got
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: good health and common sense, that is for judgment, don't
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: get drunk, nor bet on horses, work industrious late and early,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: says their prayers both night and morning. Takes good care
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: of wives and babies, and vote straight Republican. They don't
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: sceer now worth a damn sir. End of chapter seven,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Chapter eight of Facts and Fancies by Orpheus Efforts. This
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• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Chapter eight, brakemen called the name of station called in
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: language unfamiliar Volapuk or Choctow may be Blingnating was how
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: it sounded. Bloomington was what it meant, though Bloomington the
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: largest city TwixT the Wabash and Peoria, Oh, the Wabash
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: far behind, now crossed at Covington an hour. Since once
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: it was a grand, old river, flowing bankful, deep and
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: silent through a dark primeval forest whose majestic oaks and walnuts,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: lofty hickories and poplars, shady maples, leafy beaches, widespread white
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: armed sycamores, aspens, ash linden cherries gorgeous in their varied garments,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: glassed themselves in its smooth waters. Elms too priestly or
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: paternal in their aspect, seeming sent in it, sympathetic, vindictive
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: overlooking all the forest glorified its banks. After time, banks
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: now bear or torn and ragged. God, the glory of
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: the Wabash gone. Two people's prehistoric ancient peoples who once
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: builded temples, tombs, or strong defenses structure strange to modern
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: science on its banks and tributaries. People's whose remains archaic
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: witness their existence only have we not builded better than
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  Speaker 1: they did? We of the ages modern historic? Shall we
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  Speaker 1: too perish, perish, unaided, lost and forgotten? And Sir, Sir, oracle,
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  Speaker 1: are not our temples built of pure knowledge? Their transsepts
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: and knaves, all wide, high and roomy, where wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: science met as a college, banish the false and dispel
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  Speaker 1: the gloomy? Shall they not last? Outlast? Forms of matter, stone,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: bronze or iron, claye kernamics, pyramids, tombs, all things that
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: time shatters by slow decay or rapid dynamics. Be this
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  Speaker 1: as it may. One thing is certain. You will and
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  Speaker 1: I will vanish forever, no matter what stage we play on,
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  Speaker 1: the curtain will fall, and so end are supremist endeavor
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  Speaker 1: end of chapter eight, Chapter nine of Facts and Fancies
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  Speaker 1: by Orpheus Everetts. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Lindame Nielsen, Vancouver, BC. Chapter nine, bling, neting,
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  Speaker 1: brakeman repeated. Train stopped for a moment. Only passengers got
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  Speaker 1: off and on, though one a fleshy woman, flurried, wheezing, sweating, fanning,
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  Speaker 1: got on fussily. She found a seat and filled it full,
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  Speaker 1: so wide her garments, found it difficult to settle all
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  Speaker 1: at once, postfully found two train, then in full motion
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  Speaker 1: that she'd left a silk umbrella, left it settin, so
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  Speaker 1: she said, they're in the depot by the winder. Will
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  Speaker 1: somebody stop the cars for just a minute while I
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  Speaker 1: get it? Can't wait there. I know I'd do it,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: told Matilde, for I started that I'd lose it. Cost
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  Speaker 1: three dollars marked down, had been from six fifty. Had
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: an old one might have carried jest as well as not,
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  Speaker 1: but didn't wish I had now don't They never stop,
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  Speaker 1: no trains when they get started slamming to the door
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: behind him entered. Then the train conductor, tickets, please, he
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  Speaker 1: sharply uttered, in his speech and in his manner both
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: important and impatient. Soon he stood beside the woman, thus
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: lamenting her umbrella. Ticket please. The woman fumbled, first her pockets,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: then her satchel, stood erect and shook her garments, vowed
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: she bought one, must have lost it. Disconcerted, face grown
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  Speaker 1: wetter down, she sat deeply embarrassed. Fair please, growled the
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: cur conductor, growing more and more impatient, face and fingers,
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  Speaker 1: plainly saying hurry up. I want your money. What do
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  Speaker 1: I care what you've lost or how you lost it?
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait? Now? Did he never know his mother?
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  Speaker 1: Did he never have a sister? Steadily the woman studied
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: his hard face a moment. Then she, having made her
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  Speaker 1: mind up deftly from her wide, capacious bosom, wherein much
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: beside lay hidden d fourth an old worn port monnet,
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  Speaker 1: and astonished found her ticket. End of chapter nine, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: ten of Facts and Fancies by Orpheus Everetts. This LibriVox
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain recording by Linda Bury Nielsen, Vancouver, BC.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Chapter ten miles of Cornfield's miles of stubble, telling of
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: a garnered harvest, goodly houses, barns and orchardsords, shady grows
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: and sunny gardens, herds of cattle, hogs and horses, Plumen
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: turning dark brown, furrows, windmills lifting limpid water. Such the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: features of the landscape far and near, in all directions changed.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: How changed since first I saw this then unbroken, boundless meadow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the grandeur of that vision, gazing then with boyish
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: wonder on a world before undreamed of, as I now
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  Speaker 1: dim eyed recall it, how I stood and looked and
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: listened nature worship strong within me and the infinite around me.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Drinking in the revelation of eternity and distance. How I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: lost all sense of selfhood, and my soul became ecstatic
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: until I heard inspiring voices, new mysterious, solemn, awful voices
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: of the vast, all not me, the immensity of matter,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: time and space then calling to me. Since that vision,
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  Speaker 1: I have seen much, much remembered, much forgotten. Nothing though
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: of life's experience now appears in stronger colors, mid the
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  Speaker 1: shadows of its sunset, or recalls sublimer feeling. Since I've
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: looked upon old ocean in its many moods and aspects,
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  Speaker 1: heard its voice when tempest tortured, like the wail of
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  Speaker 1: a world's anguish. Listen to its gentle murmur when caressed
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  Speaker 1: by war zafhrs, soft as dove notes, and as soothing.
