sought to immortalize and perpetuate forever an absolute history of their own, and kindred races, by the uprearing of vast, imperishable monuments and temples, and abodes of men.  The pyramids, majestic rock-hewn places of worship, and subterranean crypts are but the fingerposts of destiny.  The voice of the weird spirit of “Memnon” who sits enthroned within the awful wastes of the desert sands, moans on and on, ever the same awe-inspiring warning.  “Listen, listen, vain, evanescent, puerile chrysalis, man!  Such as thou art, so were these most ancient of days over the history of whose toilsome, groping lives we keep forever jealous watch and ward.  As they are today, so shall ye become.  A little space, a few cycles of time, and all that lives and stalks abroad in the full plentitude of energy and ambition shall become resolved into the unfathomable the unreadable mysteries of the ages.”

Not after such fashion shall we of this age of widespread enlightenment write our history on the annals of the planet’s life, and evolution.  All that has gone before this time—­the closing in of the vast cycle—­has been, in a way, fragmentary, comet-like; the whole race of mankind has marched around the globe again and again.  The leaders—­the head—­were the favored few, priests and kings, warriors and nobles; the vast tail, the untaught, the unawakened, the ignorant, servile masses, the grovelling slaves, but a remove from the beasts of burden.

The spur of necessity, the development of ambition, and avarice, and the unfolding of the ego in man forced him along upon unknown paths, kept him separate from his kind, and built up the distinct races, in order that the individuality of each might become distinctly marked and recognized, that each, in his own special environment, might become the highest possible expression of what climate, soil and other influences, incident to the natural heredity could evolve in the lives and beings of given races of men.  It is as though Nature had disported herself in bringing to life an infinite variety and diversity among her perfected children.  But men, here and there, have always shown the golden cord of kinship to astonish and bewilder the unwary and unthinking.

The virtue and honor of a race are considered mere superstition and a perpetuation of injustice and wrong, or are accepted as a lesson in charity and brotherhood.  Thus is ever growing and becoming established the entire homogeneity of the race.  We have girded the earth, and established our fiery rule in the depths of the seas; the time for the fulfilling of a prophecy far reaching in its results is even now at hand.  “That which is spoken in the closets, shall be shouted from the housetops.”  Far and wide it is whispered in secret places, lest it be known of selfish greed or ambitious tyranny, and this it is that the human heart conceives, and human lips proclaim:  “Liberty! liberty!! liberty!!!” Room for noble thought, freedom for grand and acceptable