the faculty of sensing intelligible principles.

This specific faculty of the actual-ly intelligent senses, and the ration-al (quotient-like) function of the real-ly intelligible principles unit-e to form an ideal-ly responsible person.

This responsibility is an emergent, and as different from either of its elements as water is from the oxygen and the hydrogen which compose it. Moreover, it is a form of Life,-Social.

Animal Life and Social Life demonstrate in a noteworthy way the philosophical value of Lewes' remark, that "A thing is what it does." The former is a strife where, Might is Right," the latter is a striving where "Right is Might;" the one is a prey-er, the other is a prayer. In short, the one is subjugation, and the other is civilization, and the office of philosophy is to so‘banish indifference, and explain the necessity of things,' as to make these truths self-evident. Social Life then, is a striving, a conation, a collective effort, a working arrangement of independent agents in com-petition (together plus praying) to serve one another, and it is manifestly the business of philosophy, and of philosophers to so explain the difference between prey-ing (Subjugation), and pray-ing (Civilization), prey-ing on one another, and pray-ing to one another, that their real difference is that which obtains between social food, and social poison.

The Law where Right is the' 'Fixed Order' is the given, and just so much of this given as has been gotten, constitutes the total pure food supply of the social organism.

To those who are fairly well informed, it is manifest that the preparation of this food, the principles of cookery applied to knowledge produce, is the one thing to which the whole of today's mechanical development is due. "Organic registration of assimilated material" is,

in one word, Comprehension (together + grasp); the intelligent sense grasps the intelligible principle, and the intelligible principle grasps the intelligent sense, and the given (principle) has become the gotten given (knowlledge). The assimilation of the material, and the organic registration are, respectively, growth in responsibility and the command of the Law, the inability to not know a truth, when once comprehended (together - grasped). This negative form of expression of the Law is at variance with those spiritualistic counterfeits, whose personal "thou shalt nots' are attended by plans of salvation, atonements, by substitution, etc., whereas, the ''Fixed Order'' comes into the field of personal choice, enforcing recognition as the sole acknowledgement of the increased power thus conferred, but attached to each increment of this power is the Sanction, the penalty for its abuse. Now this sanction, these penalties, are the exact equivalent of the impersonal power (the effective expression of the command) given for use but taken for abuse; given for Civilization, but taken for Subjugation.

Now it so happens that the experience of the World's greatest emblem of independence (Civilization) the American Flag of today, 1907, has encompassed the gamut, the entire scale of the Law,-the Command, the Duty, and the Sanction.

Its birth in revolution, through the friendly aid of France, but noticably marked by the inherited blotch of slavery; its growth, promoted by a superior system (school) for the preparation of social food-mathematical principles; its experience of the operation of the Sanction (the Civil War), a partial payment for slavery, involving the removal of the inherited birth-mark, or blotch, its prime of the highest earthly dignity as certified to by by the entire absence of subjugates under the then un dimmed glory of its folds; its decay through serving as

the badge of the subjugating force which successfully carried into effect a plan to make the many poor parties to contracts made under the conditions of a double standard, pay the few rich co-parties there to, in accordance with the conditions involved in a single standard—a legal victory, but a moral robbery; its temporary rally in the destruction of Spanish subjugation in Cuba and in Porto Rico and in the Philipines, but the appetition for subjugation (yielded to, and whetted by the success against the many poor debtors) determined the denial of the Phillipinos to their Might of Right (or Independence) by the exercise of the Right of Might (Subjugation) under the very "Colors" which symbolized what it was raised against; (the principle of Indepednence.) The ensuing slaughter could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be dignified by the name-War. The personal accounts of actual participants, testimony taken by Congressional Committees and other reliable reports, particularly the absence of normal proportion in the killed, wounded and prisoners, indicate an orgy of blood-men, women and children, going down together in the general carnival, and to this abysmal depth of inhumanity was carried what had been humanity's glory, now the presiding genius over this revel of death, the concomitant of Subjugation.

To complete the desecration of the Flag which was consecrated by the mortal agony of massacred men, women, and children at the hour of its birth, it was raised over A SYSTEM OF RECONCENTRATION CAMPS for the sole purpose of prolonging the agonized cries of the mother, and the wails of terror wrung from the children, which the comparatively merciful massacre cut short by that sleep of grace-death.

"Of all the thoughts of God that are

Borne inward unto souls afar,

Along the Psalmist's music deep,

Now tell me if that any is
For gift or grace surpassing this-

'He giveth his beloved sleep.

Mrs. Browning.

In the economy of the Abbatoir the profitable byproducts include the saving of every thing but the final cry; in the economy of Subjugation that ghastly cry has served the purpose of two powerful nations-in the Transvaal, and in the Phillipines.

Spain (Weyler), and England (Chamberlain) Christianity's two greatest exemplars, supplied the measure for its fitness andConstantine himself who so successfully floated Christianity that to this day he stands unrivalled as a promoter, could not have more successfully carried out. the planned plan than the United States (Roosevelt) did.

McKinley's two messages to Congress denounced Spain's use of the plan in the following terms:

It utterly failed as a war measure. It was not civilized warfare, it was extermination and the only peace it could beget was that of the wilderness and the grave.'

But despite this righteous arraignment of a measure, surpassing all brutality by far, his successor adopted it in the Phillipines, creating, according to Congressional accounts, a collossal system whose victims numbered some hundreds of thousands, and the home-loving Phillipino succumbed-the independent agent, under the influence of the final cry," became the subjugate.

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The raising of the STARS and STRIPES," GLORY of HUMANITY over this SYSTEM of RECONCENTRATION CAMPS was for Time's stage the most tragic event; the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, with his seven millions of balloting support, the greatest tragedian; and the Audient World witness to an invocation of the Sanction calling for a higher test than has ever been applied to the equalizing Law.

The Sanction neither forgives nor forgets; its verity as distinguished from the counterfeit scheme of redemption, or plan of salvation gotten up for, and floated by the subjugator Constantine, comes out distinctly in the lime-light of purposiveness. The intent of the content of the Sanction, its purpose, is the infliction of punishment in that necessitious (choiceless) impersonal way, wherein, "barter, substitution, surplus endowments or offerings in one direction, to atone for lack in another,'' has no place.

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What the careful student has noted from the hurried survey of the formula, considered as Nature's Legal Code, and the two digests therefrom, is that we may have two distinct forms of Philosophy, the impersonal which is diagrammatical, mathematical, and mechanical, and therefore, characterized throughout by necessity; and the personal which is dialectical, aesthetical, and ethical, and therefore, marked throughout by choice. The impersonal is the same for everyone; the personal is the different in every one. The two are opposites, and, therefore, complemental; not contraries, excluding one another. “There is always a certain relation between opposites; they unfold themselves, though in different directions, from the same root, as the positive and negative forces of electricity, and in their very opposition uphold and sustain one another: while contraries encounter one another from quarters quite diverse, and one only subsists in the exact degree that it puts out of working the other.'' Trench.

From these considerations it would appear that Philosophy had been hopping around on only one of its two legs, and, since a hop is a hiatus, every effort by philosophy to go anywhere means the establishment of a miss

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