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  Speaker 1: Since have climbed high mountains, reaching regions of eternal silence,
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  Speaker 1: undisturbed save by the wings of unseen winds in rapid motion.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: Since have seen great armies meet in deadly conflict, lines
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  Speaker 1: of battle, blue and gray lines, miles extending waiting while
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  Speaker 1: opposing cannon herald challenge and defiance watched the brave battillions forward,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: now advancing, now retiring, now confused, and now in order, firing, cheering, cheering, firing, falling, cursing, groaning, dying,
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  Speaker 1: All the dreadful din of battle, smoke and dust the
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: front concealing. Streams of wounded, flowing rearward, soon appear, many bleeding,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: some be grimed and pattered only, some on stretchers, some
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: on horses, some by willing comrades aided. Far too many
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: intermingled with alas poor human nature. Combatants hoove, lost their courage,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: seeking shelter from war's freury and death. Frightful horrid visage.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Now a sudden silence startles by sharp contrast. Anxious watchers.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Now again the battle rages on are left with greater fury.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Now the right assails, and now the center moves, unmasked
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: to slaughter. Twenty thousand men have fallen. Still, the fight
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: is heady, louder, louder, roar, the angry cannon louder, the
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: incessant rattle of innumerable rifles. Colors fall again, uplifted by
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: the living, nearer deserted, though the dead lie thick around them, ambulances,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: stretcher bearers, surgeons, chaplains, all are busy. Yonder sits the
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: great commander on his war horse, all attention sphinx, light
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: still without emotion, seeing through the clouds of battle, visions
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: of his country's glory. No one knows what he is thinking.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Now with due salute approaches an old corpse commander saying,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: men are falling fast in front. There shall I not
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: withdraw my forces? Are they falling on the other side
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: as many think you? General? Is the answer prompt, decisive,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: such with him the only question such deportent of his presence,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: such the tenor of his genius. War means battle, battle killing.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: Who can spare the greater number fighting to a finish
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: will be victor in the end, Always to and from him, anxious,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: earnest horsemen flying hither thither do his bidding without shrinking,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: often difficult and dangerous, till at length the sun goes
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: down on a great combat, undecided, welcome by both hosts,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: the darkness that divides them, though tomorrow they shall meet again,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: undaunted and sad sight for men or angels, if there
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: be such fabled beings, I have seen the field of
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: battle when deserted by the living, strewed with dead men
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: and the debris of a long, destructive combat, bravely fought
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: by forces equal fought by men of mold, heroic leaving
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: memories immortal. Seen it when but dimly lighted by the
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: sad moon, half in shadow, Seen it when illuminated by
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: the early morning sunbeams, magnifying every feature of its ghastly presentation.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Features time cannot efface, nor memory refuse to mirror other scenes,
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: sublime or simple. Many many now confront me. But as
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: life's romantic story nears, its clothes and fancy falters on
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: its wings by age enfeebled, this old vision of the
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Prairies reappears in all its grandeur. And again I feel
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the universe around me, And once more
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: I hear the voices of the infinite, all not me, calling, calling,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: and I answer, coming coming from and to the ind
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: of Chapter ten, Chapter eleven of Facts and Fancies by
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: Orpheus Everetts. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Recording by Lynda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, BC, Chapter eleven. Freight
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: train on a side track, standing sidetracked, we also in
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: waiting stock cars yonder bearing cattle from the plains to
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: city market, and predestined slaughter, uncomplaining patient martyrs, who could
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: look upon them standing thus imprisoned, thus predestined, and not
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: feel some touch a pity, pity, pity? What were cattle
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: made for but for beef and leather, milk and labor,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: for man's uses, man's exclusive use or pleasure, So still
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: argues thee conceded, boastful, narrow minded, selfish, self styled lord
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: of all creation, who, in historonic god garnments on life's
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: stage a moment strutting, thus recites his vain eulagens ah,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: How perfectly adapted to man's appetites and needs are the
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: supplies of bounteless nature beef and mutton. For example, bread
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: may be the staff of life, but meat gives youthful
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: strength and courage. How could men get on without it?
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  Speaker 1: How delicious, how nutritious, savory to nose and palate Gods
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: and men alike, Delighting beef for breakfast, beef for dinner,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: boiled or roasted cold for supper. There is nothing more
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: appeasing talk of chicken, talk of turkey, canvas back, or terrapin, salmon,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: shad or mackerel, oysters, crabs, and all such things. Nothing
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: takes the place of beef still be for all, both
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: rich and poor folk, Beef for kings, and beef for subjects,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: Beef for armies, can by armor. What a gift from
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: God to man it? How beneficent, indeed are all the
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: ways of providence. See how God provides for mankind. Hard
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: on cattle, Well it may be, what is that to
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: you or me? Though? Should we not be proud and
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: thankful that we are not cattle? That we were not
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: made to be consumed by brutes of still higher order?
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: That whatever else God made, he made for us our
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: own uses. Made earth first for us to live on,
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  Speaker 1: then the sun to give us daylight, then the moon
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: and stars for night lamps, and all living things besides
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: us eatable for our maintenance. Proud and thankful to be
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: cared for thus by such a gracious being, an omniscent,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: omnipresent and omnipotent creator. Egoistic stuff and nonsense. Man is
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: not a favorite being, pet or protege of Heaven, nor
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: of Earth, nor regions under if there be such, Man
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: is cared for neither more nor less than other beings
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: born of force and matter, each adapted to surroundings by
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: its needs, each responding to environments and uses, all determined
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: and accomplished by the demi urgic spirit that in matter
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: is inherent, moving it and ever from it, molding endless
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: forms of being. Man's begotten, born, and nourished, lives and
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: dies like other mammals. Every organ of his body, every
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: appetite and function, every passion and emotion, every gesture and
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: expression of intelligence or feeling, has its like in other beings,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: beings of a lower order. Facts disprove this proposition of
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: design premeditated on the part of God or Nature, making
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: all things for man's uses, man from cares and want
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: exempting true man may be is superior to all other
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: forms of matter, to all other living beings in his
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: aptitude for knowledge, but he's not exempt from perils, penalties,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: and hard conditions that environ him in common with all
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: other things organic, and compel him still to struggle for existence,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: for the most part, painfully and unsuccessful, falling by the wayside,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: dying all along the rugged pathway between infancy and old age,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: dying of his wants and weakness, accidents and imperfections, famine,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: pestilence and earthquakes, fire and water all destroy men when
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: subjected to their action. Notwithstanding God's protection, Give man but
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: a grain of stritchina, and he died eyes as wolves
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: or dogs die. Twenty thousand human beings die of snake
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: bites now in India every year. What were snakes made
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: for tigers too? Man eating tigers? Was man made for
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: tiger diet? What the devil interferes with God's designs and
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: thwarts his purpose? Oh the devil, Oh the folly, weakness, vanity,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: presumption of poor man, the self deceiver. This the truth
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: is now apparent. In old eras prehistoric, all the families
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: of man were far below the present level of the
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: higher highest brute. Then with the lowest man contested common
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: planes of bee equals. But through many ages since then,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: man has outgrown his near neighbors. A few ounces of
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: brain matter slowly added to man's for brain, by its
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: own inherent force, has in the course of time increased
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: his capability of knowing, and so placed him where he
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: is the thought crowned leader of the column of all
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: living things, still moving from the simple to the complex
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: in both form and adaptation, in a steady stream of progress. Yes,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: those ounces of brain matter quite peculiar matter. Brain is
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: make man wiser, better, stronger, stronger, better, because wiser, wiser,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: because wisdom is the bloom of knowledge in full blossom.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: End of chapter eleven. Chapter twelve of Facts and Fancies
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: by Orpheus Everetts. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: Recording by Lindamen Nielsen, Vancouver, b c. Chapter twelve. Woman fainted,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: fell unconscious, overcome by heat or other caused mysterious water. Water,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: cried the fleshy woman, flurried, she who'd lost her silk umbrella.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: Half a score or more of sisters were beside her
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: in a moment, pallid, limp and lifeless lay the fallen form,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: which they uplifted, rubbed and fanned, and duly sprinkled, doing
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: something without knowing what to do or how to do it.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: Four or five excited women, all at one vociferated, is
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: there a doctor on this car? Nor was called? Thus
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: made unheeded? From a rearward seat. Uprising came a man
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: no longer youthful nor yet old, a man whose presence
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: was commanding and inspiring grieve. He was in his demeanor
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: yet not sad, austare, nor sullen. Self possessed but not conceited.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: In his manner, he was manly, gently pushing by the
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: women patient's wrist. He held a moment, taking in the situation,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: while the fluttering flock around him chattered and interrogated, What
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: do'ye think's the matter? Doctor? Prostration? Nervous? Is it Isn't?
