eyes, blackened eyelids, Marcelled hair, and
a form draped in all the splendor of the finest silks do not make a
woman possess the sweetness and charm that all this "dope" is intended
to make us believe.

As much as man wants to have the end of this life attain certain
benefits and destinations, this desire does not make them real.

The implicit confidence in a faithless wife does not make her loyal and
virtuous. A wife's confidence in a profligate husband does not make him
stanch and true.

Life calls for a cold analysis. It must be stripped of all its
artificial colorings and superfluities. It must be measured and weighed
for what it actually is, not for what we would like it to be. It must be
determined in the unwavering scales of science.

The proper study of mankind is not the man in the white starched collar,
with trimmed hair, shaven face and polished shoes, but the man recently
from the forest, with coarse, grizzly hair upon his back, brutal and
violent passion dominating his body, and savageness and hatred in his
startled and terrifying eyes.

The sooner we come to the realization of this vital fact, the sooner we
become acquainted with the basic origin of life, the sooner we shall
understand life, with its achievements, with its aspirations and hopes.

XI

It is an absolute fact and certainty, impossible of refutation, that
when animation ceases in the body and no effort is made to revive it,
life ceases and the processes of decay and decomposition set in.

Yet it is permanently established and has been successfully demonstrated
innumerable times, that certain methods of artificial stimulation have
revivified and resuscitated the delicate organs that cause the heartbeat
and give consciousness to the brain.

Recently my local newspaper contained the following item:

"DEAD" BUT SAW NO SPIRITS

_Oklahoma City, Okla._, February 7th--Neal Dillingham doesn't
believe in after-death communication with the living. Dillingham
was "dead" for twenty minutes recently, and he says he ought to
know.

Doctors said Dillingham's blood circulation was stopped by a clot
of blood. His heart stopped beating, and he did not breathe.

Insertion of a saline solution into his artery just above the
heart caused the clot to dissolve, and Dillingham came back to
life.

"I did not return to earth after I left it," said Dillingham. "I
had no knowledge of a