We cannot repeat too often nor emphasize too strongly this one simple fact, that we need all our energy and time to make this world fit to live in; to make homes where mothers are happy and children are glad—homes where fathers hasten when their work is done, and are welcomed with a shout of joy.
The toilers who wend up the hillside,
The toilers below in the mill
Alike are the victims of priestcraft,
They "do but the Master's will."
The Master's will! ah the cunning,
The bitterly cruel device,
To wring from the lowly and burdened
Submission at any price!
Submission to tyrants in Russia—
Submission to tyrants in Rome;
The throne and the altar have ever
Combined to despoil the home,
But the home is the heaven to live for,
And Love is the God sublime
Who paints in tints of glory,
Upon the wings of Time
This legend, grand and simple,
And true as eternal Right—
"No Justice e'er came from Jury,
Whose verdict was based on might!"
As high above earth as is heaven;
As high as the stars above
The Church, the chapel, the altar;
Is the home whose God is Love.
APPENDIX
Appendix A.
1. "For a species increases or decreases in numbers, widens or contracts its habitat, migrates or remains stationary, continues an old mode of life or falls into a new one, under the combined influence of its intrinsic nature and the environing actions, inorganic and organic.
"Beginning with the extrinsic factors, we see that from the outset several kinds of them are variously operative. They need but barely ennumerating. We have climate, hot, cold, or temperate, moist or dry, constant or variable. We have surface, much or little of which is available, and the available part of which is fertile in greater or less degree; and we have configuration of surface, as uniform or multiform.... On these sets of conditions, inorganic and organic, characterizing the environment, primarily depends the possibility of social evolution."—Spencer, "Principles of Sociology," vol. 1, p. 10.
2. "These considerations clearly prove that of the two primary causes of civilization, the fertility of the soil is the one which in the ancient world exercised most influence. But in European civilization, the other great cause, that is to say, climate, has been the most powerful.