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: It looks to me more like heart failure? And so
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: many of it? Now, Ain't it fits? I have a
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: neighbor that it has fits acts just like her. Maybe
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: it's hysterics. Ain't it awful? Pale? She must have fainted?
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: Were among the interjections, all of which he failed to notice. Then,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: without a word of warning or a question from his pocket,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: he drew forth a knife and thrust its long, keen
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: blade beneath her corsage, ripping it from belt to neck, bend,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: all the sisters standing speechless, done with fear or consternation,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: then with dignity retiring, he resumed his seat unchallenged. Instantly,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: the patient gasped, and her bare chest resumed its functions,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: soon to consciousness, returning garments quickly pinned up, she reclined
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: in moody silence trained me while at a way station.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: Having stopped, the silent doctor, unobserved, took his departure. Never
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: seen just such a doctor in my born days, never, never,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: said the first one to recover from amazement the fat woman.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: Don't believe he is a doctor, said another, gravely nodding.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: Run her round, though mighty sudden. Yes, he knowed what
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: he was doin, said the practical old farmer. She's a
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: come to if he'd let her, if he'd waited, he
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: n touched her, said one. Neither wise nor witty. Seems
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: to me he might have told us to unhook her,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: not have spoiled her. Nice new garments if they were tight,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: Nice new garments, if they were tight, says another, contemplating
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: with compassion the sad victim. They were not tight. Fools
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: to think so, the idea, screamed. The patient snapped like
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: lightning when he cut him. Slyly, whispered the old farmer,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: with a merry scene. I'll chuckle. Something must have been
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: the matter. Folks don't fall that way for nothing, said
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: a quiet, thoughtful woman. All she needed was a little
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: camp fire or jimmicky ginger. I most always have some
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: with me. But somehow this time forgot it. It is
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: better than a doctor when there's nothing much the matter,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: said a self complacent female with an air of satisfaction.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Better anything than doctor's sick or well. I hate despise
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: them self, conceited, false pretenders. I can guess as well
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: as they can what's the matter, and their poisons. Well,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: I'd rather take my chances with disease than with their doses.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: They can't cure and don't believe you. All they care
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: for is your money, said a thin lipped, sharp nosed
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: woman of uncertain age and doubtful mental soundness. As I thought,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: then you must have been strangely favored to have lived
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: as long as you have without feeling the greatest need
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: of without knowing the greatest worth of men, whom I
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: think of all men are worthiest of admiration, confidence, and
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: true affection, said a woman whose appearance indicated blood and breeding,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: though but plainly dressed and poorly. It doesn't matter what
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: my life's been, nor how long I've lived, nor whether
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: I've been sick or well or sinful. I have reason
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: to know better than to trust your wicked doctors as
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: some women do. I know of holding up their shameless
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: faces in the presence of their betters, said the sharp
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: tongued woman, flushing. I'm not curious nor inquiring about personal experience.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: Life does not always leave its legends written plainly on
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: our faces. What we are to day, though, is the
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: sum and sequence of our have beens. And I speak
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: from my experience when I say I think our best
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: friends and most useful men are doctors. Not your ill
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: bred quacks, pretenders, ignorant and bold impostors advertising nostrum vendors,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: but learn men endowed by nature with the qualities of healers,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: men of conscience and knowledge, sympathetic, patient, constant, helpful with
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: their heads and hands, too gentler than the gentlest woman,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: kinder than the kindest father, whether we are sick or sinful,
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  Speaker 1: said the lady, with some feeling. Yes, I know they're
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  Speaker 1: kind to sinners, too kind some of them I've seen
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  Speaker 1: are much disposed to sin themselves too. Better far the
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  Speaker 1: consolation of religious and true men than the false kindness
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  Speaker 1: of such liars. There is more healing in the prayers
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  Speaker 1: of faithful men and women than in all the drugs,
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  Speaker 1: ever compounded. A clear conscience and pure water, open windows
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  Speaker 1: and clean bedclothes, sleep, and food are good for sick folks,
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  Speaker 1: but they need the help of God too. As for sinners,
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  Speaker 1: they should seek for consolation, doing penance for their sins,
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  Speaker 1: until forgiven there is no other road to comfort. All
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  Speaker 1: the kindness doctors do them is not kindness when the incomes,
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  Speaker 1: said the thin lip women warmly. You perhaps have never
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  Speaker 1: known the needs of other ministryations, always clean and always
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  Speaker 1: well fed, never sinning, never soul sick. You have never
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  Speaker 1: felt forsaken by both God and Man, an outcast, homeless, hopeless, prayerless, voiceless, faith, destroyed, love, deserted,
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  Speaker 1: or transfigured into hatred, all because of some great error
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  Speaker 1: which nor time, nor prayers, nor penance could correct nor compensate.
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  Speaker 1: Never felt the insurrection of a proud soul against customs,
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  Speaker 1: cruel laws, injust exactions, crushed and beaten into silence or
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  Speaker 1: submission by the blows of ignorance, high handed cruel. You
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  Speaker 1: have never had a husband, once beloved, become a drunkyard, terrible, inhuman, brutal, irreclaimable, untruthful,
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  Speaker 1: lost to every sense of duty, lost to every sense
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  Speaker 1: of pity. Yet the father of your children curs perhaps
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  Speaker 1: in their begetting no escape from his embraces, cannot therefore
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  Speaker 1: comprehend the needs of souls thus bound and tortured. What
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  Speaker 1: are prayers or exhortations to a woman thus environed, trodden, underfoot, degraded.
