NEOGENY

THE REIGN OF REASON

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NEOGENY

THE REIGN OF REASON

AND

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

BY

HENRY PERRY

FEY, PH. D. B. D.

1919

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PREFACE.
must be gauged by the standards
usefulness, scarcity, cost of makeof all human production
up. The usefulness of this little volume will depend on the
The value

of a book

reader's mental evolution and demand.

The

scarcity of the

volume

is

unquestionable.

Never

before, in history, did a Catholic priest step out of the lux-

ury of parsonage and perquisites in order to become a

toiler

Never before did a priest make use

of his rights as a native American citizen to undo the plans
of his church whose hierarchy had secretly decided to retire him into the nervous wards of a private insane asylum
in order to keep him from speaking aloud the convictions
of his growing soul. It is a story more weird and uncanny
than that of a Galileo, Luther or Savanarola. Never before
of the printing press.

did a priest go back to the ranks of unchurchified thinkers

shaking off the ball and chain of superstitious fear and

stepping out into a service of reasoning love.

The

cost of

make-up

is

that of

PRODUCTION PLUS

FIFTEEN PER CENT PROFIT ONLY. The

law of "prothe economic

duction plus fifteen per cent profit only" is

law embryonically contained in the Twenty Laws of Life
presented by Neogeny. The form of the book is popular

and humble. There are theses in this book that might be

dignified by the make-up of a de luxe edition, but the writer
wishes to address himself to rich and poor. The book is not

written to justify the existence of the writer it is written

as the result of an unaccountable impulse felt ever since
his first year in philosophy.
It was and is an impulse in
favor of unterrified reasoning.

We

all

come

when romance and realclumpy complex. Those who are strong

to a period of life

ism get stuck in a

enough to clear and break the mental complex) will become
victorious thinkers and apostles of middle-age re-education.
Those who are too weak to break the complex, will have to
let others do their thinking and remain victims.
H. P. Fey.

EARTH'S TELOS.

G0D

GOD

That word weaves a

nation.

'

What

does

it

sibylline spell

mean

to the

round the imagi-

human

intellect?

always busy picking out the picturesque

but reason always insists on
knowing a thing in the glory of its unadorned reality. Reason produces the dramatic poet, imagination brings us to
Imagination

possibilities

is

of a concept

quick lyric grasps.

The imagination could never give us a sketchy picture
of the unknown reality which we call "God."
Reason is forced to admit that there is a superior and
intelligent physical and moral activity in the astronomic
world but it has never yet been able to give us a final

definition.

The imagination borrowed human terms whenever,

in

began to give us an impression of the Great

Elohim. It clothed "God" in human flesh, described his
actions with the flaming words of the big super-six passions,
and gave him hide and hair such as ours.
A "dove" or an "eye set in a perfect triangle" have
been made symbols of the deity above the world.
And we have all heard of DOTARD DEITIES.
We are all more or less guilty of a little anthropomorphism when we come to speak of God. The churches, whose
graft rests upon the selfish and financial exploitation of
the notion "GOD," are more guilty than the scientific and
history,

it

independent thinkers.
Alice Barnby, the famous harpist, said to her dear
friend, Julia, one confidential day:
"I have been reading
atheistic books for many years but when I inquire further
about the authors of such books, I find that they all admit
some PRIMORDIAL CAUSE, but they refuse to call it
;

"GOD."
Call

what we wish we must admit the presence of a

IDEA, of a MOBILE MIND and of a SPATIAL

it

MOTOR
NOUS or INTELLIGENCE.
What that sublime MOTOR IDEA
gradually

tell.

really

is,

science will

That

it is

a living intelligence and not a blind chance,

was Chance.

he
had said it was a conscious collocation of electrons, he would
have been more scientific for we can see from the composition and detail of creation that mental and careful calculation have been at work.
From the tiniest diatom which feeds the amoeba, up

we can

easily see.

Democritus said

it

If

to the

most

delicately poised brain of Caryl Storrs, there

an unmistakable trace of INTELLIGENT UNITY. The

siderial arrangement is a masterpiece of infinite and absois

lutely perfect intelligence.

We know

more about the Cosmic Mind now than we

did even four years ago.

Neogeny is the growing consciousness of the Mighty

Maker and his plans.
We know that the creative mind rules by the eternal
principles of his inner consistency

makes

all

that

this consistency

laws of existence uniform and immutable for

himself as well as for his productions.

We know that this BRAINLESS and UNLIMITED
MIND is active in uncharted distances.
But he has given to each planet the proper principles
by which it may work out its fame or shame.
We know that this PERFECT BEING has thrown us
upon self-help by giving us a reason like, his own.
The potentialities of reason are our only sacramental
helps on the planet earth.
* When a man begins to break away from the provincialism of churchified thinking, and steps out into the sunshine
of free reason, he is naturally tempted to deny the existence
of "GOD"
even if he has to use the appendix vermiformis
and the potato bug and the terrific tornado as an argument.
The appendix is a useful organ and functions well when
people are brought up on strong foods prepared by cooking
that is not too delicate and finicky.
The potato bug will persecute the tiller of the soil till
he begins to put back the verbascum on the farm. And the
bed-bug will continue his task of inoculating slothful men
and women with the antitoxin of slothful diseases.

Tornadoes are merely a proof that the city which

is

struck by them is not built according to information gained

from the scientists who study the productive connections
of thermal courses.

mere purposes

Cities built for

of financial gain and

without any regard for the air currents of our globe, must
expect to be lashed by those very air currents which they
so proudly ignored and insulted

Neogeny

is

the growth of

SUPERNAL BEAUTY

which

human

mamma

reason towards the

has taught us to call

"GOD."

When we have

found a few more of the inexhaustible

forces of nature, we will know more about this teleological
telos
God.

All the religions of the world are based on a search for

the living and infinitely intelligent power behind the world.

