in the arcana of Occultism, and unless
a man _lives the life_ he cannot be entrusted with them.

The late Professor Faraday had very serious doubts whether it was quite
wise and reasonable to give out to the public at large certain
discoveries of modern science. Chemistry had led to the invention of too
terrible means of destruction in our century to allow it to fall into
the hands of the profane. What man of sense--in the face of such
fiendish applications of dynamite and other explosive substances as are
made by those incarnations of the Destroying Power, who glory in calling
themselves Anarchists and Socialists--would not agree with us in
saying:--Far better for mankind that it should never have blasted a rock
by modern perfected means, than that it should have shattered the limbs
of one per cent even of those who have been thus destroyed by the
pitiless hand of Russian Nihilists, Irish Fenians, and Anarchists. That
such discoveries, and chiefly their murderous application, ought to
have been withheld from public knowledge may be shown on the authority
of statistics and commissions appointed to investigate and record the
result of the evil done. The following information gathered from public
papers will give an insight into what may be in store for wretched
mankind.

England alone--the center of civilization--has 21,268 firms fabricating
and selling explosive substances.[E] But the centers of the dynamite
trade, of infernal machines, and other such results of modern
civilization, are chiefly at Philadelphia and New York. It is in the
former city of "Brotherly Love" that the now most famous manufacturer of
explosives flourishes. It is one of the well-known respectable
citizens--the inventor and manufacturer of the most murderous "dynamite
toys"--who, called before the Senate of the United States anxious to
adopt means for the repression of a _too free trade_ in such implements,
found an argument that ought to become immortalized for its cynical
sophistry--"My _machines_," that expert is reported to have said--"are
quite _harmless to look at_; as they may be manufactured in the shape of
oranges, hats, boats, and anything one likes.... Criminal is he who
murders people by means of such machines, not he who manufactures them.
The firm refuses to admit that were there no supply there would be no
incentive for demand on the market; but insists that every demand should
be satisfied by a supply ready at hand."

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