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Shall we be content any longer with a knowledge that is power, shall we boast ourselves any longer of a scientific art that leaves human nature, that makes over human nature to the tampering of an unwatched, unchecked empiricism, that leaves our own souls it may be, and the souls in which ours are garnered up, all wild and hidden, and gnarled within with nature's crudities and spontaneities, or choked and bitter with artificial, but unscientific, unartistic repression?

The Mole looked up from his Testament in surprise, but said nothing. Yet, by his expression I knew he was thinking of the Witch of Endor, and the Dukes of Edom, and the giants of the scriptures. But it seemed hopeless to modify his religious teachings by any self-developed theories of mine. All I desired to do was to keep this pagan Huron from tampering with my warriors' nerves.

So they exchanged Photos. Next to the Miniature painted on Ivory, the Modern Photo is the prize Bunk of the Universe. A successful Photographer, who has learned the Tricks and made a slight Study of Human Nature, can take a Grass Widow of 48, who is troubled with Wild Hairs and other Excess Ornaments, and by tampering with the Negative, he can make her out to look something like Ethel Barrymore.

When sexual thoughts and temptations arise in one's mind, even very young men are capable of putting them away, urged by the thought that tampering with one's generative organs is wrong. He should intuitively feel that it is something akin to theft, or a crime of some worse sort, for him to indulge in solitary vice and he should intuitively feel an inward reproach for all such meditations.

It was the hope of the French king, Louis XV, that if the Acadians could be kept thoroughly French at heart Acadie might yet be won back to shine on the front of New France. As the two nations were now at peace, any tampering with the allegiance of the Acadians could only be carried on in secret.

Nevertheless, however conservative we may be, and however much alive to the folly and wickedness of tampering with settled convictions-no matter what they are-without sufficient cause, there is yet such a constant though gradual change in our surroundings as necessitates corresponding modification in our ideas, desires, and actions.

The champion who dealt it the deadly blow was Scilla, and his weapons were facts obtained by examination of the fossils of Calabria, . But the advocates of tampering with scientific reasoning soon retired to a now position. It was strong, for it was apparently based upon Scripture though, as the whole world now knows, an utterly exploded interpretation of Scripture.

In a spasm of consternation Joanna realized that Ellen had been tampering with it. "What have you done? Where's my pictures? Where've you put the window curtains?" she cried at last. Ellen stiffened herself and tried not to look guilty. "I'm just trying to find room for my own things." Joanna stared about her. "Where's father's Buffalo certificate?" "I've put it in the cupboard."

"Money I have got for you, no doubt money I have got certainly." The double chin once more assumed its natural hue of celestial rosy red." "Upon my honor, Purcel," he replied, "I have not temper for this; it seems to me that you take particular delight in wantonly tampering with my feelings. I am really quite tired of it. Why harass and annoy me with your alarms?

She erred in ignorance and inexperience; but he against the bitter fruit of knowledge, in wilful tampering with truth reluctantly, misgivingly selfishly cozening his conscience, hardening himself in unbelief, applying salve to the old vital stab to his independence.