The Vedas, the Book

and

of the Dead, the Upanishads, the

the books written ever since Mohammed

issued the Koran show the patient probing of human reason and its curiosities into the inner life of the CREATIVE

Bible

all

CYTOPSYCHE.
The churches have each given their little solution.
Science has even been a more powerful escalator towards
the universal search and some day we will see our distant
worship changed into a warmer and closer communication
;

with the TELOS.

federation of nations will bring about a federation of

planets as science progresses then, after many centuries,

be able to come to a tryst with the LIVING REASON which is Justice and the LIVING JUSTICE which is
Reason.

we

will

This much is now established God is not the narrowminded accomplice of any church, but the equalizing power
which rewards all who seek to know and love him.

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THE ETERNAL TRYST OF THE MICRON AND THE

MACRON.

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RELIGION
Seneca said, "Omnibus de
man has some notion of God.

Shaw would
things.

call

him the

diis opinio insita est"

every

"tantalizing intelligibility" of

Emerson would have us think

of

him

as a trans-

Spencer gave it up, and called him

"THE UNKNOWABLE." Bayle says he is the "HOPELESS HAZE" which hangs over reality.
Ancient Egypt thought he was the unifying mystery
that brought all things to close sif tings. The Hebrew, who
borrowed his civilization from Egypt, represents him as
the head of a world theocracy. Greece had a theory about
his manifold and changeable beauty and fell into polytheism.
cendental immanence.

Rome

did likewise.

Assyrian civilization prevailed over the entire geogra-

phy

when

God was indeed far away

unknowable; but had become incarnate of a vir-

of antiquity

it

said that

and quite
gin girl and had walked the earth in a vesture of flesh.
Assyrian religions spread the theory of the virgin-born
Krishna into the very best philosophy of Imperial Rome
already 200 years before the Christian era.

And when the youthful and charming prophet from

Nazareth appeared on the mountains and in the valleys of
Galilee, there burst forth towards him all the tropic admiration and superlative adoration of Orientals who had been
taught to look for a humanized God. The fact that Jesus
did wonderful things, and the reports of his fine moral
integrity, at once threw him into the enhancing embrace
of sacred Oriental enthusiasm and theism.
Like Archimedes, who found the alloy in King Hiero's
crown, the followers of Christ sent out the victorious
"Eureka! we have found what the world longed and
reached out for all these thousand years! We have found
the incarnate God; his name is Jesus of Nazareth, king
of the Jews, and the second principle of the triune God."
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They gathered a literature of emotional adoration

around the charming young carpenter of Nazareth, gathered
and wise sayings, and gave their
lives in the most sublime heroism for the civilization of
that young emancipator who had shed more beauty and
poetic glamour upon life than any of the prophets and
up

all

his public utterances

singers of Israel.

Moses had the honor of giving to the world the masterful assembly of the decalogueTHE TEN FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF LIFEbut Jesus had come to his people
and through them to the world as the philosopher of even
higher and more divine verities and moral ascent.

The youthful and heart-winning Nazarine became

en-

throned as king of all Future Christian nobility, as an

of the new awakening, as a heaven-sent healer of
the diseased, and as the appointed judge of men.

Emanuel

now almost

nineteen hundred and twenty-five years

and
since the virgin visionary of Nazareth passed away
whilst the world still loves the young magician of mental
and moral winsomeness, it has long since realized that there
are more emancipators to come in order to educate them
to probe more deeply. From the mildness of the Nazarene
and from his yielding sensitiveness of soul, the world now
wants to be led to the new realization that this world
is ruled by principles rather than sympathy and emotion
that the sterner virtue of universal justice must begin to
work now where easy forgiveness left off. Litanies and
pompous prayers can never take the place of intelligent action and untiring personal self-education.
It is

The world

eager to learn more of the cosmic regulations which events and discoveries of the last four years
have revealed. Those cosmic regulations are the new grasp
which humanity has gained upon defying truth. Reason is
the instrument with which those and coming revelations of
science must be mastered and put into the brawny philosophy of the Twentieth Century.
is

No matter what

our opinion of God

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is,

we

all

join in the

search for the ULTIMATE UNIFIER God, Justice, Truth,

Love.
Charlie Frohman was always fond of truisms and ono
we heard him repeat over and over was, "There is nothing
permanent but change."
Behind the changes of the universe there is a synand that permanency is the common
thetic permanency
sensorium of the spheres. Call it "God" if you still love
the old Sunday School name.
;

To get
his laws,

To

is

into proper relation with the

Mighty Maker and

the work of religion.

establish kinship with

proachable moral living,

is

God by education and

irre-

the burden of religion's song

all

these million years.

Ever since man began to push his unicellular soul

through the loam of protozooic life, the microcosm has
longed for kinship with the macrocosm the lower has
aspired to ennoble its existence by association with the

higher.

The loving

and the jasmine called to the amphioxus, and the amphioxus called to the deft fairies of
carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur, potassium, calcium,
magnesium and sulphur and coaxed them gently into a romance with the living composition of the body of man.
Man is at present getting into closer adjuvancy with
his own race
he is beginning to feel that he must even
begin to look upon nationalism as childish side-play, and
that in a very short time the federation of all the races and
nations will send to the stars an overwhelming song of universal Love and Justice.
violet

The microcosm

be able to purify

lower
imperfections the macrocosm will stoop to conquer only
on this basis that the new justice of the world will be everywhere admitted. And this new justice reads
"No one shall
have a greater share in the joys and luxuries of life than his
fellow-man, unless he show a meritorious reason for special

will

itself of all

claim."

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It is

of higher

the work of religion to work out

knowledge and

the principles

all

life.

not a walled institution. God is large let

churches mince as they may.
Religion today has found her temple and mosque and
pagoda in Neogenic Intellectualism. This intellectualism
lives everywhere where there are human minds to be ransomed from ignorance and perverted passion.
Religion is everything that helps discover and keep the
Religion

is

truths and laws of the

COSMIC MIND.

Reason must bring

ideals of perfect and just

to this wall-less religion the

new

We can

omit the word

"loving" when we speak of reciprocity, because there can
be no love where there is injustice.

