THE WEALTH MAKERS.
March 28, 1895
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The price of silver is rising.
Pauperism is increasing the world
around. '
The police of Victoria, 1$. C, refuse to
allow the ladies to appear on their bicycles
in bloomers.
All mankind could be happy were it
ntit for man's inhumanity.
"The time for the singing of birds is
come." God is not dead. lie cares for
the sparrows.
We must suffer together until we are
content to love and serve, one another.
The race is one, whether it wills to be or
not.
Senator Sprecher is receiving praiso
from all sides for his remarkably strong
speech he made last week, Thursday,
against the Oxnard Sugar bounty bill.
There seems to be agoneral agreement
on the part of good citizens that Frank
Graham is not a man to trust, or that
would reflect credit on the city as its
mayor.
Th thirsty of eoul eoon learn to know
The moistureless froth of the social show;
The vulgar sham of the pompous feast.
Where the heaviest parse Is the highest priest.
John Boyle O'Reilly. '
The Christian collectivist would take
away no liberty from the individual that
would not be returned to him a hundred
fold in the liberty which association
would give. Herron.
There is upon eurth room for all; and
if each would serve as much as he de"
mands to be served, there would be
enough to satisfy the needs of all, enough
to cultivate and gratify all right tastes
and aspirations.
Ret. Charles E.Lee, of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, has invented an individual
communion service and had it patented.
A monopoly charge for the use of the
Lord's cup, or rather cups! And the
churches are going to adopt it!
W. A. Howard of Liucoln has publish
ed one of the finest gotten up books con
taining biographical sketches of the pre
sent state officers and members of the
legislature that we ever saw. It is on the
finest paper, the illustrations show up
perfectly and the binding is very neat.
The mechanical work was done by Jacob
North & Co., In cloth and gold, $1.00
per copy. Morocco binding $2,00. Send
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Neb.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company
will on April 1st reduce telephone rentals
in towns outside of Milwaukee 25 per
cent. Toll rates will also be given a big
slash. The same reduction it is said will
be made in other states. The cut is the
result of the recent supreme court de
cisions, and is to prevent the formation
of new local telephone companies or mu
nicipal plants. With costly plants in the
big cities they can eep .the monopoly
even without reducing rates.
8PEAKIN9 Of LOG EOLLIHQ
Fpenkingof log-rolling, togetridof the
alleged too heavy (?) load of the Popu
list party, and the opinions expressed by
A and B at the banquet that it aigbt be
wise for us to throw off jwrhaps every
log except one everything except silver
and arrange a demo-pop, ox-mule
fusion team to take it, or a part of it, to
the top of the hill, leads us to remark,
very quietly, that the men who under
take to break up and cast aside the Om
aha platform will raise u storm, will be
disturbers of harmony, and may only
succeed in bringing distrust and political
destruction upon themselves. If they do
not like Populist principles why are they
with us? ' If they do like them why set
them aside, why cut away the ground we
stand on and so separate us7 Can it be
boiieved we have professed principles we
will turn our backs to, or demanded
more than is just and necessary?
The Populist party is not stalled. It
added to its team over a half million
voters last year, and it will not stop for
any consideration.
The load-of-logs simile does not illus
trate the situation at all. We are not at
the foot of the hill. We are not slipping
backward. The principles we advocate
and the demands that necessarily spring
from them are not our load, but our
power. They are the steam engine that
draws the train, They have drawn us,
and must draw all honest and intelligent
citizens to join the two million voters
that are now aboard.
Dropping figures of speech let us have
a little plain dispassionate discussion of
'he ideas advanced by Senator Allen and
Mr. Bryan, which they illustrated by the
usloadiug of logs and the teura-spliciug
example. The Omaha platform is not
perfect. Nevertheless it is the grandest
political platform ever made. Its unim
portant superficial Inconsistencies may
be pointed out as we increase in intelli
gence, and improvements made in it.
But were we tocut off the transportation
demand it would remove nearly a third
of its power. Were we to set aside the
laud plank it would take another third
of our strength. And were we to give up
our demand for two per cent money and
government banks, and ask only for sil
ver and greenbacks merely paid out, as
Congress might enact, it would leqve us
in the state Milton's Satan was in when
he fell into hell completely drained of
power.
