him? And what, O what is his destiny, here or hereafter?

The woeful story told in the Bible of the origin and the "Fall of man,"
entailing untold miseries and uncomprehended anguish upon the whole
human race, has never been believed in by thinking minds. Especially
all that "rot" about God's repenting Himself of having made man in his
own image, and then setting Himself up in his only Son--a sacrifice to
Himself--for the sins of the folks He had just made and set agoing, and
told to subdue and master the planet He had made for them to live on;
but this yarn caught the fancy of infantile and puerile minds, and also
of the designing priests and theologians who have never, to this day,
tired of "baring the backs" of humanity to this "devil's rod,"
increasing, and multiplying the tortures of the minds of such as could
be made to accept such stuff by fears which could never be comprehended
or justified even in the minds of such children.

Our Heavenly Father has never set "metes and bounds" to the souls of
his earth children; there is no hidden mystery that cannot be fathomed
by them; there is no knowledge withheld from the earnest seeker after
truth. But first of all, the mind must be clarified and set free from
the blasphemous superstitions engendered by the crude beliefs taught by
theologians. The developed mind, and reason must arouse to rage and
resistance in view of the wreck and ruin of untold millions of lives,
the result of false teachings.

ANIMAL LIKENESS.

People have a way of saying of those they admire greatly: "She has the
face of an angel," or "She is a perfect beauty," "Beauty beyond
compare," et al, according to their ideas of what constitutes absolute
beauty; but the human countenances that have in them no faintest
suggestion of the kingdom below us are very rare. If one looks
attentively at the faces of the crowd as it surges along the most
attractive street, there may be seen on review surprising resemblances.
A man looking like an elephant, another like a toad, bull dogs and
wolves galore, beneficent faces of old people, calm and patient,
resembling work-worn horses, always folk of both sexes who suggest
sheep,--now and again a cantankerous billy goat. You may be sure that
the vast numbers of reptiles are not left out of the human
representation, and the birds, too. The "eagle eye," and the
carnivorous beak require no introduction to the menagerie, they belong
there. But the felines h