The growing

new

reciprocity.

justice of the world will bring to life the

love of the world.

Defects of the microcosm lost in the new union with the

macrocosm that is the new consciousness of the twentieth
century

of

Humanity vesting itself in the thoughts and principles

the Divine Mind that is the only divinity the Noble

Nazarene claimed for himself and invited men

Men and women

to strive for.

realizing that the sexual secretions

are the seat of vitality and resistance and learning how to

conserve them for personal and racial enrichment that
is the ethics of the new consciousness.

Knowing how

to convert nerve-force into mental,

and esthetic as well as

financial ecstasy

that

is

moral

the art of

neogenic living.

The medical treatment

of the twentieth century will

consist mainly in breaking up

all

fears and mental pusil-

lanimities into jubilant service of right reasoning.

In simple words

Neogeny holds

fiercely

and ferocious-

reason is the rock upon which the SUPREME

built the eternal church of progress and triumph.

ly that

human

Egypt made

human

experience ever since

Zeus, Pluto and Helios merge into Serapis
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triune force felt in

all

will
its

be the triple Bios. It is Reason, its Consciousness, and

Motor Action the terrestrial trinity.

All these statements sound like arbitrary

maxims, but

they are the philosophy of ten thousand years of

human

thinking.

They are the philosophy

of the Reign of Reason.

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THE LITERATURE OF CHRISTIANITY.

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THE

BIBLE.

Above the scene of constant change there is a BUOYANT UNITY. Above the complex of life there is a solemn
simplicity.

To bring humanity

into accord with the principles of

higher
Intelligence,
is the aim of religion
and
central
that
the microcosm must seek the vital harmony of the

macrocosm.
There is no necessity of proving the immortality of the
human soul. It is a prima facie fact. Nature does not
annihilate a force which has evolved itself, by superior
longings and activity, into a conscious living, admiring,
and loving factor in the planetary universe.
Human souls are forces of conscious connection between
the microcosm and the macrocosm.
Religion would not fill the soul with the poesy of supernal delights if the soul

was subject

to physical or electric

dissemination.

must connect souls with the higher

it must build up in them the conscious-

Religion, then,
realities of

space

ness of living reason.

The hope

of the world lies in the free and autonomic

incorporation of this planet into the higher harmonious

ALL.

And

the physical and ethical welfare of the individual depend upon his wish to enter into the
terms of incorporation.
federation of the

Religion, for me,

my

personal effort to reach the Intelligence which has made and which conserves. If I care
not to make that effort, I shall be classed among those who
sought mere existence instead of life. If the fear of low
classification and cosmic retaliation prompts me to exert
my best for the attainment of real relationship with living
divinity, I deserve to be classed with the inhabitants of
the minor planets. The first condition is Heaven, the second
is

is

Hell.
If real positive love of

me on

to unity

unf oldment urges

me and

with Immeasurable Intelligence

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pushes
deserve to

be classed with the population of the major planets and,

eventually, with the brilliant beings of more marvelous solar
systems. That is Heaven.
Official religion

the Lord."

And

it

always called that Fear the "Fear of

called the correct classification of souls

which takes place after our physical bodies have gone back
"Heaven, Transmigration,
into the processes of nature

Purgation or Hell."

Testament show how religious

thinkers and leaders tried to lash humanity into harmony
with living divinity by fear. The New Testament shows
how the Noble Nazarene tried to lead a fear-stricken world

The books

of the Old

The

into the "loving service of the Father."

letters of

Paul of Tarsus begin the first appeal to man's reason they

show the first and last efforts of Christian followers to win

men

into a half-contented solution of vicarious

harmony

through Christ.

From

a literary standpoint, the Bible is the Book of

Books. All the witchery of oriental and Eastern imagery
and hyperbole and allegory are found in its pages. All the
simplicity of grand conceptions
the innate art of the young
prophet of Nazareth are to be admired in its chapters.
All the majestic and causal movements of national and universal history are to be studied in its books.

There are no autographic copies of the New Testament

to be found anywhere in the world.
The twenty-seven
books of the New Testament are copied from copies. It is
claimed by the Jews that some autograph copies of the Old
Testament are extant closer neogenic paleography will
investigate that claim very soon.

When

Roman and more

purposive and systematic

section of early Christianity compiled the 72 books of the
Bible and gathered them under one cover and called the
compilation the "book which has God for its author," it
had no autographic copies of any biblical books in its possession. That was the time of final compilation in the year,
379, A. D.
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the

always remain a monument in the history

of the race's religious development.
As the product of a people whose monotonous but
picturesque life made them long for everlasting freedom
in eternity, it must be read by every student of history.
As a literary work, it must be studied by every lover
because its style is that of elemental exof literary forms

The Bible

will

pression.

For boldness of thought, for majesty of expression,

for sublimity of conception,

it

has not been surpassed even

by Greek and Roman literature.

There are few parallels to the magnificent language of
Sacred poetry is distinguished by strength
the Psalms.
and conciseness of style; and we can safely say that the
upanishads do not vitalize religious imagination as strongly
as the Bible.
The style of the Bible is fervid and full of life-like
figures. Connections are obscure here and there
but thai
is the unique characteristic of great aspiration and sublime
struggle for the HIGHER UNITY.

Genesis is the collection of most ancient stories about

the beginning of the world and its intellectual and spiritual
race. 'Leviticus is a code of laws compiled by Moses for the
people whom he longed to free from slavery and barbarity.
The other books of Moses give us an account of the slow
and wearied rise of a people from barbarity. The historical
books show the growth of an isolated nation towards a
theocracy all its own. The Song of Songs is an alternating
love-monologue. The Lamentations of Jeremiah are pure
elegies.
The writings of the prophets are grand lyrics.
The book of Job is a drama.

The gospels are specimens of pastoral narrative and of

superlative allegory. The letters of the other New Testament writers are correspondences and show delicate, yet
forceful, epistolary art. The Apocalypse is a model of Greek
tragedy.

