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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER IX. Covenant with Noah---Moses.

CHAPTER X. Gallows Unnecessary.

CHAPTER XI. Difficult to Enforce the Law.

THE GALLOWS, THE PRISON, AND

THE POOR-HOUSE.

CHAPTER I.

THE GROWTH OF HUMANITY.

Growth, a law of Nature-Man in his rude State-Progress of Art, Science, Education-Power, destitute of Benevolence, a Curse-The certainty of Progression in Humanity-The Hope of doomed Millions-Savageness of Society on the introduction of Christianity-Herod the cruel-Titus, the Darling of Mankind"-Nero-Savage condition of the most refined Women-The Beauty of the Gospel amidst this Deformity.

Even the earth, itself,

Each moment the old The mass of matter have been "without

Growth, improvement, progression, seem a law of nature, and the destiny of our race. is not destitute of active forces. is passing into newness of life. which, in the beginning, is said to form and void," has become the beautiful world which surrounds us. In this perpetual recreation, noble forests, luxuriant meadows, beautiful shrubbery and fragrant flowers of a thousand tints have sprung into being, rendering charming the earth-home which our good Father has given us for a brief time.

Man, too, is progressive in the elements of his beingin his INTELLECT and his HEART. At first he was rude. His ideas were simple and his wants few. The bear was better fed, and the panther better armed, than he

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Thus was he thrown upon his own resources. sity gave him energy. He sewed fig leaves and covered his nakedness. He had, too, his brain and his two hands with which to labor; but no work-shop-no mill, and no

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