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  Speaker 1: What a pastor's cool assurance that God's will, howe'er mysterious,
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  Speaker 1: must be cheerfully accepted. That to murmur is rebellious, and
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: rebellion forfeits heaven. That a martyr's crown is glorious to
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: be prized above all riches. What his mockery of sorrow
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  Speaker 1: saying at the feet of Jesus, you must lay down
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  Speaker 1: all your burdens and ask him to bear them for you, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: when the consolation that you need is bread and butter
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  Speaker 1: for your children, and protection from the blows of a
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  Speaker 1: mad monster. When to feel a strong arm round you,
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  Speaker 1: though but for a moment only, and to hear a
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  Speaker 1: word of kindness spoken with appreciation of your needs and
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  Speaker 1: inmost cravings, without look of ostantation, pity, or reproach, would
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  Speaker 1: help you do more toward your soul's salvation if in peril,
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  Speaker 1: than the counsel or the prayers of peous persons doctors too,
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  Speaker 1: are sometimes priestly more than priests in their relations to
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  Speaker 1: the sorrowful and troubled. Not alone in times of sickness
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  Speaker 1: or the martyrdom of childbirth, but when death invades our
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  Speaker 1: households and lays hands upon our dearest, when God's mercy
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  Speaker 1: is veiled from us and his justice darkly hidden, when
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  Speaker 1: our hearts are sore with sorrow and our eyes with
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  Speaker 1: grief are blinded. They know best than how to help us.
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  Speaker 1: No more our strength and weakness than our pastors do
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  Speaker 1: or can know, said the lady of experience. Let them
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  Speaker 1: touch you if you wish it. I had rather be excused,
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  Speaker 1: though I don't wish their arms around me. I've no
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  Speaker 1: taste for such behavior, said the doctor hating woman. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: do some good. Sometimes get well paid for it, too,
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  Speaker 1: I think, said reflexively the woman who had sung the
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: praise of Ginger paid. The doctors give more money, time,
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  Speaker 1: and charitable labor to the sick and poor and friendless
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  Speaker 1: than all others put together, said the rather eulogistic advocate
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: of ideal doctors. Men too often underrated by the flippant
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: and conceited doctors, interposed the preacher who had listened with
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: attention to this womanly discussion. Doctors in a certain sense
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: are all right, good men, but there's something wrong with
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: science modern science. Doctors all should be believers, but they
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: are not, not half of them. I don't know of
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  Speaker 1: half a dozen downright earnest Christian doctors. Know not more
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  Speaker 1: than one whose faith and practice justify the title. He's
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  Speaker 1: not worth much as a doctor. Some admit that they
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  Speaker 1: believe in a first cause or supreme ruler of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: but do not trust God's word for information, nor believe
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ was God incarnate, nor the logos by
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  Speaker 1: which all things were created, Yet admit that such a
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  Speaker 1: person lived and died a great exemplar moral teacher, and
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  Speaker 1: all that, but nothing more. Some are agnotus. Do not know,
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  Speaker 1: they say, and therefore don't believe. They say that they
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  Speaker 1: cannot without knowledge. Still they think they know a good
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  Speaker 1: deal more than others atheists. They are, in fact the
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: followers of Herbert Spencer, Darwin Huxley, Tyndall, Haeckel, Andrew White
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: and Fisk and Winchell, and that crew of learned scoundrels
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  Speaker 1: who deny that God made Adam out of dust A
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: perfect being through whom Sin came by transgression on his part,
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  Speaker 1: thus undermining the foundation of our faith in Christian dogma,
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  Speaker 1: Man's loss, condition and God's plan for his redemption. I
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: don't know what is the matter. I've a brother, a
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  Speaker 1: good doctor, and a good man too, as the world goes,
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  Speaker 1: was before he studied science, a believer and church member.
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  Speaker 1: But he doubts or disbelieves. Now says he thinks with
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: Briggs and Smith that scripture may not be unerring. Don't
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  Speaker 1: believe that inspiration comes from sources supernatural. Thinks he knows
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  Speaker 1: as much as I do, or as any other man
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  Speaker 1: does about God and Hell and Heaven. Calls them myths
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: or mental concepts modified by modern culture. I've done all
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  Speaker 1: I could to save him, but I can't convince the
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  Speaker 1: fellow Science is the last invention of the devil for
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  Speaker 1: man's ruin. I've no ill will toward the doctor's but
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: I'd rather do without them than to encourage modern science
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: by endorsing their great virtues. Do you know that sharp
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: nosed women that so down on your perfession. I have
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: knowed her forty years now. She's a widder, had a daughter,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: an some property, a doctor, one of these your travelin fellers,
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: smart as lightning and good lukin, made love to her,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: got her money, an then ran away with marthy. I
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: don't blame her for beIN sassy, said the gentleman in
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: blue jeans, in a sort of whisper to me. Do
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: you know the other woman? Said I also confidential. No,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: I don't exactly know her, But she hin't no common woman.
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  Speaker 1: She's got sense, an, she's got courage. An's as eloquant
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  Speaker 1: as doris. Doctors are no longer needed if they ever
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: were as healers of the sick. I mean such doctors
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: as depend on drugs to cure us. We have doctors
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: now who teach us how to cure ourselves without them,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: More efficient, less expensive, said a bright faced, sprightly woman
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: with an air of transcendental esoteric theosophic sublimated satisfaction, looking
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: through her gold rimmed glasses. Faith cure, queried then the preacher, Well, no,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: not exactly, faith cure. Christian science is the name of
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: this new method of restoring health and vigor to the body,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: said the young enthusiastic convert to a fad, preposterous. What's
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: the difference? I don't see it, said the preacher, or
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: half growled it. Faith cures im ply miracle and are effected,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: if at all, by supernatural power, suspending natural laws, responsive
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: to the supplications of the faithful special acts of God,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: while science cures indeed by application of great principles eternal
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: doing violence to lo'na, Christian science is true science. That
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: is all there is about it, said the plucky little woman,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: when by whom was it discovered, as the somewhat baffled preacher,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: Christian science was discovered and has since been taught to
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: others by a famous Boston lady, missus Eddy. Her book
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: tells you all about it. Get it, read it. It
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: will do you good to do so, said the woman,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: still undaunted. Christian science devilish nonsense. Why call Christian? Why
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: call science? I suppose because it's neither neither Christ nor
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: the Apostles ever said a word about it. They were