Since the Bible was compiled, thousands of books have

been written which spurn men on to great thought and
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moral ideals. They contain the same inspiring qualities of

the book which the Council of Ancyra claimed had "God for
its Author."
Emerson's Essays is a book of latter day
revelations.

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THE MEEK MAHDI.

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THE NOBLE NAZARENE.

To the Oriental mind a mahdi is a religious leader who
To
is gifted with high oratory and religious personality.
be acclaimed a perfect mahdi, he must give promise of a
liberator and show signs of power. He must magnetize his
age with his eloquence and deeds.
A Mahdi must stimulate men's innate desire for perfection, he must localize deity by a dominant view, he must
sublimate the emotions, he must emancipate men from ignorance and disease; and he must liberate from economic
injustice.

The young Nazarene had learned

an early
age in the synagogue of Nazareth. His father and mother
belonged to that class of Jews who love the great and sincere
prophets, but pay no heed to false agitators.
They observed the rites of the synagogue and temple, but were modestly and silently ashamed of priestcraft and Pharisaical
to read at

hypocrisies.

Many

a time, and oft, did the youth hear his father dis-

cuss the hopes of Israel with the

men who came

into the

carpenter shop and they all seemed to be one in the expectation of a messiah whom the Jews would be proud to
hail as a political liberator.
Jesus had intensified his spiritual personality by the
reading of the Hebrew canon the sacred books as well
as by his persual of older Asiatic literatures. In order to
come up to the ideal of his nation, he had to be truly spiritual and yet assume the mimetic qualities of a political lead-

er.

To a mere

would have proved

a dire impossibility under the colonial tyranny of Rome.
He did stimulate the fagged desires of his people toward the totality of higher spiritual perfection.
He localized deity by asserting that he was the "son
of God" and that an agape with him was a close and intimate adjustment of souls to the heavenly Father.
He sublimated the emotions by turning pride into admiration, envy into benevolence, enmity into forgiveness
intellectual his mission

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and friendship, impatience into long-suffering, suffering into

resignation, terror into tenderness.

He emancipated

his contemporaries

from the pedantic

ignorance in which the priests of the temple kept the people

by their shifting casuistry and dwarfing ritualism.

He cured the diseases of his time by the magnetic
psycho-therapy of his vibrant mind. Diseases of those days
were mostly afflictions which follow upon dirt and unsanitary living. Even today a tourist may see little children in
the streets of Jerusalem and surroundings covered with
septic slimes and with eyes and ears clogged and made unAnd the diseases which
sightly by neglected excretions.
rendered men possessed of the devil and Beelzebub, the
prince of devils, were paralysis, neurophonia and paranoia.
Medical science cites cases of paralysis which make the
patient appear dead and cause irritable odors. It is certain
that Lazarus had been a poor paralytic. He was well-read,
and the young Nazarene often sought the hospitality of his
house in order to spend a social evening with him and his

sisters.

Guido paralyzed one of his models to prepare a painting

of the crucifixion
and when, one day, the authorities
rushed in upon him to arrest him for murdering models,
he cried out to the victim with a deep pectoral and authoritative voice and suddenly brought him back to conscious;

ness.

The Noble Nazarene failed in liberating the Jewish peofrom economic injustice that is why the Jews even in
our day refuse to acknowledge any of his siderial claims.
Two thousand battle fields have had to buy our liberation from the governmental tyranny of caesars and from

ple

the economic injustice of autocratic rulers.

The
ciliate

CHARMING YOUNG CARPENTER

had to conthe contradictions of his surroundings by meekness

and there lay the reason of his failure.

The most potent and persevering demand for absolute
justice should have been his policy.
Meekness generates dejection, sadness, despondency
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and

failure.

It

eventually drags melancholy, dread, self-

contempt, and shame into the chorus.

Politically, the Nazarene could not break his birth's
"invidious bar;" but by his love for mankind, and by his
personal moral integrity, he broke forth into the universal
love of the centuries. Love always lives forever.
His crystalline moral integrity was enhanced by the
dematerialized love of Mary Magdalene.
And still the sensualist will claim that platonic and
spiritual love between men and women is impossible
!

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THE CHRISTIAN KINESIS.

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MOVEMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY.
The twelve fishermen who had followed the youthful
prophet with all the glow of that enthusiasm which makes
a

man leave

all

and follow his new vision

were as much

dis-

appointed over the execution of the popular idol as the five

thousand who sat at the repast of the multiple mentation of
loaves.

They had followed the young seer and psychic marvel

over mountains and into cities on what charge could the
Roman Tribune have executed him?
They were told that the Nazarene was executed on the

charge of "seduction of the people." A dreadful disenchantment to the crowds who had hailed him with "Hosanna,
the son of David!"
Crowds always fall back when political tricksters have
snuffed out the high lights of self liberation and killed the
heroes of the higher hope. The sudden silence of popular
disappointment made Mary Magdalen and many silent
adorers of the Nazarene hysterical they claimed he had
risen from the dead.
In their spirit burned the furious
flame of a great love.
A great love gives gigantic powers of recrudescence,
and when the depressions of disappointment have trailed
away, it breaks out in a reckless and victorious assertion of

its

solar strength.

When it thunders and threatens on a day which you

had set for a great deed, you are not dismayed but you
suddenly put a mightier magnanimity upon the minor one.
The twelve men had set Pentecost Sunday for the day
on which they would go forth from their chambers of
mourning and face the world with their conviction. A
heavy thunder rolled above them but these men were no
longer to be intimidated even by the elements. An immense
idea cares for none of Nature's elements.

They rushed out

into the street speaking

the dialects
they had ever heard and preached the message of the new
nobility.
And five thousand people made their enesis into
the new philosophy on that day.
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all

The law

measure and
back, a new five thousand

of retaliation always returns full

who

for the five thousand

fell

stepped forward.

Baptism is the enesis into the Nobility of the Nazarene.

Christ himit is a formal initiationIt is not a sacrament
self took this initiation at the hands of the Baptist and
made it the ceremony of formal acceptance in his movement.
Just as you would take and wear a button for a new idea.

