Discoveries: A Volume of Essays
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CONTENTS PAGE Why Are All Men Gamblers ............................ 1 No Man Understands lron .............................. 4 We Long for Immortal Imperfection-We Cant Have It .. 9 Three Water-Drops Converse ............................ 12 Did We Once Live on the hloon ......................... 14 Willlam Henry Channings Symphony .................... 18 The Existence of God-ParabIe of the Blind Kittens ..... 21 Have the Animals Souls ............................... 26 Jesus Attitude Toward Children ......................... 29 Study of the Character of God ........................... 34 The Fascinating Problem of Immortality ................. 38 Discontent the Motive Power of Progress ................ 43 The Automobile Will Make Us More Human .............. 46 Let Us Be Thankful .................................... 48 The Harm That Is Done by Our Frlends ................. 51 Shall We Tame and Chain the Invisible Microbe As We Now Chain Niagara ............................... 54 The Elephant That Will Not Move Has Better Excuses Than We Have for Folly Displayed .................. 57 Let Us Be Thankful .................................... 60 What W111 999 Years Mean to the Human Race ......... 64 The Azores-A Small Lost World in a Universe of Water .. 69 ho Napoleonic Chess Player on an Air Cushion .......... 74 A Girls Face in the Gaslight ............................ 79 v COXTESTS PAGE The Criminal Class ................................... 82 The 1Vonderful Magnet ........................ .. .... b. 87 Vho IB Independent Nobody .......................... 92 JVhen We Bcgin Using Land Under the Oceans .......... 94 Vhere Your Body Came From ........................... 96 How MarriageBegan ................................... 99 Mans IVillingncss to Work ............................. 10C The IIuman Brai lB eats the Coal Nines ................. 1 08 How the Other Planets Will Talk to Us ................. 110 Shall Ye Do Without Sleep Some Day .................. 1 13 The Three Best Things in the 11 orld .................... 1 17 The Value of Solitude . ................................. 1 21 There Should 13e Jionument to Time .................. 125 A Mothers ILork and Her Hopes ........................ 1 29 Your Work 1s Your Drains Gymnasium ................. 134 The Steeple. Moving Like the Hand of a Clock .......... 139 Cultivate Thought-Teach Tour Brain to Work Early .... 143 The Ilrind Does Not Rule Tour Destiny .................. 147 One of the hlany Corpses in the Johnstown Mine ......... 151 Limiting the Amount of a Days Work ................ 161 Catching n Red-IIot Bolt ............................... 166 The Trusts and the Lnlon-IIow Do They Differ ........ 170 France Has Learned Her Lesson ........................ 173 Union Me11 as Slave Owners ........................... 1 . 7 6 Agaln the TAimlted Day- S Work .......................... 181 To the Merchants ..................... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 What About the Chinese, Kind Sir .................... 19 0 150 against 150.00 0- VC Favor the 150.040 ............... 193 To-days 1Vorld. Struggle ................................. 196 White-Rabbit Iillionalresa nd Other T h i n g . ............ 200 So Happiness Save in Mental and Physical Activity ...... 203 The Owner of a Golden hlountaln ....................... 206 vi CONTENTS P The Htiman Weeds in Prison ........................... A 2 O 0 E 9 CrimeIs Dying Out ..................................... 217 The Value of Poverty to the World .................... 223 600 Teachers Now. 600. 000 Good Americans in the Future 226 Education-The First Duty of Government .............. 228 Poverty Is the Father of Vice. Crime and Failure ..........
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