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At breakfast next h he found Clarke's nae, he was relieved to find only one allusion to the unknown psychic on whose

"She has another day of grace," he said to hi of Lambert

All the way down to his laboratory he pretended to read the news, but could not succeed in interesting himself in the wars and fa were his own passions and retreats, so filmy was the abstract, so concrete and vital the particular A ins about to be sold to slavery in Turkestan; but such intelligence counted little to awith doubt of the woht of any philosopher tochildren into a life of bafflement and pain and ultimate annihilation

This eneral, and philosophers, even the monists, must continue to be inconsistent The individual must of necessity consider himself first and humanity afterwards; for if all lect of self, the race would die at the root and the individual perish of his too-widely diffused pity To be the altruist, one ive, one must first have

The questions which filled this iator's ain: Dare I, insisting on anisms and subject to the sae? If the theories I hold are true--if the soul of a child is noprinciple of the ant or the ape (and this I cannot deny)--then of what avail is huanis that they will only flutter a little while in the sun like butterflies and die as unavailingly as moths?

Up to this time he had accepted with a certain calm pitilessness the most inexorable tenets of the evolutionists, and had defended the, with love for Viola stirring in his heart, he found hied a growing syic fact of death

All that he had read concerning clairvoyance, telepathy, hypnotisnificance and a weightier importance He was annoyed to find hiestion" was anything like as coercive as many eminent men believed it to be, and in this awakened interest he 'phoned Tol hi in his philosophy I want to know it," he said, as he turned to his desk