He who

receives baptism puts on the button of Chris-

tianity.

So universally agreed upon was the initiation of baptism that all Christian churches baptize. They agree that
anyone can initiate a fellow-being into the Christian nobilprivate baptism is considered valid by every sect.
ity

(XV

Tacitus, in his Annals

441), tells us that the

founder of Christianity had been put to death in the reign
of Tiberius

He says the
new movement "A DEADLY

by the procurator Pontius

Romans considered
SUPERSTITION."

the

Pilate.

That DEADLY SUPERSTITION proved the bane of

Pagan PRINCIPLES.
It also proved itself the dominant key of the entire
Christian Chord Structure.
This

little

book

will not

history of Christianity with

and

presume

to give the reader a

all its brilliant

open cadenzas

"hidden fifths" of latter-day intellectual cruelties

but it does claim that Christianity is dead for years and
humanity demands a stronger and clearer concept of reits

ligion.

That

a statement which will shock the traditions of

nineteen centuries but after it has grappled to itself the
late realization of millions of consistent and correct thinkers, it will

is

become the motive power of

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civilization's soul.

ERIS VERSUS EROS.

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FROM OBSESSION TO POSSESSION.

There is always a struggle between the approved ancient and the noisy new. Whenever an old idea has died, its
petrified lovers threaten resurrection and ultimate victory
in its behalf.

But Christianity, as an official religion, is dead. It degenerated into mere Churchiani^ and must now turn its
cathedrals and churches into social and educational centers
of more staminal science.
Churchianity died when ten million men stood aghast
in the trenches and cried
"Where is this God the churches
chortled about?
Where is the avenging God of injured
:

justice ?"

Churchianity died when these ten million men suddenly

realized that God rules the world by the power of principles
and not by sacramental sorceries.

Churchianity died when the nations found out that

these principles must be worked out by a majority of enlightened human strength and educated reason followed by
proportional enthusiasm.

Churchianity died when the better races of the world

sacrifice which ransoms is the sacrifice

saw that the only

of absolute

human

justice

and reason.

Churchianity died when both Europe and America suddenly saw that litanies and pompous prayers are useless
when intelligence and determination of principles are the
forces which the Supreme Reason ordained to renovate the
race and maintain

its

happiness.

Churchianity died when the twenty real laws of life became evident the laws which the churches had taught only
with sickening and half-hearted championship.
Churchianity died when the new philosophic consciousness brought the abrupt conviction that if we live according to the cosmic code of the universe, we will need no
churches to teach us how to die.

Churchianity died when

we became amazed

that Infinite Intelligence had left to our planet

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all

at the fact

the proper

laws and principles by which to work out our racial fame

cr shame and that we have many of these principles and
laws still to learn.

Churchianity died when we saw that intelligent living

and not neurotic miracles will save individual and nation

from the Law of Expropriation.
Churchianity died when the Kulturism of "Me Und
Gott" fell before the marshalled millions of universal battle
and we saw that God is not the narrow-minded accomplice
of an egoistic church but the equalizing love force in all who
strive to make Nature's Nobility come to judgment.
Churchianity died when all the nations fell down upon
their quivering knees to pray for victory.
The clouds
"Pray not for victory, but educate all men
answered back
to value the principles of true mutuality and solidarity."
Churchianity died that day when the world learned
that the Creative Mind has supplied everything if we will
but seek it.
:

this

Churchianity died when we saw that our ethics up to

day have been the ethics of supine sloth and life-sick

orientalism.

Churchianity died when we saw that active love springing from correct reasoning is the only power of balance and
check against injustice.
Churchianity died when we found ourselves badgered
by the churches into weakness, dangerous listlessness, ingrowing ignorance and superstition.
Churchianity died when the mountain of civilization
suddenly burst open and with the volcanic violence of
Manna Loa spread over the intellectual sky an irridescence
never seen before.

By Churchianity
churchmen of the

mean the human manipulation by

real laws of thinking

criminal breeding in the hearts of

men

and living

the

of a static and sicken-

ing fear.

live,

The independent and pure truths of Christianity will

but they will bring humanity to conquests only after
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they have been wrested from selfish churches who care

more for contribution than they do for evolution.
There are emancipators yet to come revelation is a
continuous process.

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THE PERFECT

33

PHILIA.

THE NEW REALIZATION.

The new

realization has been

named Neogeny by the

He is not dazed with the dream of starting a new

religion. He claims to be merely a pure-reason spokesman
of the new COSMOPOLITAN CONVICTION.
Neogeny, or THE NEW AWAKENING, claims that we

writer.

have been forced to admit, in the last four years, that the
restive emotions of life are not as serviceable to human development as the active emotions.
We need rest and comfort at rhythmic intervals. Nations as well as individuals must obey that natural law. But
there is a time when a comfortable religion is apt to make
us fall into lethargy and lotus-eating; and that is fatal,
because the principle of triumphant and progressive living
is

"EVER-RESUMED ACTION."
The

heaven will consist in the restive

Its
possession of certainty with DISCOVERED DEITY.
continuance, however, depends upon ever-resumed and new
action for man's faculties. Novelty in Eternity and Eterbeatific vision of

nity in Novelty.

When

a comfortable religion has served its time and

has begun to slacken the sinews of man into laziness, it is
time to blow the bugle for a new reveille.
Neogeny is the new bugle call.
The notes of the new call are these
"Greed, Laziness and Lechery must pass away!"
"We must trust in the superior mechanics of re-education physical, mental, moral."
"The laws of absolute justice are immutable!"
"We have received the new consciousness of the inde-

pendent eternity of Truth."

"We must

enter into a united participation of profits

and progress."

"We must
human weal."

hold to world-unity and to the solidarity of

"Mutual Understanding

will

Love."

