Excerpt from Intellectual Development: A Lecture The tom-tom and an opera of Verdi, as be tween those ancient agricultural 'imple ments and ours, as between that yellow daub and that landscape, as between that stone god and a statue of to-day, and I said to myself, this is a question of intellectual development, this is a question of brain. The man has advanced just in proportion as he has mingled his thoughts with his labor. And just in proportion that his brain has gotten into partnership with his hand. Man has advanced just as he has developed intellectually, and no other way. That skull was a low den in which crawled and groped the meaner and baser instincts of mankind, and this was a temple in which dwelt love, liberty and joy. Why is it that we have advanced in the arts It is be cause every incentive has been held out to the world, because we want better clubs or better cannon with which to kill our fellow Christians; we want better music, we want better houses; and any man who will invent them, and any man who will give them to us we will clothe him in gold and glory; we will crown him with honor. That gentle man in his dug out not only had his ideas of mechanics, but he was a politician. [laughter.

] His idea of politics was might makes right; and it will take thousands of years before the world will be willing to say that right makes might. That was his idea of politics and he had another idea - that all power came from the clouds, and that every armed thief that lived upon the hon est labor of mankind had had poured out upon his head the divine oil of authority. He didn't believe the power to govern came from the people; he did not believe that the great mass of people had any right what ever, or that the great mass of people could be allowed the liberty of thought - and we have thousands of such today. They say thought is dangerous - don't investigate; don't inquire; just believe shut your eves, and then you are safe. You must not hear this man or that man or some other man, or our dear doctrines will be overturned, and we have nobody 011 our side except a large majority we have no body on our side except the wealth and re spectability of the world; we have nobody on our side except the Infinite God, and we are afraid that one man, in one or two hours, will beat the whole party. [sensa tion] 'this man [in the dug out] also had his ideas of religion - that fellow was or thodox [laughter], and any man who dif fered with him'he called an infidel, an athe outcast, and warned everybody against him. He had his religion - he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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