All sensible men, who are acquainted with the Bible, know that the facts of the Bible, known in the ancient wars of the nation of Israel, like the facts known in the wars of our own nation, would look terrible in the relations of murder. Things out of their relations are always ugly. A man and a woman living together as husband and wife outside of the marriage relation, would be in adultery, while others living in the same manner, but inside of the matrimonial relation, would be in a grand and praiseworthy union. Why is it that sensible men will wrest the Scriptures, taking things out of their proper relations, and do it to their own condemnation? “Happy is the man who condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.” IT ONLY NEEDS TO BE SEEN, AND ITS UGLINESS AT ONCE APPEARS. “Are such shams of rights, as caucus-and-ballot-boxism can give us, worth spending any more time and money and agitation upon? I ask, and I appeal to what has been most lyingly named free government in Greece, Rome, England, Venice, France, the United States, and wherever else it has been attempted to _make permanent the crisis stage_ of progress which marks the departure from monarchy. No, my friends, art-liberty _alone_ can be of any avail.... By art-liberty, my friends, I mean the _practical application_ of _all_ science and art _systemized_ as fast as unfolded. The only law which can govern a free state must be _discovered_; it must be drawn from the _whole of science and art_—not ‘enacted.’ Human law can no more be ‘enacted’ than can physical law.” ... “Man’s leaders must find out how to satisfy man’s highest aspirations, instead of catering for his prejudices; instead of confirming him, by flattery and cajolery, in his false, supernaturalistic notions; instead of studying the trickery of representing and plundering him. And they will rapidly find this out, as soon as a knowledge (already attained) of the _unity of science_ spreads among them, and along with it its correllate, that all mankind are one organism, no individual of which can be indifferent to _each_ and _all_ of the others. Enlightened, far-seeing, _all-benefiting selfishness_ will then take the place of short-sighted, suicidal, penny-wise pound-foolish cunning; and that barricade of hypocrisy, duty, that most fallible of all guides, conscience, and ‘virtue’ and ‘vice,’ those most unscientific and mischievous expressions that have ever crept into the vocabulary of human folly, will be obsolete.”