Some day--and I greatly fear that day is not very far distant--some professional anarchist (for there are professional anarchists as well as professional thieves) will consider the time ripe for rebellion, and, raising the fraudulent cry of "Labor against Capital!" instead of his legitimate cry of "Rapine! Murder! Booty!" will lead this army of degenerates, composed of anarchists, nihilists, sexual perverts, and congenital criminals, against society. And who will bear the brunt of this savage irruption? The ultra-rich? By no means! The great "middle class"--the true conservators of society and civilization--will fight this battle. It will be a fight between civilization and degeneration, and civilization will carry the day. There would have been no French revolution had the middle class been as wise then as it is to-day. It was taken by surprise at that savage, bloody time, but as soon as it recovered, how quickly it brought order out of chaos! Education is the bulwark of civilization, and the great middle class, freed of dogmatism, bigotry, and superstition, is welcoming education with outstretched hands. It is gaining recruits, and is strengthening its defenses, so that when the time comes its enemies may find it fully prepared. From the signs of the times and the evidence before me, I have no hesitation in declaring that I believe that the beginning of the end is at hand! This social cataclysm may not occur for many years, yet the agencies through which it will finally be evolved are even now at work, and are bringing the culmination of their labors ever nearer and nearer as time passes! BIBLIOGRAPHY. ARNOBIUS: _Adversus Gentes_. BALBOA: _History of Peru_. BANCROFT: _Native Races of the Pacific States of North America_. BATES: _The Naturalist on the River Amazon_. BATCHELOR: _The Ainu of Japan_. BECAN: _Origines Antwerpianae_. BIART: _The Aztecs_. BIRD: _Unbeaten Tracks in Japan_. BOSMAN: _Africa_. BREMEN: _De Situ Daniae_. BROWLOW: _Travels_. BUCHARDI: _Decretorum Libri_. CARY: _Translations of Herodotus_. CHAILLE-LONG: _Naked Truths of Naked People_. DARWIN: _Works_. DALL: _Alaska and its Resources_. DE REMUSAT: _Lettrés Edifiantes_. DE REMUSAT: _Nouv. Mel. Asiatiques_. DRAPER: _The Conflict between Religion and Science_. DE QUATREFAGES: _The Human Species_. DE QUATREFAGES: _Hommes Fossiles_. DORSEY: _Siouan Cults; An. Rep. Bur. Eth., 1889-90_. DU CHAILLU: _Equatorial Africa_. EDEN: _The Fifth Continent_. ELLIS: _Polynesian Researches_. FORBES: _Oriental Memoirs_. FLETCHER: _Peabody Museum Report_. Vol. iii. FRIEDREICH: _Psychologie_. GARCILASSO: _The Royal Commentaries of the Incas_. GOLNITZ: _Itinerarium Belgico-Gallicum_. GREGORY: _The Great Rift Valley_. HAECKEL: _The History of Creation_. HAMMOND: _Impotence in the Male_. HAECKEL: _The Evolution of Man_. HERODOTUS: _Euterpe, Clio, Etc._ HORACE: _Priap. Carm., Lxxxiv_. JOHNSTON: _The Kilima-Njaro Expedition_.