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“... weave new nursery tales for children, or themes to illus-
trate the crude beliefs the race accepted while yet its mental
status was infantile.
Aye, in countless thousands mortal things and things be-
got of mortal wants and fears, are chemically changed, or dis-
appear, and all goes with them that they were or stood for
before the transformation.
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When all the preaching charlatans of old, and all the sor-
did traders of the marts, and all the sturdy fighters of the
wars are long forgotten, what names will our posterity revere?
Those that were borne by great and noble minds who
gave to usand, not to us alone, but to all the world: to those
who are and those who are to benew knowledge and grand
principles to guide the race upon its upward trend along the
glorious spiral to the heights toward which they saw we all
must needs aspire if we would reach the fitting goal of man.
Immortal Marx and Engels; many more in divers lines
Of effort and of thought; the great discoverers...”
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