The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion

HIS MORALS, POLITICS AND RELIGION
BY WILLIAM SIMPSON
THIRD EDITION
Revised and Enlarged by an Extended Preface and a Chapter on Woman Suffrage
Press of E. D. Beattie, 207 Sacramento St. San Francisco
Copyright, 1900, by the Author.
TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES LICK who, by his munificent bequests to SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, CHARITY AND EDUCATION has indicated in the manner of their disposal, that humanity, wisdom, and enlightenment, arising out of the convictions of modern thought, which holds these, his beneficiaries to be the noblest and divinest pursuits of mankind, and the only possible agencies in the betterment of society. This Book is reverently inscribed By the Author.

Any one advanced in life who has enjoyed opportunities of knowledge derived from association with men and books, and who has an inclination to reach the bottom of things by his own independent thought, is apt to arrive at conclusions regarding the world and society very different from those which had been early impressed upon him by his superiors and teachers. From a suspicion, at first reluctantly accepted, but finally confirmed beyond a doubt, he finds that he has been deceived in many things. The discovery arouses no indignation because he knows that his early instructors were in most cases the victims of misdirection themselves, and are therefore not to be held accountable for the promulgation of errors which they had mistaken for truths. His self-emancipation has so filled his mind with a better hope for the future of the world, and a higher opinion of his fellow men, that the delight and satisfaction of the discovery overcomes every sentiment except pity for those who had been leading him astray, and if the feeling of condemnation or censure comes to his mind at all, it is only for those few who live and thrive upon those delusions having their origin in the past, and whose chief purpose in life is to keep them alive and to bolster them up among the multitude.