topple it over, along with all its
rotten life and unburied dead, its monstrous selfishness and sodden
materialism. Then we'll cleanse the cellar and build a new habitation
for mankind, in which there will be no parlour floor, in which all the
rooms will be bright and airy, and where the air that is breathed will be
clean, noble, and alive.

Such is my outlook. I look forward to a time when man shall progress
upon something worthier and higher than his stomach, when there will be a
finer incentive to impel men to action than the incentive of to-day,
which is the incentive of the stomach. I retain my belief in the
nobility and excellence of the human. I believe that spiritual sweetness
and unselfishness will conquer the gross gluttony of to-day. And last of
all, my faith is in the working-class. As some Frenchman has said, "The
stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the
polished boot descending."

NEWTON, IOWA.
_November_ 1905.

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