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: healers of the set to pure immitigating humbug, sneered the preacher,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: much disgusted. You may think so, others do not quite
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: as capable of judging, said the advocate of science versus faith,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: with smile sarcastic. The biggest fools in God's world are
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: silly women always chasing after foolish faths of some kind,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: said the ministral critic. Christian science is no fad, sir.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: Names are nothing, Facts are potent. Principles are worthy credence
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: only when by facts supported an You may have heard
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: the legend that a man is as he thinketh, which
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: is truth, and Christian science only makes an application of
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: that principle. It cures too. There can be no doubt
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: about it, said the philosophic female. Ever cure consumption or
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: a cancer or a case of smallpox, couldn't cure a
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: hoss i reckon, said the skeptical old farmer, waking at
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: me very slyly. No nor mules nor human asses, sharply,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: snapped the witty woman. The joke was old, but we
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: all laughed, everyone who heard, except the ancient maiden prim
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: and proper and the sentimental widow leaning on the mash
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: shoulder end of chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen of Facts and
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: Fancies by Orpheus Everett's This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Recording by Lindam Nielsen, Vancouver, BC. Chapter thirteen
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: stopped again, sidetracked, waiting and express do here to pass us.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: Strange that I should be reminded, in this place, and
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: at this moment by a word that I see yonder
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: on a badly battered freight car, of a name that
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: off awakens memories, not always painful name, in fact, though
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: never mentioned, that is never quite forgotten. Name of one, however,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: distant dead, perhaps in proper person, as a spirit always
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: answers promptly to my spirit, calling comes as now and
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: stands before me. Oh, how subtle are the threads of
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: thought that enter every fabric by imagination? Woven, yet how
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: perfect many forms are Memory, though age depletes, it holds
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: in store a world of stuff still from which fancy
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: ever draws forth endless threads of many colors, weaving, weaving, ever,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: weaving till death hides both loom and weaver. Shadow falling eastward,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: lengthened Eastern skies are tinging purple, shading into greenish opal
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: Western clouds are blushing crimson, conscious of their blooming beauty.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: Wreck ahead will be delayed here several hours, no telling
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: how long, so the officers report. Now passengers get out
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: and wonder up and down the track at leisure, not
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: yet sundown still, the air grows somewhat cooler, more refreshing.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: Masher and the widow, strolling find wildflowers along the wayside. Oh,
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: how lovely, how delightful, how exquisite, and how fragrant are
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: the widows exclamings as he plucks and she receives them,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: calming flowers on which she's trodden all her life in
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: woodland pastures. Some she pins on her full corsage. Some
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: she fastens to his lapal, touched by rosy tinted fingers,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: thus transforming country posies into rare, delightful blossoms. One coquettishly
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: gets tangled in the lace above her bosom, but she
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: kissed it er it fell there? Was it art or
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: was it nature? Love's an artist and magician, Nature's handiwork,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: transforming by its touch the homiest objects, taking on new
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: forms and colors. How thus beautiful and garnished. Even Bridget's brow.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: Hiberian wears a diadem. All Queenlye and her face although
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: prognacious rivals, deities superb matchless. Shakespeare said as much. You'll
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: find it in the most delightful drama and imaginative poem,
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: wherein he makes Puck and auburn play fantastic tricks with lovers.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: My weak fancies are but fireflies when contrasted with his
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: lightning on our left. A city graveyard now attracts my observation.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: Monumental marbles standing ghost like white beneath dark pine trees,
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: all as silent as the sleepers over which they keep
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: long Virgil touched by the departing sunbeams, are both picturesque
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: and gloomy. Tinging fancies light with sadness. Will the sleepers
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: whom they watch or wait to live or unwait slumber?
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: Questions old yet? Who can answer what a mystery is
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: being life and death? Who knows their secrets? If life
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: ends in death? Or death is the beginning of a
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: new life? Savage people's animistic all expect to live forever,
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: passing through death's dark defiles two happier hunting grounds hereafter.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: Christians too, the most enlightened, live in hourly expectation or
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: belie their creed. Confessions of a blast from Gabriel's trumpet,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: at the sound of which the dead shall all arise
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: from Adam down two, the last infant, born and buried
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: all arise as if from sleep and after judgment live forever,
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: some in happiness, the faithful who believe in Christian dogmas,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: all the rest in awful torment. The fact is that
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: no one living thinks or can think of not being
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: consciousness is never conscious of unconsciousness, and therefore self can
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: never think of self as not existent or as lifeless.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: Browning might have said that better, if not more obscurely. Perhaps,
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: Pagan art Grecian Egyptian here survives informs, memorial obelisks, Cornythian columns, tablets, slabs,
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: and urns, pedestaled side by side with Christian symbols, crosses, crowns,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: and forms. Angelic women dressed in wings and nightgowns, vainly
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: strive to stay the tide of time and rescue from oblivion.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Fameless names, how soon forgotten, vulgar passions find expression. Also
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: in this art, scepturial vanity and pride protect chius are displayed,
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: as well as sorrow, faith and hope and sweet affliction.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: See you pyramid of grain See Yon pyramid of granite, Massive, high,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: severely polished, cost a hundred thousand dollars. What does it commemorate?
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: Who was he who lies beneath it? Hero martyr, statesman, poet. No,
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: a man who made a fortune, made it by transactions, shady,
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: lived by all his neighbors, hated, died. This monument was
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: builded by executors he willed it. Such is not the
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: legend sculptured on its base. But this is truthful face
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: religious mythiopoeic concepts ancient modern dogmas here likewise are simpolized.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: See that grateful female figure wing to represent an angel
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: sympathizing with the sorrow of a stricken human mother, bringing
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: to her heavenly comfort. See yon winged Apollo blowing with
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: strained cheeks, celestial trumpet heralding the resurrection looked for by
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: all honest Christians, hoped for by the unbelieving. See that
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: dove the Holy Spirit resting on an infant's gravestone. And
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: behold the crucifixion done in marble full apathos, or would
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: be but for some draping soul, seistic of the figure
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: Jesus on the cross, sublimest of all symbols. And yet
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: why soul? Other crosses have been borne by other men
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: who've died upon them, Men not God's a different story.
