ld calls a man by a nickname, it is a patent
to nobility--small men are never so honored.

"Good-by, Bob," called the white-aproned cook as he stood in the
kitchen-door and waved his big spoon.

"Good-by, Brother, and mind you get those peacock-tongues by the time I
get back," answered Bob.

As to Ingersoll's mental evolution we can not do better than to let him
tell the story himself:

Like the most of us, I was raised among people who knew--who were
certain. They did not reason or investigate. They had no doubts.
They knew they had the truth. In their creed there was no guess--no
perhaps. They had a revelation from God. They knew the beginning of
things. They knew that God commenced to create one Monday morning
and worked until Saturday night, four thousand and four years
before Christ. They knew that in the eternity--back of that
morning, He had done nothing. They knew that it took Him six days
to make the earth--all plants, all animals, all life, and all the
globes that wheel in space. They knew exactly what He did each day
and when He rested. They knew the origin, the cause, of evil, of
all crime, of all disease and death.

They not only knew the beginning, but they knew the end. They knew
that life had one path and one road. They knew that the path,
grass-grown and narrow, filled with thorns and nettles, infested
with vipers, wet with tears, stained by bleeding feet, led to
heaven, and that the road, broad and smooth, bordered with fruits
and flowers, filled with laughter and song, and all the happiness
of human love, led straight to hell. They knew that God was doing
His best to make you take the path and that the Devil used every
art to keep you in the road.

They knew that there was a perpetual battle waged between the great
Powers of good and evil for the possession of human souls. They
knew that many centuries ago God had left His throne and had been
born a babe into this poor world--that He had suffered death for
the sake of man--for the sake of saving a few. They also knew that
the human heart was utterly depraved, so that man by nature was in
love with wrong and hated God with all his might.

At the same time they knew that God created man in His own image
and was perfectly satisfied with His work. They also knew that He
had been thwarted by the