The men who wish to cut away the
socialistic planks of our platform the
principal demands and fuse with silver
Democrats, dividing the offices, consider
themselves "practical" politicians. But
in a reform movement these self-styled
"practical" people are the most impracti
cal possible. The Populist party was
created by the principles expressed at our
national convention, July 4th, 1892.
We have been drawn together by the
principles and demands of the platform
then made. They are our glory and
strength. They must and shall be de
fended. We can't trade any of them off
for votes. We can't tie ourselves up
with the putrid carcass of Democracy;
nor with an alleged purified portion of
it that is still organically connected with
its moral rottennesss. If there is no es
sential difference between the demands of
the Bryan-led Democrats and the de
mands of the Populists why do they re
fuse to be Populists? We say there is, a
wide difference. Bryan agreed with Sen
ator Allen at the banquet that it would
be well to splice teams, to fuse, and sug
gested that in '90 it would be our turn
to help the Democrats. Now, brethren
what do you say to that? ,
Shall we cut down our platform to
please the leaders of Democracy, and
dicker with Brya- for the support of
Democrats, trading votes for votes, and
so drive back all Republicans as well as
Democrats who would come to us and
stay if we continue to be a party of un
bending principle? Is that practical
politics?
TEE BIOH AND POOR
While a dinner was being given to ex-
Governor Flower of New York at the
Hotel Waldorf, one night recently by the
members of his old staff, where the table
was decorated with $1,500 'worth of
flowers and the menu cards were covered
with lizard skins and decorated with
gold, in the center of which were the
great man's initials, four deaths from
starvation in the streets of the big me
tropolis were recorded for the very same
night. Yet the people who are striving
to even down and even up this condition
of things are looked upon as only
"cranks" in the community, and the ex
hibitions of luxurious dissipation and
the "dance of death" move on apace.
This government too is still known as a
republic, and sung as of ' the land oi tue
free and the home of the brave;" and the
fellows who read their bill of fare from
lizard skin encased golden-centered cards
are called "democrats." Oh Lord! what
a perverted definition of that sacred
word! Massachusetts Populist, March
8th.
The above tells the whole story. Dem
ocrats! Libertyl A free country!
Christians! What lies are in these
words!
All around ns is unutterable misery,
Three-fourths of the people are under
tension. Dread of want and actual want
are putting a fearful strain upon the
mosses. And the classes are feasting and
dancing and extending, by means of mo
nopoly plunder, their power and oppres
sion.
And the real preachers of righteousness
are few and unrecognized. They have
not been licensed or ordained, and are
therefore despised by the churches. Or if
here and there one stands who bears the
reverend title, he is reckoned an enemy
of the church and is called an anarchist.
becnaae he preaches "the gowjH-1 to the
poor" and the law to the rich. Vet must
the world be saved by preaching, by
proclaiming the law of God and denoun
cing the sin of selfishness. "Babylon,"
the stronghold of covetousness, whose
world-wide competition markets have
made the buyers and seller of labor
rich and raised up monopoly kings that
rule and revel, must fall. "For her sins
have reached unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her iniquities."
WEEN THERE IS NO PEACE
Under the head of Profitless Debates
the Outlook of New York thinks itnnfor.
tunate that the hottest debates in the
Church take place on the mostunimport
ant topics.
The Congregatioualists were divided
six years and their pulpits and press were
heated over the question whether a man
should be allowed to preach who thought
it possible or probable that the heathen
who never heard the gospel here might
hear it hereafter, and be saved. . Since
then the Presbyterians have exhausted
their energies and passions in a disagree
ment among themselves over the ques
tion whether, in case theoriginal manu.
scripts could be discovered, they would
be found free from error. And now the
Episcopal church is plunged in a debate
over the question whether Christ was
born of a virgin miraculously, or in law
ful wedlock.
Why does not the Church take up. the
unsettled questions of righteousness, the
perfect moral standard? A discussion ol
such questions would purify it, would
make it a mighty power if it succeeded in
getting itself out of darkness and had
faith to go forward in obedience.
