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I refuse to yield to these. Holding the ministry in rev- Commonsense will career and my familiar associates to say whether I do not other agencies united. I would leave them in the cold-stor- brace the sum of all fanaticism and intolerance, proposing age, to ivhich the execration of some and the neglect of all, them to Kentucky to poison the meat and drink and charac- 108 temporal power, I do not intend, if I can help it, to be com- place, and have not always placed, the integrity of man, the purity of woman and the sanctity of religion above all earth- recreate her in the dread image of Maine and Kansas. that, instead of the rich, red blood of Virginia, icewater shall ly things; but / hope never to grow too old to make merry ter of the people. I shall leave my home, my professional ridden systems of the middle ages. / do not care to live in "blue laws'' of New England dead letters for the most part did more harm to the people, whilst they lasted, than all pelled to accept a rule of modern clericalism, which, if it flow through the veins of the people; "isms" which, in one can be legislated into angels even red-nosed angels. The a world that is too good to be genial, too ascetic to be hon- consigned them long ago, not embalm them and import zvord, would blot Kentucky out of the galaxy of stars, and erence as spiritual advisers, rejecting them as emissaries of est, too prescriptive to be happy. I do not believe that men could have its bent and sway, would revive for us the priest-

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