d is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be
happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy
is to make others so.

_Question_. What is going to take the place of the pulpit?

_Answer_. I have for a long time wondered why somebody didn't
start a church on a sensible basis. My idea is this: There are,
of course, in every community, lawyers, doctors, merchants, and
people of all trades and professions who have not the time during
the week to pay any particular attention to history, poetry, art,
or song. Now, it seems to me that it would be a good thing to have
a church and for these men to employ a man of ability, of talent,
to preach to them Sundays, and let this man say to his congregation:
"Now, I am going to preach to you for the first few Sundays--eight
or ten or twenty, we will say--on the art, poetry, and intellectual
achievements of the Greeks." Let this man study all the week and
tell his congregation Sunday what he has ascertained. Let him give
to his people the history of such men as Plato, as Socrates, what
they did; of Aristotle, of his philosophy; of the great Greeks,
their statesmen, their poets, actors, and sculptors, and let him
show the debt that modern civilization owes to these people. Let
him, too, give their religions, their mythology--a mythology that
has sown the seed of beauty in every land. Then let him take up
Rome. Let him show what a wonderful and practical people they
were; let him give an idea of their statesmen, orators, poets,
lawyers--because probably the Romans were the greatest lawyers.
And so let him go through with nation after nation, biography after
biography, and at the same time let there be a Sunday school
connected with this church where the children shall be taught
something of importance. For instance, teach them botany, and when
a Sunday is fair, clear, and beautiful, let them go into the fields
and woods with their teachers, and in a little while they will
become acquainted with all kinds of tress and shrubs and flowering
plants. They could also be taught entomology, so that every bug
would be interesting, for they would see the facts in science--
something of use to them. I believe that such a church and such
a Sunday school would at the end of a few years be the most
intelligent collection of people in the United States. To teach
the children all of these things and to teach their parents, too,
the outlines of every science, s