_These are the coming taxes._ They are not untried theories, for Switzerland, the foremost nation in democracy, enjoys both the income tax and the progressively accumulating tax, which falls most heavily on the largest properties. It is to be hoped that political corruption and intrigue will not delay many years this assertion of the sovereignty of the commonwealth by taxation, which will give the republic a solid foundation, and that the power of the commonwealth thus enlarged will, through the Department of Productive Labor, and by educational progress, give us a true and a happy republic. These suggestions are not farther in advance of public opinion to-day, than was the nationalization of the land, when I urged it in 1847. They will find fit champions in a few years. To what extent the Department of Productive Labor should be fostered by every State, and to what extent it may be authorized by the federal constitution, we need not yet consider, for it is apparent that the due administration of the national domain and development of the arid region by irrigation, will furnish ample employment, if we adopt as a sacred principle, the demand of justice, that _not another acre of the national domain shall ever be sold_. Let us give settlers the easiest possible terms, but never surrender to monopoly the land of the commonwealth. "AEONIAN PUNISHMENT." BY REV. W. E. MANLEY, D. D. Some months ago an article with the above heading appeared in THE ARENA. It was written by Rev. C. H. Kidder, and was intended as a reply to one written by myself, on the eternal punishment. It appears that a friend of Mr. Kidder, a physician "of great ability," on reading my article was caused great disquietude. "He felt that if all the statements contained in the article were accurate, his religious instructors had been either knaves or fools--knaves, if they taught what they did not believe, and fools, if they believed what they taught," p. 101. I have only to say that the statements of my article are, in all important respects, accurate, explain the rest as he may; nor has Mr. Kidder shown that they are not accurate, except in one particular, not affecting the main question. This will be noticed in the proper place.