I get letters from the readers of my books; nearly always they are young people, so I feel like the father of a large family. I gather them now about my knee, and pronounce upon them a benediction in the ancient patriarchal style. Children and grandchildren of my hopes, for ages men suffered and fought, so that the world might be turned over to you. Now the day is coming, the glad, new day which blinds us with the shining of its wings; it is coming so swiftly that I am afraid of it. I thought we should have more time to get ready for the taking over of the world! But the old managers of it went insane, they took to tearing each other's eyes out, and now they lie dead about us. So, whether we will or not, we have to take charge of the world; we have to decide what to do with it, even while we are doing it. Let us not fail, young comrades; let us not write on the scroll of history that mankind had to go through yet new generations of wars and tumults and enslavements, because the youth of the international revolution could not lift themselves above those ancient personal vices which wrecked the fair hopes of their fathers--bigotry and intolerance, vindictiveness and vanity, envy, hatred and malice and all uncharitableness! * * * * * INDEX A Abbott, Lyman 175-191 Abbott, L.F. 189 Adams 214 Adventists 237 Amberley 52 Anglican Church 47-88 Appeal to Reason 144 Archer 133 Assyria 32 Atkinson 267 Austria 155 Aztecs 32 B Babists 254 Babylonia 26, 32, 50 Baxter 183 Beilhardt 254 Berkman 288 Besant 250 Bible-students 246 Bismarck 153 Black Magic 253 Blavatsky 23, 256 Blougram 109 Bonzano 121, 126 Booth 298 Bootstrap-lifting 11, 266 Brougher 209 Brown 268 Buchanan 68, 159 Buckle 41 Burns 75 C Caesar 161 Cannon 143 Carlyle 163 Carnegie 177 Catholic Church 27, 105-157, 295 Catholic Encyclopedia 67 Centrum 152 Charcot 258 Chatterton-Hill 220 Chinese 74 Christian Endeavor World 216 Christian Science 254-264 Churchman 101, 102 Clark 23 Clough 235 Columbus 115 Conway 127 Curates 71 D Darwin 56 Day 205 Debs 289 Dixon 204, 205 Dowie 242 Durham 80 E Eastman 140 Eddy 257, 261 Education 81 England 49, 73, 75 England, Church of 47-88 Episcopal Church 89-102 Eucharist 59 F Ferrer 51, 133 Fish 65 Flint 78, 79 Fogazzaro 298 Foraker 143 Frederick 163 G Galileo 51 Gallipoli 61 Garrison 167 Gladstone 57, 58, 81 Goldman 287 Goode 59, 61 Green 63 Gurney 254 H Hagen 219 Hale 213 Hammurabi 85 Hampton 181 Ha'nish 250 Hanna 122, 142, 153, 213 Harris 72 Harrison 304 Haywood 288 Hebrew 36, 173, 284, 285 Henry the Eighth 66, 67 Hill, Joe 219 Hill, Rev. J.W. 204 Holmes 276 Holy Rollers 242, 243 Hubbard 190 Huss 38, 41 Huxley 56, 58 Hyndman 256 Hyslop 223 I Inquisition 39, 51 Ireland 43 Isaiah 287 J Janet 258 Jastrow 32 Jehovah 35, 36 Jesuits 148 Jesus 74, 100, 101, 161, 172, 174, 175, 176, 197, 221, 258, 281, 282, 290, 291, 292 Jews 284, 286 Job 25, 26, 55 Joshua 37 Jowett 54 Jungle 190, 194, 197 Junker 152 K