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: This the legend of Christ's crist is not as you,
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: but as I read it. Legend of the Cross, God
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: the Great, the soul, creator of both heaven and Earth,
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: sustainer of the universe, and ruler, disappointed by man's conduct
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: from the day of his creation, after waiting many ages, waiting, hoping,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: and despairing of himself to counsel, saying, I have tried
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: since I made man to keep him in subordination, humble, worshipful, obedient,
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: walking in my ways, appointed, But my efforts have all
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: failed me. Every purpose has been baffled, baffled by his maginations,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: instigated by the evil, that malicious old time traitor, striving
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: ever to defrone me. Ignorant from the beginning. To keep man,
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: I have endeavored knowledge, discontents, the knowing, when still kept
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: in subduration. But he listened to a woman who had
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: listened to the evil, and did eat of fruit for
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: bidden food that all his senses quickened, senses through which
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: knowledge came, and he was ignorant no longer for this
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: first offense. I cursed him, cursed and drove him from
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: my presence, banished him from lovely Eden, fearing knowing if
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: I did not, he would seek and find another fruit
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: yet growing in my garden, still more potent, which should
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: he eat, would transform him, make him equal to myself,
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: a god immortal. Long he wandered, many children. Many generations followed,
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: born perverse, though loving, evil, growing worse as they grew
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: older and more numerous, and more knowing, hating me with
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: silent hatred, worse than noisy accusation, dreaming still of paradise,
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: though longing still for life eternal, finely indignant, angry, hopeless
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: of all further effort, oft repenting. Having made man, I
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: determined to destroy him, him and every living thing I
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: for his maintenance created. So I moved the waters under,
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: opened wide, the windows over, caused a rain to fall, unceasing,
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: forty days and forty nights too, till the highest mountain
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: ranges were with water deeply covered, and all life on
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: earth extinguished, all except a saving remnant, Save the earth
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: again to people, spared to spare me all the trouble
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: of renewed creative labor. But one man then was found
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: worthy of the trust I contemplated, perfect in his generation,
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: walking with me him, I cause to build a boat
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: before the flood came into which, with all things needful,
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: he and his wife, sons and their wives, and some
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: pairs of every other living thing bespurred and reptile, were
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: secured to serve my purpose. Oh, how desolate the earth looked,
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: looked to me to even me, then, me, who from
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: eternity had calmly contemplated chaos until moved to try creation
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: as a grand experimental exercise of power, long latent, and
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: I felt a sad new sense of loss and grief
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: and loneliness. Then I waited, watched, and waited for the
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: waters to assage, for the earth to be repeopled, for
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: the coming generations to refill the vacant places. With that man,
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: I covenented, promised him that I would never flood the
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: earth again in anchor, nor do other things I had
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: done on account of the corruption of all flesh as
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: I had found it, blessed him and all his family,
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: bade them multiply, profusely and replenish the waste places, thinking
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: and expecting that he and all of his descendants would
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: be grateful and obedient, walking with me in my ways
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: and never causing me displeasure. But alas the ancient leavin
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: flowing from the heart of Adam moved their blood and
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: they too wandered in forbidden paths, becoming self conceited and ambitious,
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: doing not as I would have them, Proud, presumptuous, and ungrateful,
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: finely grown, strong, and many thinking me far off or sleeping.
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: They can see the bold design of gaining access to
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: high Heaven, where my dwelling place hath long been, by
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: constructing a high tower, and thus accomplishing by cutting the
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: great end of aspiration, the one thing so long denied them.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: When I saw this, saw their purpose, all of one mind,
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: all conspiring, busy planning, busy building, building high the tower
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: of Babel. After personally inspecting what they'd done, and contemplating
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: what they might do if not hindered, having promised not
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: to drown them, I determined to disperse them. So I
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: sent them all a whirling down the valleys, up the mountains,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: every one a language speaking different from every other. Thus
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: I thwarted their bad purpose. Thus I spared the realms
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: of Heaven from their insolent intrusion, spared myself humiliation. I
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: knew Lufaser was with them, and secured my throne from
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: danger by disorganizing labor from the man. I thus dispersed
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: have many peoples, emanated peoples who all worship God's but
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: do not worship Me the greatest. But one now of
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: all the number, knows my name, calls upon it in
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: an attitude of worship, praying, praising, sacrificing, and though chosen
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: and adopted as my own, peculiar people whom I promise
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: to make countless as the sands upon the seashore, superseding
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: every other, both by increase and by conquest, watching over
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: all their movements, guarding, guiding, and preserving, doing for them
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: many wonders out of Egypt, safely leading them from bondage,
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: sore and cruel, making for them a safe passage through
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: the deep sea, and overwhelming Pharaoh's proud pursuing army in
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: the wilderness when starving, feeding them with quails and manna
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: in an arid desert, also from a dry rock, causing
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: water to gush forth in streams, refreshing, fighting many battles
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: for them with exterminating slaughter, giving them the spoils of nations,
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: lands and flocks and maids and money, giving all that
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: man could wish for all except the one thing wanted
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: for which still man longs, aspiring still this people. This
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: same people does not love me, does not trust me.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: Would they were not so ungrateful, so self willed, and
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: so self seeking, so like Adam and his consort, whose
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: creation I regret still often now in grief, exclaiming Israel,
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: Oh my Israel, Would that I had never made man,
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: or that I might still reclaim thee, or that Adam
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: had not eaten, or that Apple had not listened to
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: that woman, or that, knowing good and evil, good from evil,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: had not chosen evil always only gods can know the feeling,
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: the desire, and need of worship. Strange the use man
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: makes of knowledge, strange perversity of reason, striving thereby to
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: discredit all my ways and all my words too, All
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: that I have said or written for their past and
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: future welfare, written by the hand of Moses, spoken by
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: the mouths of prophets, and attested true by wonders that
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: no other God could equal. Strange that men can doubt
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: or question true, so obvious and simple truth that babes
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: believe undoubting when repeated by their mothers. It must be
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: that I've mistaken man's mature comprehension. Can it be? I've
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: often wondered if I did not err in making man
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: too capable of thinking, if I did or did not
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: err in making him too fond of women, if I
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: did not also err in making women too attractive, too persuasive,
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: too convincing, making both too speculative, curious about the future,
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: curious about themselves and about everything created. I have wondered
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: why I did not make them different altogether. If I
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: might not have prevented Lucuser from gaining access to my
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: garden and protected in her ignorance and weakness the poor
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: woman from temptation. Was I thoughtless? Was I careless? I
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: had power to do so, surely. And I've sometimes wondered
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: also if I have not been to hasty in my temper,
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: to exacting in requirements, and too jealous in my intercourse
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: with mortals, too revengeful in my anger, too unmerciful in judgment,
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: notwithstanding all my goodness in my dealings with my people,
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: but regrets our unveiling punishment has proved a failure. I've
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: determined now to change my tactics and my manner toward men.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: I will call him back to Eden. I'll invite him
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: to partake of that same fruit he longed so long
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: for I will ask him to appease his hunger and
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: become immortal, but to seem myself consisted still, my sovereignty maintaining,
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: I will tell him he must die. But death is
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: only change of garments that will gain for him admission
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: into states of life eternal. That the sins of Adams
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: shall be expatiated and forgiven, and my honor vindicated by
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: a sacrifice, unequaled sacrifice that I will offer to myself
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: for man's redemption. This I'll do, and to accomplish the
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: great purpose indicated justifying self to self and reconciling man
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: to me, I will perform a miracle that will startle
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: and convince him. I will cause a youthful virgin to
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: the Royal House of David afterward to be related without
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: sin or carnal knowledge, to conceive and bear a son,
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  Speaker 1: who among men shall represent me and become a mediator
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  Speaker 1: through whom all men may approach me, may through him,
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  Speaker 1: as elder brother, all become adopted children. He shall teach
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: a novel doctrine, this my son shall new to mankind
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: and to all the gods besides me, doctrine of renunciation,
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: sacrifice of self for others, love toward me, and love
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: the neighbor me first, but the neighbor after reciprocrosity, the
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: highest and most sacred social duty. He shall call me Father, Father, never, never, God,
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: Almighty Great Jehovah. As they do who seek to flatter
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: me with vain words, hypocrites who do not love me.
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: He shall tell the world who sent him in my name.
