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As in our lives, so in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue their minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.—Pliny.

It is sometimes urged that to deny the immortality of the soul is to reduce man to the level of the beast,but it is forgotten that mankind are not quite on a level. Take the savage with lower jaw projecting far in advance, and compare him with Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, or Voltaire. TaKe the Papuan and Plato, Esquimaux and Confucius, and then ask whether it is possible to contend that all human beings have equal souls." Has Man a Soul? "by 0. Bradlaugh.

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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 May 1884, Page 4

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Untitled Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 May 1884, Page 4

Untitled Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 May 1884, Page 4