The Philistine A Periodical of Protest. “_Those Philistines who engender animosity, stir up trouble and then smile._”—JOHN CALVIN. [Illustration] Vol. I No. 1. Printed Every Little While for The Society of The Philistines and Published by Them Monthly. Subscription, One Dollar Yearly Single Copies, 10 Cents. June, 1895. THE PHILISTINE. Contents for June. 1. Quatrains, E. R. White. 2. Philistines Ancient and Modern, William McIntosh. 3. The Sanity of Genius, Rowland B. Mahany. 4. English Monuments, Elbert Hubbard. 5. Ballade des Écrivains du Temps Jadis, G. F. Warren. 6. Philistinism in General, Mark S. Hubbell. 7. Side Talks, The East Aurora School of Philosophy. COPYRIGHT 1895 THE PHILISTINE. NO. 1. June, 1895. VOL. 1. QUATRAINS. If one could hear aright the murmurings Of some shore-stranded sea-shell as it sings, It might be then that he would come to know An inkling of the Planner’s purposings. The weary shuttle can no more divine Of how its thread looks, in the whole design, Than we poor shuttles, in the hand of Fate Can fathom of the Plan a single line. E. R. WHITE. PHILISTINES ANCIENT AND MODERN. “THE ANCIENT PHILISTINES.—The enemies of the children of light.”—_International Cyclopedia._ “PHILISTINE.—A term of contempt applied by prigs to the rest of their species.”—LESLIE STEPHEN. A tiny spot on the map is the Philistia of Old Testament days—a way station on the path of commerce between alphabet-building Phœnicia to the north, and Canaan and predatory Arabia on the south. But long before those hardy neighbors plagued Israel and made a hostage of the Ark of the Covenant there were Philistines in the world, influencing its destinies. Tradition has been unkind to Philistinism as to many other good things. The Serpent in the Garden is the earliest embodiment of the genius of protest, unless we follow John Milton farther back to the rebellion in the Court of Heaven, organized by the Sons of the Morning. Omnipotence that founded order set in motion change also. The unrest that is the electro-motor of progress is in nature as in man, and evolution is its perpetual law.