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lead to the

League of

"Pure Reason must work out

life's utilities,

comforts

and joys."
"False Principles, and not Feelings, estrange men from
one another."
"We must hold to the practical salvation which leads
through progressive pulsation and does not suddenly collapse in eternal damnation."
"We must teach the religion of the Now and the Here
and leave the speculations of the hereafter to the autistic
causality of the earth-life

we

are leading."
"We must let imagination be the anticipation and enthusiasm of initial reasoning on kamic subjects. The poetry
of wide and hopeful reasoning is the only poetry that lives."
"We must make woman the symbol of renewal and
goodness, and not the ideal of pleasure. As long as woman
is held up as the acme of pleasure, millions of her sex will
play on the sensual chords of life only and the moral weakness of the world will bring on diseases and collapse."
"We must treat disease as a loss of activity in the
twelve vital elements of the human constitution the primal
elements are Lime, Iron Phosphate, Sulphates, Magnesia
and Salt. Sin is not the only cause of disease ignorance is
the greatest."

THOU

take the
SHALT NOT' out of all
direction and guidance and out of all education we must
show that moral exactness pays physically, morally, mental-

"We must

ly

and

financially."

"We must

get rid of sectional feeling and throw ourselves into the solidarity and unity of the Earth no matter
what the history or color of any race may be."

"We must

give mating love a share in the universal

productivity, and philosophic governments must build homes
for the pairing lovers and let

The homes should be

them pay

for

them on

built according to the plans

time.

which

the legally engaged couple have expressed."

"We must remedy

the evils of society by education in

physico-moral prevention. The best cure of any evil is a
course in scientific prevention."
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"We must

teach that the trick always goes back to

master."

TTCHE
What

boots

to

it

preacK trutk and love

And prate of
When men despise
Which

hell or

e'en the wild crude bruteman saw?

Peace was too great

For

But now

selfish
all

After

a happiness

mortals to possess-

guns and creeds hav*e died

a dreadful

homicide.

Let's learn fore'er to take

And
Only

heaven above

the simplest law

help

all

and give

fellow-strugglers live.

w'here Justice holds sweet sway

Will Love and Peace be born and stay

For Justice

is

the mother-breast

At which

twin Love and Peace find

H.

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rest.

P. Fey

its

ARISTON AND AKRON.

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OUR RE-EDUCATION.
The churches can no longer batten and fatten on the
ignorance of the world they must come out and help re-

educate and rehabilitate by pure reasoning.

A heretic is no longer a miserable and execrable wretch
who must be burned at the stake and scorched with the faggots of contempt. A heretic is a man who sees a truth
from his own peculiar angle. If he is willing to look at it
from all angles until he gets a perspective, he should be
welcomed as one who has come to help form correct judg-

ment and tranquil technique.

The only anarchist who must be taken

into custody,

the angry agitator who wishes to destroy all present government before he has gained the voting intelligence of a
democratic people over to a sanction of his Utopian ULTIis

MATUM.
The only press that should be muzzled and censured,

is

the press which furtively forestalls all pitiless and public

discussion of querulous questions.
The only school that should be shut down, is the school
that warps little minds away from universal investigation
of profane and sacred issues.

The only church which has outlived its usefulness is

the church which blindly refuses to help the world to every
new truth and which insists stubbornly that its teachings
are the last word of revelation.

Revelation is an eternal process no church can claim

the right to arrest its onward developments.
Up to the age of twenty, a man thinks under the tutelage of a church, of his parents, or of the press after that
he must leave father and mother and brother and sister

and cleave unto his own reason.

Only when the thinking areas of his brain have been
muddled and destroyed by alcoholic orgies or by cerebral
diseases, has any one else the right to do his thinking for
him.

Common

consent of the world decides a man's right to

think for himself when he is normal.

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The only man who should be deprived of

the

man who

will persistently

is

deny his partner a chance.

The only song that should be taken out

is

his chance

of the press,

the song which incites unnecessary discontent in the

world.

The only doctor who should be put

one who draws out and aggravates
kills

adult or incipient

life,

his life

in the

pen

is

the

human

misery. If he
should be taken. Life

and that of the poorest tramp is sometimes worth

than
that of the ignorant millionaire and that of the
more
unborn may be worth more than that of millions who have
gone to death and dissolution.
The only lawyer that should be disbarred is the patrol
chaser who dotes on human trouble and gorges himself with
the wrongs rather than with the rights of men.
The only young man who should be submitted to
vasectomy is the wooer who plays upon the imagination of
frail and fervid floosies in order to make them shareholders
in his degeneracy and fellow-sufferers in his corrosive and
is life;

contracted diseases.
The only bride that should be forbidden to wear a bridal
veil is the girl who is not giving the man she marries the

immaculate mysteries of her maidenhood.

The only people that should be prevented from having
full liberty in selecting and choosing a virgin love, are the
people who are ready to bring to the marriage ceremony unscrupulous violations
standard swine.
of

of

personal

virginity

the

double

The only mother that should be exonerated of the rights

motherhood is the woman whose body and soul are unfit

to bring

new

life into

the world.

The only man who should be given over

ishment

is

the

man who

to capital pun-

has deliberately taken the earth-

franchise from a fellow-man.

The only diseases that should be treated with the knife

are strictly surgical diseases all others should be treated

biochemically and by the psychotherapist.
Neurotic obsessions should be treated by mind cures.

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THE DIVINE DYNAMIS.

40

LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

God must be most beautiful because we see the myriad
marvels of his work invested in unity. Unity is the criterion
of Beauty.

Plato of the Academy, Zeno, the Stoic, and Aristotle of

peripatetic philosophy tried to express the natural admira-

by pointing

tion of unity

Socrates said:

to the unities of the skies.

"Know

thyself and thou shalt

know

the All."
In other words, Infinite Intelligence is just as great
in the construction of the smallest bug as it is in the highly
specialized mechanism of the human anatomy.
The perfection of a thing depends upon the law of
the pooling of cells around their proper axis.
unification

One atom is sweetheart to the other.

Every life-cell assimilates only that which

its

native

love can integrate itself with.

Love

integration

is

towards the perfect.