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: He shall work wonders into wine, shall transform water, tell
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: a woman, though a stranger, everything she ever thought of,
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: Cast out devils from possessed men. Heal the sick, the lame,
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: the palsied, cause the blind to see, and feed the
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: multitude that follows breadless. He shall speak and still the tempest,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: calm the sea, and walk upon. Cleansed from leprosy the leper,
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: and to life, restore a dead man, though imtuned and decomposing.
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: Having done all this, his mission still unfinished, he shall
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: fulfill by his death sublime and tragic, by both men
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: and angels witnessed at which heaven and Earth shall shudder.
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: First and only divine martyr, like a common male factor,
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: he the son of God, shall perish on a cross,
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: nailed and uplifted. He shall die with thieves whose crimes
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: are thick upon them. For his death mates acme of humiliation,
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: emphasis of degradation, but as a divine exemplar illustrating the
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: new doctrine of self sacrifice for others. In the agony
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: of dying, all the mother in him, feeling torture, heeness,
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: human anguish. Hearing still the gibbs and jeerings of his
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: human prosecutors, the divinity within him shall cry out, Father,
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: forgive them, for they know not what their doing. Cerimented,
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: buried guarded lest his tomb be violated, three days after
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: he shall rise and show himself to many living seeking
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: his disciples. They shall by his wounds identify him beyond
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: doubt or disputation. After which, with them around him, having
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: given them instruction and commandment, he shall vanish in a
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: cloud from their dull vision and ascend to me in heaven. Thence,
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: according to his promise, to return with power and glory,
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: a new kingdom to establish among men to last forever.
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: Such my plan for man's redemption, if my people will
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: accept it well and good. If not. The heathen for
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: whom I have cared so little, shall be told of
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 1: all my goodness, of my greatness, justice, mercy, loving kindness,
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: and forbearance, and invite to become my lawfully adopted subjects,
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: coming under My protection by forsaking their allegiance to all
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: other gods and serving me with faithful, true devotion. Such
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: the legend centuries since a Galilean coming out of Nazareth
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: and humble village in Jerusalem was murdered victim of religious frenzy, tried, condemned,
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: and executed for denouncing Orthodoxy as behind the times and
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: teaching doctrines in advance a Moses, and for calling God
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: his father, and for working on the Sabbath, and for
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: pricking pious bubbles of pretension on the part of self
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: inflated high Church people whited sepultures. He called them full
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: of dead man's bones, hypocrites, a dangerous experiment for any
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: man at any time where religion is dyspoic, And for
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: drawing many people after him and causing tumult for pretending
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: to be king of Jewry. Also charged, not proven. After
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: this man's crucifixion, after he had been three days dead,
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: it was claimed by his disciples that they found his
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: tomb deserted and that he arisen living had appeared to
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: them and taught them his truemission. That he then was
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: caught up in a cloud and vanished, that he might
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: be soon expected to return with power and glory, as
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: he promised them to do so, that he was the
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: true Messiah long expected by the Hebrews, as foretold by
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: many prophets, that his people did not know him and
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: refused to recognize him, that he had instructed them to
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: preach his gospel to all nations as Jerusalem, beginning, offering
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: them the benefit of his blood and shed for man's salvation.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: It has also been asserted and a part of Christian dogma,
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: that this humble Galilean was divine, was God incarnate, son
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: of get One with the Father sitting on the throne
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: of Heaven, that, although still daily looked for to appear
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: on earth in person, he before he left, commissioned one
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: called Peter to look after his affairs on earth while absent,
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: that through him and his successors a long line of
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: holy fathers Roman Pontus, he established and has ruled on
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: earth his kingdom. Further, it is claimed that all hoove
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: heard this story and who hearing, have believed and been
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: baptized too. After death, shall live again and dwell in
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: realms of bliss forever, but that all who've heard and doubted,
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: or have failed to be baptized, should suffer everlasting torment.
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: After centuries of preaching teaching dogmas thus fantastic still, but few,
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: compared with all who've heard the story, have believed it still.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: But few of all the many who profess to comprehend
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: the mystery of incarnation think of Jesus as of God,
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: or yet of God as ever flesh born. Others sneer
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: at the pretense of popes and priests, both big and little,
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: that they hold divine commission to dictate beliefs religious, or
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: to bind or lose the souls of others here or elsewhere,
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: or that they are gifted with more knowledge of God's
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: person or his purpose than are other men of learning,
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: or that they, by prayers can move Him to reverse
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: or change intentions. Multitudes great populations worship other gods and
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: follow other great religious leaders, prophets sons of God redeemers
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: in their own face, strong unchanging scorning the presence of
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: Christians that their faith alone is holy. But if true
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: or false, the story all the people's so called Christian
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: have outgrown their pagan neighbors, have progressed beyond all others
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: in prosperity and morals, in that knowledge which is power, too,
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: have been growing ever better in both principles and practice, And,
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: though still both superstitious and intolerant as churchmen, Christian men
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: and women singly rise above the hard fixed dogmas of
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: an age of mental darkness, and display a nobler spirit, broader, sweeter,
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: and more generous, more forgiving, loving, trusting, dignifying and exalting
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: than distinguish other peoples. Better too, than the rude spirit
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: of denial when uncultured, manifested by such men as see
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: in faith. No shade of virtue in religion, no response
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: to nature's most profound suggestions, men who delve the dirt
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: of knowledge, blind to starry facts above them, worshiping themselves insanely.
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: Science sees the truth more clearly what it thinks of
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: inspiration or of miracles, No matter though it leaves the
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: supernatural out of every estimation, Human history confronts it with
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 1: stern facts, and it discovers values in all face and
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: virtue in all practical religions, sees and comprehends the fact
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: that this most complex Christian ethic of renunciation, sense of
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: otherness as well as selflessness, finding ample illustration in the
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: life and death of Jesus, as set forth in Christian Gospels,
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: taking rut has grown and blossomed in broad fields of
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: human culture, giving color and perfume. Two all that's called civilization.
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  Speaker 1: In of chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen of Facts and Fancies
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: by Orpheus Everetts. This LibriVox recording is in the public
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  Speaker 1: domain recording by Linda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, BC, Chapter fourteen.
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: Darkness now obscures the distance still delayed. The train is
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: standing motionless. What is the matter comes from many lips, impatient, wished,
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: I dawn afoot, says one fool feared. We can't make
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: no connections, says the farmer on his way to see
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: his daughter in Nebraska. After midnight, says the preacher. Arms
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: and jaws both wide extended, waking. Thus some drowsing sisters
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: guess my folks is tired awaiting volunteered the fleshy woman
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: of umbrella reputation. This is nothing to what happens sometimes
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: to me, says the master. I don't mind it, says
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 1: the widow smiling, languidly yet sweetly. Ancient maiden barricaded still
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: sits upright, firm and stately, blooming beauty just behind her
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: now is talking with a student on his way to
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: Camper College. She had graduated last year. She tells him, no,
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: not at Vassar. Are you fond of reading? He asks, yes, Oh, yes,
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: She sweetly answers of good books. I'm never weary. So
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: they talk of author's poets. He likes Scott and she
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: loves Byron. He thinks Milton grand, but gloomy, says that
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 1: Shakespeare's overrated, ungrammatical and vulgar. Hasn't read him much. He couldn't.