Suppose the church should take up the
usury question, as it is known in Scrip
ture. . By so doing it would get at the
dividing line between good and evil, be
tween justice and injustice. But it ia
afraid of that question. Why, its very
schools are built, endowed, and its
preachers educated with usury. (Since
Calvin's time it has been called interest,
so as not to awaken and trouble the
conscience.) Its members are usurers
for the most part, though few of them
are aware of it. It would make a dread
ful disturbance to tear open this tender
sore and probe the evil to its depths.
And faithful preaching on this subject
would be sure to divide every church in
the world. ( '
Suppose the church should lift up the
standard of equalizinglove "Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself" and insist
that it be practiced every day in the
week, displacing competition. Why it
would "turn the world upside down,"
and the church also, as it is now consti
tuted. It would not answer to preach
that men must practice this law to be
saved from the evils of selfishness. It
would make the preachers unpopular.
It would break up the churches. Wait
till the millennium comes, and then it
will be safe and probably pay to love one
another. God ought to have known
that a man can't love his neighbor as
himself in business, in the everyday
practical affairs of life.
Suppose the church should raise the
question of its part, its work, in making
the lion lie down with the lamb, instead
of looking to the clouds for power to
suddenly manifest itself and frighten the
monopolists who are eating up God's
children. But no; it would not answer,
for the Lord would not again send an
angel to shut the lion's mouths, and if
the preachers attacked them they would
be the first to be eaten, don't you see?
'Woe unto the foolish prophets
preachers, that follow their own spirit,
and have seen nothing! Ye have not
gone up into the gaps, neither made up
the hedge for the house of Israel to stand
in the battle in the day of the Lord.
Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that
see vanity, and that divine lies: they
shall not be in the assembly of My people
neither shall they be written in the writ
ing of the house of Israel, neither shall
they enter into the land of Israel the
new earth and heaven. Because, even
because they have seduced my people,
saying, Peace; and there was no peace, a
9M
COMPARING THEIR IMPORTANCE
If you want our individual judgment of
the relative importance of the three great
questions contained in the Omaha plat
form it will be as follows:
The land monopoly is the greatest und
worst of all. Over half the people (52
percent by thelast census) in this country
todav are landless, homeless. The rent
that is paid for farms to cultivate and
for lots to live and do business on meas
ures the magnitude of the laud mono
poly. Few realize how fast it is growing
or how steadily and rapidly the land of
the people is being gathered intovthe
hands of the rich minority.
The transportation questions come
next in importance, all goods exchanged
that must be transported having to pay
monopoly charges to the railroad kings,
The agricultural class and the people in
the cities are all under tribute to the
monopolists of transportation.
The money question is the interest
question. The problem is to reduce the
interest chasges until they represent only
the economic labor cost of investigating
securities and the making out and safe
keeping the papers. The money ques
tion is as great as the drain of interest
therefore it is of vast importance. Never
theless, the land and transportation
questions are greater; their drain (that
of each, in fact) is greater. However, the
money question can be most easily
acted on, and will therefore receive first
attention when the Populist party comes
into power. ,
POSTAL CARD 0PI8I0N3 ASKED
Resolved: First, That we declareour nn-
alterableadhesion to the principles of the
Omaha platform of 1892.
Resolved; Second. That the Populist
party has a mission of it own, and its
mission is not the reformation of either
of the old parties.
Resolved; Third, That we call upon the
good men of all parties to abandon both
the hopeless task of attempting the re
formation of an old party, and the
chimerical one of building up a new one
upon a singleincidental issue.
Resolved; Fourth, That in our judg
ment, only Populists should be placed
on guard.
Resolved; Fifth, That we are opposed
to fusion in all its modes and tenses.
The above resolutions were introduced
by Judge Wilbur F. Bryant before the
Populist State Central Committee of Ne
braska. There was a sixth resolution
appended which was open to criticism,
but it was dropped or withdrawn, so we
do not here give it. We however wish to
hear from our people throughout the
state on the above resolutions. Please
write us whether or not they accord
with your individual views aud political
judgment. We address this request to
all earnest wide-awake Populists.
The above resolutions were supported
by J. V, Wolfe, W.F. Bryant, and others;
and they were opposed by W. A. Mc"
Keighan, Mr. Morrissey of Chadron and
others.
Our readers do not need to be told
what we think of them. Weurgethatevery
one who has a judgment of his own on
the policy expressed in these resolutions
write it to us, that we may know the
mind of the party. Brief postal card
opinions preferred.