Among men

the pooling of the imperfect

the union of the two half-cells.

it is

It is

the rational discrimination of the

real thought,
of the fancy from the reality, of the passing from the
fit

from the

love

unfit,

is

of the imagery from the

permanent.

Love

is

the complete expression of the long repressed

is

the subtle overture to

purpose.

Love

life's real

composition

marriage.
No one has ever defined love clearly. Those who have
loved as intensely as Sappho and Juliet can tell us so little.

Love the "law of coherence," or the "principle of

dissociation," it remains the divine dynamis and mystery
Call

of the world.

much we know

that

we do

not use our rational

discrimination in love, we must suffer the consequences.
Every human heart loves. There never yet was a soul in
whose sacred groves the nightingale did not sing its trilling

This

song.

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if

There never was yet a man or woman who did not plunge
themselves into woeful wedlock when they let love rule without reckoning with reason.
When the writer was a boy he one day stopped before
one of those signs placed at railroad crossings. It read
this way:
"STOP, LOOK, LISTEN."
To all lovers of the world, the whole cosmic congregation calls out:

"STOP, LOOK, LISTEN."

Use your best counsellor reason.

For marriage is God's plan for the perpetuation of
and for

its

perfection.

come and go

are to

Marriage

is

the cradle of souls

the store-house of the future.

Marriage to the right mates is love's best reward.
makes duty sacred, labor sweet, and ambition real.

Through

new

life

who

it is

It

upon their eternal quest.

As one electron generates another, and as one candle
it

souls are sent

ignites the other, so the soul of the father sends forth the

new independent

Woman

life

unit the

child.

the life-bearer whilst man is the life producer. Both must regard the mystery of sex as sacred and
inviolable. Both are the real "keepers of the royal secret."
The child should receive the first knowledge of its own
origin from the lips of the parent and no parent should
allow a child to remain ignorant until some foul-mouth has
taken the poetry out of its life by telling it all about its
origin in the lecherous language of the lustful loafer.
The mystery of our conception and birth is the transcendent poetry of our life. And if an impure imp has given
us the first fundamentals in it, our mind is forever robbed
is

of

it's

best gold.

The mother

of Bancroft always broached the story of

their life to the children in these beautiful and delicate

"Nine long waiting months before you were born,

carried you close to my heart."
Love selects, eliminates, unifies and eternalizes.
Do you doubt that it needs the guardianship of reason ?

words:
I

Then

just read the story of the

This young

man

young man, Kallikak.

married a feeble-minded
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girl at

the

time of the American revolution. His descendants at the

last counting were 480.
Only 46 were a little above imbecility.
One hundred and forty three were afflicted with de-

mentia precox.
Thirty-six were maniacs.

Thirty-three were paretics.

Twenty-four were alcoholics.

Seven had hydropsy.
Eight had hemicrania.
Six were hypochondriacs.
Five were capital criminals.
Three were epileptics.
Twenty were morons of the worst type.
Sixteen were moral outcasts.
One hundred died in infancy.
That same Martin Kallikak married a woman of superb
healthy stock after the American revolution and the descendants of that second marriage do honor to the -race.
They were all physically sturdy and hardy and well proportioned.

One hundred were doctors.

Eighteen were educators.
One hundred and six were landlords.
Seventy were preachers.
Sixty six were advocates or lawyers.
One was at the head of the Medical Association.
Two hundred were smokers.
Seven used liquor on social occasions.
Thirty seven were surveyors.
Three died of infantile diseases.

None became

criminals.

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EIMARMENE.

44

FUTURE CIVIL GOVERNMENTS.

The purpose of past governments
world was mostly negative.

in the history of the

governments shall be positive.

Democracy tends towards the establishment of rights
and happiness. The punishment of crime shall be a mere
by-play; for crime will become diminished and the "PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" under well organized governments
shall be our consuming creed.
Future

He who

civil

deliberately deprives a

his life shall be taken

by the

state-

human
He has

being of

life

lost his earthly

franchise.

The

state shall protect

and reward coverture.

many

prevention stations so as to enable

any man, woman or child to be examined free twice a year,
and learn their physical, mental and moral status if they are
It shall erect

interested in their

life.

down any exorbitant high prices

by planting here and there a few marts. Fifteen per cent
The

state will keep

plus cost shall be the law.

It is

not the business of a state to go into business

the duty of the state to procure and maintain nor-

but

it is

mal

prices.

The

state will respect the individual.

The

individual

not for the state, but the state is for the individual.
A man's privacy shall not be invaded as long as it does
not violate the established right of another human being.
The state will give us the equipoise of co-operation according to the principles which we have been shedding blood
for so many thousand years.
is

Churches shall become the laboratories of new sciences.

The American Flag shall be the symbol of the freedom
that brought to men the privilege of seeking God un-

trammelled, unrestrained, unenslaved.

The law of fifteen per cent plus cost shall be universal
in the parliament of the world.
Love will solve the problem of race hatreds by bringing
together the highest type of the inferior race with the lowest type of the superior.
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ALETHEIA.

46

THE TRUTH.
Pilate asked the

young Nazarene, "What

is

truth?"

the irresistible evidence of things. As hunger

and love rule the physical world, so the longing for truth
and beauty reign in the intellectual world.
Truth vindicates itself with the statement: "Everything in the world has an equal cause."
What, think you, is the cause of the moral laxity of our

Truth

is

days?
not the sudden wildness that has come upon us?
And that wildness and recklessness has come from the quick
disappearance of the old and the slow adjustment to the new.
There is only one way of living that is the one which
follows the trail of the laws of preservation, honor, selfesteem and justice.
Self-destruction is the unlawful indulgence of any passion.
The passions are the instruments of life and must
be used each in its proper function. Just at present, pleasure is the excess of men and excess of pleasure kills more
quickly than excess of sorrow.
Those who can give pleasure are welcomed everywhere
but when the sensualist has sated himself, he casts away
the thing of pleasure like a sucked orange and thanks the
stars of his time that he has not contracted any obligations.
Most pleasures are deceitful. They lure women by
their siren song of dress and guile and powder and rouge.
The real pleasure of men is a vibrant clean body and
a self-trusting, sincere mind.
Reason out the cause of all things and you will find
that the universe is constructed so that by right reparations
evil things can even be turned to some good.
Brady, the gardener of Bancroft, knew that the species
rose was capable of a wide evolution. He took the weaker
and defective varieties, and crossed them into the unity of
the American Beauty Rose.
Truth, the irresistible content of things, will be the
Supreme Authority of the world, and democracies will exist
only as long as they stand the test of the cumulative progIs it

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ress of truth.