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: She thinks Tennyson has written some sweet things. His Maud,
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: for instance. He has never read Maud will though she
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: does wish she could remember who the author is of
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: something she has read some time somewhere, an exquisite little poem. Oh,
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: it's Ella Wheeler Wilcox. He had never heard of Ella
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: now of novels. Their discourse is he likes dumas if
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: the elder or the younger He don't know. Now thinks
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: his language beautiful, but doesn't care much for the story.
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: She prefers Miss Dinah Mulloch, Charlie Bonte, and Miss Braddon
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 1: has read some of Dickens's try and so on and on,
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: they chatter, having much to learn, both of them that
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: experience only teaches all. The other persons mentioned in these
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: facts and fancies either kept their seats and sat in silence,
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: or gave ear to altercation between two hot headed parties
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: equally equipped for battle. One an apa fanatic, as unreasonable
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: and foolish, as deluded and as earnest in his quest
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: for wrongs to right or injuries to be avenged done
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: by the Pope of Rome, or threatened as Servante's crazy
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: Night was when assaulting ancient windmills, and the other, no
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: less doughty in defense of Pope and Church, was quite
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: as ignorant and zealous, quite as angry and contentious. Neither
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: knew enough about the matter, then in controversy to discuss
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: the subject calmly. Each depended on ascertations, accusations, and denials,
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 1: repetitions of old falsehoods emphasize with liar liar scripture tells
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: us who your pope is. He's the Antichrist, no other.
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: The dark mystery of evil Scarlet Woman War of Babylon,
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: beast with seven heads and ten horns seen by John
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: the Revelator. That's who he is. And you know it,
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: said the party of the first part. Oh, you're talking
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: through your hat. Now you've have heard some preacher say that.
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: Give us something common sense folks like ourselves can understand. Please,
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: what's the use of cramming such stuff down our throats?
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: We can't digest it, said the second party, Hotly, your
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: church is corrupt. It's rotten through and through and always
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: has been. Its whole history is infernal, cruel, bloody, and
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: despotic over men and over empires. It presumes to be
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: superior to the Bible, more authentic, exercising the discretion of
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: a sovereignty supreme in the discharge of every function. Oh,
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: the bold faced, bald pretension. Popes and priests are all
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: las viscous, drunken of arcarius rascals, and your nunneries are
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: brothels where their sins are hid by murder. These are facts.
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: If you want facts, sir, you don't dare to read
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: the Bible, nor to say your souls your own, sir.
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 1: If some bloated, red nosed father, as you call your
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: priest has told you that you must not. You don't
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: dare to send your children to the best schools that
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: the world has ever seen, sir, just because you know
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: they'll find out what pumpmugs and impostors your priests are
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: and cease to mind them. You can't vote for whom
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: you please, nor read nor hear without permission. There you
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 1: go again, that's nonsense. There's no truth in what you said, sir.
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: I'm as free to think as you are. You have
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 1: no religion, that's all. I believe the pope and learned
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: men who devote their lives to study of deep subjects
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: should no more than you or I do ubout such things.
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  Speaker 1: What the Church says about Bibles, schools, and other things religious,
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  Speaker 1: I accept with thanks. I've tried to think of God
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  Speaker 1: and Heaven and Hell and Purgatory for my sul sir,
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  Speaker 1: but each effort proved a failure. I had rather take
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  Speaker 1: my chances in a strong and well built ship, sir,
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  Speaker 1: well supplied and well commanded, then to dig out a
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  Speaker 1: canoe and try to paddle it myself. Sir. I believe
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  Speaker 1: the Church is holy, It inculates wholesome morals. It don't
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  Speaker 1: meddle with my business. If I'm honest, I can vote
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  Speaker 1: for whom I choose to unrestrain, sir, And it strikes
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  Speaker 1: me at the same time that your popes, your Presbyterian, Methodists, Episcopal,
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  Speaker 1: and other lesser churches dictate what should be believed and
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  Speaker 1: what not, tolerating no dissension with as much pride and
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  Speaker 1: presumption as the Church of Rome does ever swing and Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: Briggs and Smith are fresh examples of their power and
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  Speaker 1: their disposition. Likewise, in the field of politics too, they
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  Speaker 1: are always active, making new laws or enforcing old ones,
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  Speaker 1: both prescriptive and restrictive of your habits and your freedom.
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  Speaker 1: You don't call them popes, Oh no, and think that
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  Speaker 1: you are independent. But you're tied up tighter now than
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  Speaker 1: any veil bound sacred sister by your narrow minded notions,
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  Speaker 1: said the Catholic contestant. That's not so, and you know better.
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  Speaker 1: You're all trained to lie. You Jesuits emissaries of a
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  Speaker 1: despot who pretends that O mankind are or should be
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  Speaker 1: his loyal subjects. There is no dependence on you. You
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  Speaker 1: can't serve him and be trusted with our liberties a moment,
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  Speaker 1: said the Protestant defender trusted? Is it that you say, sir,
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  Speaker 1: who was truer to this country when it called for
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  Speaker 1: help from danger in the War of sixty one? Sir?
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  Speaker 1: Ask your armies muster roll, Sir, and the gravestones of
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  Speaker 1: the nation's holy places? Who were trusted? If we Catholics
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  Speaker 1: were traitors? See this scar, sir, show me yours now?
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  Speaker 1: And of history, who stood firmest by the side of Washington, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: who bore hardships of campaigning and the brunt of battle
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  Speaker 1: longest without flinching or complaining when your Protestants deserted or
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  Speaker 1: were mutness and sullen. What does history answer? Hear me?
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  Speaker 1: Irishmen and Catholic Sir, said the patriotic papist, not because
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  Speaker 1: they loved this country, but because they hated England. They
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  Speaker 1: were fighting for the pope then, not for human rights
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  Speaker 1: nor freedom, said the a p a man loudly staff
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  Speaker 1: and nonsense worse than falsehood, said the other, quite disgusted,
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  Speaker 1: and much more of the same tenor about equally applauded.
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  Speaker 1: All aboard at length was shouted, and the train once
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  Speaker 1: more in motion onward rolled is beaming headlight tunneling afar,
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  Speaker 1: the darkness, onward, onward. Soon the wreck that long delayed
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  Speaker 1: us left behind, was and the city, hungry, waiting, wide mouthed,
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  Speaker 1: greedily devoured us five hours late. But lo Peoria end
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  Speaker 1: of chapter fourteen in of Facts and Fancies by Orpheus
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  Speaker 1: Everett's