Prof. Herron in his new book says:
"As it is now organized, or rather in its
present state of disorganization ,our rail
way system is a greater menace to the
integrity and perpetuity of the nation
than was ever the institution of slavery;
it is the strongest enemy of society and
the chief danger of anarchy; and it has
become such through the manipulation
of legislatures and the protection of
courts. The command and administra
tion of the railway system by law is the
most immediate national problem which
demands our legislative and judicial so
lution. In the unlimited responsibility
of the people for the protection of rail
way and other corporate properties,
with the almost absolute irresponsibility
of these corporations to the public, our
laws permit what is immeasurably more
vicious and destructive to liberty than
taxation without representation. The
people of our nation will not, and ought
not, much longer maintain what are
practically public corporations privately
owned with no responsibility for the pub
lic welfare, no accountability to the pub
lic will, and virtually not amenable to
public justice, yet requiring the national
courts for their operation, and the na
tional army for their protection. If the
people must be responsible for the opera
tion of these properties, and their courts
and army used for this end, while there is
no way;, by which the courts and army
can be used to protect the people from
corporate oppression and exploitation,
then the people should not only own and
operate the properties for which they are
responsible at such a cost, but should
reorganize and reconstitute the laws of
the land in the interests of humanity and
of the nation."
Indiana challenges the world to show
a lot of more venal, corrupt and incom
petent political frauds than composed
the legislature which died a dogs death
here last Monday. This is a sweepstakes
offer and takes in every ' state in the
American union. If any Populist thinks
he has an aggregation of asses in his
state that will show against us, let him
trot out his animals. We want to enter
ours in the slow mule race of ''Republican
reform" up to date, or heaved abroad by
the tidal wave of ley.
Don't gamble on it, Matthews. Old
party legislators are generally of the
same breed, if not the same litter. The
rep-dem. dog fight at the wind-up is all
you have to brag about.
"Washington! thou shouldst be living at this
hour!
America hath need of thee: she Is a fen
Ol stagnate waters; altar, sword and pes,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower ,
Have forfeited their Washlngtonlan dower
Of Inward happiness. We are eel fish men;
Obi raise us op, return to us again.
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power."
Anarchy is lifting its frightful head all
over the land, and nowhere is its appear
ance so significant and alarming as
where it embodied itself in the Indiana
leeislature. with oaths and threats of
pistols and slung shots, with blows and
breaking of chairs and benches and doors
and ribs, resisting the right of the execu
tive to veto a bill by the lawless lawmak
ers passed. Another recent example of
significant anarchy was the battle in a
Roman Catholic church in Omaha, in
which clubs, revolvers, knives, and stones
were used and several were wounded
The priest himself fired several shots at
the sheep of his flock.
Ex-Skcretary George S. Boutwell,
Grant's secretary of the treasury a few
days ago said: "Before two years have
passed, silver will control this country."
The opinion is the more significant be
cause Mr. Boutwell is known not to be
free silver man.
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A DISGRACE TO NEBRASKA
The Republican lawmakers of this
State are the most contemptible and
foolishly partisan body that ever dis
graced Nebraska. They are either abso
lutely destitute of political sense, or they
know that this is their last chance, and
so are doing their worst. The senate
has passed a bill to take the appoint
ment of dil inspector out of the govern
or's bands, a purely partisan bill, and a
gratuitous insult to Governor Holcomb.
Had it been Tom Majors in the guberna
torial chair the bill would never have
been thought of. This was a slap on one
cheek; the other was hit with the bill
which they have passed to take the ap
pointment of the Omaha fire and police
commission out of the governor's hands.
The Republican majority are anar
chists. They have disregarded and
trampled on the law which limits the
number of employes of the legislature, by
brute force of numbers pushing aside the
Populist opposition. They have, by
usually suspending the rules in the mat
ter of reading the minutes, left a way
open to fix over aud politically doctor
the journals of the house aud senate.
They have done what the corporations
dictated in nota few important bills; and
what they have not done for the people
the people will also remember. The Re
publican party is dead in this state, and
the people will get rid of the remains in
95 and '96.
