Trampling on the Rights of Inferiors--Rise of the Irish and Germans to Power--The Burlingame Treaty--Character of Chinese Laborers--Their Enemies in the Pacific States--Violation of Treaties--The Geary Law--The Chinese Hated for their Virtues--More Piety than Principle among the People's Representatives--Shall we go back to Barbarism? A WORD ABOUT EDUCATION. What the Educated Man Knows--Necessity of finding out the Facts of Nature--"Scholars" not always Educated Men; from necessaries to luxuries; who may be called educated; mental misers; the first duty of man; university education not necessary to usefulness, no advantage in learning useless facts. WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS. Would have the Kings and Emperors resign, the Nobility drop their Titles, the Professors agree to teach only What they Know, the Politicians changed to Statesmen, the Editors print only the Truth--Would like to see Drunkenness and Prohibition abolished, Corporal Punishment done away with, and the whole World free. FOOL FRIENDS. The Fool Friend believes every Story against you, never denies a Lie unless it is in your Favor, regards your Reputation as Common Prey, forgets his Principles to gratify your Enemies, and is so friendly that you cannot Kick him. INSPIRATION. Nature tells a different Story to all Eyes and Ears--Horace Greeley and the Big Trees--The Man who "always did like rolling land"--What the Snow looked like to the German--Shakespeare's different Story for each Reader--As with Nature so with the Bible. THE TRUTH OF HISTORY. People who live by Lying--A Case in point--H. Hodson Rugg's Account of the Conversion of Ingersoll and 5,000 of his Followers--The "Identity of Lost Israel with the British Nation"--Old Falsehoods about Infidels--The New York Observer and Thomas Paine--A Rascally English Editor--The Charge that Ingersoll's Son had been Converted--The Fecundity of Falsehood. HOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER. The Editor should not narrow his Horizon so that he can see only One Thing--To know the Defects of the Bible is but the Beginning of Wisdom--The Liberal Paper should not discuss Theological Questions Alone--A Column for Children--Candor and Kindness--Nothing should be Asserted that is not Known--Above All, teach the Absolute Freedom of the Mind. SECULARISM. The religion of Humanity; what it Embraces and what it Advocates--A Protest against Ecclesiastical Tyranny--Believes in Building a Home here--Means Food and Fireside--The Right to express your Thought--Its advice to every Human Being--A Religion without Mysteries, Miracles, or Persecutions. CRITICISM OF "ROBERT ELSMERE," "JOHN WARD, PREACHER," AND "AN AFRICAN FARM."