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Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the conduct of life betweenmen and women in popular society, is founded in thedifference established through their unjust educationand dissimilar habits. Inasmuch as men and womenare derived from the same fountain of divine life, arecompounded of identical elements, and have a commondestiny in the grand progressive career of eternity ;therefore they should learn at once, and practically,to make less educational difference on account of sexin their tastes, professions, interests, duties, labors, andemoluments. There is an unfathomable fit of injustice in thatsocial structure which makes labors, rewards, pleas-ures, vices, crimes, and the enactment and enforcementof laws, turn upon the shallow question of sex. Anytheory of life, religion, or government, which un-balances the divine equilibrium of Justice, in effectevolves and confirms a wicked warfare between men 40 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. and women, and should be consigned with the populartheology to the pit of oblivion. It establishes a
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EVERT WIFE, AND ESPECIALLY EVERY MOTHER, IS ENTITLED TO AM HOME(FREE OF ALL DEBTS AND DEMANDS). wicked antagonism between the two sides of thehuman universe. The inculcations of this chapter are easily summedup : Let your boys and girls run out into the beautifulworld, and let them grow as they play together; forvery soon, as men and women, they will together laythe foundations of future families, societies, states, andnations. Babyhood first, then childhood, next youth, andthen, O how quickly, in this whirling world !—comewomanhood and manhood ; lastly, old age, and then—■ MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS. 41 by the revolution of times wheel—a certificate fromearths school-masters, entitling the bearer to a fullCollege-course in some of the many mansions notmade with hands/ Forever let Loves scepter remain in the soft,honest, kiugly right hand of Wisdom. Infinitely fairerand higher will grow the world—less thorny and bit-ter, less cold and desolate, less miserable and unjust,will se

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