The

final test of

truth shall always be found

in the intelligent assent of the world.

The heart-born and brain-tested verdict of humanity

shall give sanction to truth

sents

no matter who finds and pre-

it.

Reason for analysis and synthesis

love for the

realiza-

tion of reason's findings.

Wars, disease, pest, poverty and pain are the instruments which the Supreme Reason uses to regulate rank
reasoning. They are the divine law of the thumb for foolish
History proves that.
Truth will bring each separate nation into the consciousness of the Internation, but love will work out the new
life and the new civilization which mortals must find.
The double standard of sex will disappear and a young
man will bring his physical and mental integrity to the marriage ceremony as conscientiously as the young bride.
Marriage will observe the supreme moments of conjugal
affection and the rhythms of eriodic rest and thereby keep
the health of husband and wife and transmit to the children
vigorous heredity.
Love will not be limited in its choice by religious legislature, but only by the laws of common reason. Amorous
happiness will gain victories over any public opinion of race
fallacies.

hatred.

Love will be respected as the most divine tendency towards international unity.
Governments will reckon with love as with an economic
factor.

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PHILOSOPHIC GOVERNMENT.

49

THE NECESSARY SEQUENCES OF THE PAST.

As mental complexes
sions of

life,

arise

from the

earliest impres-

so the present days of history are the elabora-

tion of the past.

Truth
sarily

is

supreme authority but authority

is

not neces-

Truth.

Governments,
analysis of

must be able to stand the

Every citizen of a democracy

like churches,

common

reason.

should be obliged to attend a series of lectures on Black*

stone's Common Law we must have intelligent and educated votes for the permanence of a democracy otherwise
the nation will fall back into mere hero worship or back
into the toils of cunning monarchy, tyranny and slavery.
Truth is supreme authority and the enthusiasm which
follows upon the conceptions of truth is the real poetry and
music of life. All other poetry or music is mere static
rhythm of injurious ignorance.
Insanity is the inbreeding of warped mentality. It is
arrested ignorance grown into a compact and immovable
neurosis.
A warped mentality is caused by parents and
teachers and preachers who hide from the age of puberty
the sacred inner secrets of the sexual sacrament.
The social evil will continue as long as love must meet

disappointment by the fluctuations of economic comfort and

certainty and women will sell their bodies to the passing
lusts of men as long as they are kept by unjust economics
from making the precious vitality and nerve force of their

bodies serve the universe.

Old people will unfortunately fall victims to vice as long
as they are thrown aside and not given a station of reduced

usefulness in the body politic.

Babies will stop visiting this earth and beginning their
eternal excrescence through human parents, unless the child
is

made the symbol

in the

of man's highest and purest realization

macrocosm.

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CONCLUSION.

DEAR READER:
The manuscript of this little book was found in my
safe whilst I was at a sanitarium slowly recovering from
an automobile accident. It was written for the pleasure of
my own self-expression during the happy hours of my
philosophic reading.
I

my

do not think

would ever have published

it

many of

advised me not to.

felt like a suicide and hypocrite to cast

clerical friends

And

yet, I

it

away.

found it in my safe, my bishop became

alarmed. He was archbishop Ireland. He wrote to me in
"Rome is suspicious that
his own hand January 3, 1917:

When Rome

my priests

do not want the suspicion."

A few months after, still hoping to receive the cardinal's hat, he gave the sisters at the sanitarium to understand that he would pay for my room and board at the
sanitarium and that he wished the doctors to keep me
under committal "at least until the promotion to the cardinalate will be made by the Holy Father at Rome."
With the help of Uncle Sam, I frustrated all plans of
committal and charges of "peculiarity," and stepped out with
courage to face the world with my convictions.
I could no longer render yeoman service to the Roman
Religion, and feel that I was sincere and I felt good coming
out of the evil designs of my superiors I was at last fired
with the courage to be myself.
The chapters of this book contain my new convictionsI give the book to the world in condensed form
the
original contained four hundred pages.
Should the reader feel any curiosity as to the rest of
the book, he is free to write to me, and I shall be pleased to
answer.
Having seen human disease and human deterioration
in its most frightful forms, and having met a woman who
had the same ambition as I have that of helping men by
intelligent prevention to live out their life with the least
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are too liberal.

possible sickness,

and Prevention.

mean

to give

For that reason

my

Biochemistry
have qualified myself for
life to

a doctor's degree in Biochemistry

It is our hope to be able to open up to the public a post
of Prevention where ailing people can get a free diagnosis
and be directed towards the best means of keeping chronic
troubles far from them.
Should any of my readers feel kindly towards such a
project we beg them to express their interest by voluntary
contribution for which we will send them a receipt and
which will appear accounted for in the report of construc-

tion.

Yours sincerely for free discussion and lawful expression,

H. P. FEY, Ph. D. B. D.
307 8th St. So.,
Minneapolis, Minn.

ANNOUNCEMENT.
The publication

of this original book will be followed by

a monthly magazine later

when the author

good
kamic atom-^has fallen into the particular place which a
higher design than that of his own mind has given him
like a

the accolade for.

For lectures of educational and non-sectarian and unchurchified subjects, write to me when you have arranged
the occasion.

Mention particular subject of lecture at least one week

ahead.

Charge for lecture

$25.00 plus fare.

Lectures should be chiefly on the philosophy called
Neogeny or on Biochemical Prevention.
There are three standard lectures which are merely
touched upon in this work. They are
Adolescence and Love.
is

Re-education.
Self-preservation.

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