NOT A POET OP TEE PEOPLE
James Whitcomb Riley is the sort of poet
the powers that be are pleased with. He
is not the kind of man Whittier was. He
preaches contentment instead of justice;
as the following lines show:
It's nachural enough, I goes
When some gets more and some gets less,
Fer them that's on the slimest side
To claim It ain't a fair divide,
And I've knoned some to lay In wait
And get up soon and set up late
To ketch some fellow they would hat
Fer groin at a faster gait.
The signs is bad when folks commence
A-flnding fault with Providence
And balkln 'cause the world don't shake
At cv'ry prancin step they take.
Mo man Is great till be can see
How less than little he would be
Ef stripped to self, and stark and bar
He bung his sign out everywhere
My doctrin' 1 sto lay aside
Contentions and be satisfied;
Jest do your best, and praise or blame
That tollers that counts Jest the same.
I've alius noticed great success
Is mixed with trouble more or less,
And it's the man who does the best
That gits more kicks than all the res.
James Whitcomb Riley.
The assumption here is that there is no
injustice in distribution, that what each
gets is what he produces, bo it more or
less. The workers should not strike for
more wages, but cultivate contentment.
If you can't be satisfied anyt other way
observe that the successful have trouble,
the rich are unhappy. Therefore don't
kick them.
All this sounds old, old, old. And it is
hateful reading in this dreadful time. A
poet must have a heart that bleeds for the
suffering, the oppressed, those who have
no helper. His verse will live if he loves
humanity, if his heart is as Nature's
heart.
How many there are who have been
hanging on by their eyelids until nerves
can scarce stand the tension, until faith
fails and the moral fibre weakens and the
work of degradation sets in. O, terrible
is the sin of society, which fences up the
natural opportunities and stands guard
at the factory doors and mine entrances,
and leaves men with no rights in the
earth, or in the laws. They fear to meet
the landlord, the grocer, the last friend
they could borrow of. They writhe in
inward agony and feel disgraced as their
pride considers poverty and shame,
shame that yet belongs to others who
cut them off from theirheavenly Father's
gifts. And they must bear it silently
while loved ones want, and perhaps beg.
In the comptroller's report of banking
for 1894 we find that the banks,
trnst companies and savings banks had
on deposit $4,715,574,368, aud had
loaned out $4,125,503,251. More than
three times all the money out that is al
lowed to circulate. Each dollar there
fore must have been loaned three times.
The banks thus collect at least three in
terest charges, say twenty-five per cent,
on each dollar that they allow to circu
late. Government banks would save all
this to the people, and would not allow
the circulation to be congested and check
the wheels of trade and industry through
interest charges.
Rev. T. H. Malone of Denver, speak
ing on "The Catholic Church and the
Single Tax" at Orpheus hall, Chicago,
amonir other things is reported as Speak
ing thus:
"And let me say now, and I say it
knowing that I may be greeted with
the cry of 'Anarchy,' or 'Alarmist,' that
while our 5 million unemployed sit to
night, lmldino-nut the hand of supplica
tion, they will some day rise, and the
supplicant's hand will become that oi
the avenger, and will strike down the op
rrPHsnr. And vet there are idle lands
lvina: within a stone's throw of the
crowded tenements."
TnE banquet in honor of Senator Allen
last week at the Lindell was a success in
point of numbers, every seat in the large
dining hall being taken; the toasts were
happily prepared, by J. V. Wolfe, and
interestingly and wittily responded to;
the menu was all that an epicurean could
desire, and the music, by Prof. Frank's
orchestra, was pronounced excellent.
THE WARDE88HIP QUESTION
We understand that there is a great ef
fort being made to induce the governor
to appoint a Democrat warden of the
penitentiary. Ia our opinion there can
be urged no good reason lor so doing,
and we can not believe Governor Hol
comb will seriously think of such a thing
The Populist party would receive an in
jury from which it would be hard to re
cover if our honored governor in any of
his appointments appeared to be paying
to the Democrats debts contracted be
fore election. The appointment of a Dem
ocrat to the important office of warden
of the penitentiary would indicate that
an obligation was being met, u pre-election
contract or understanding carried
out; and it would damage our reputation
for honesty irremediably, even if not true.
But it would show undeniably that the
governor recognized an obligation, and
it would disgust and dishearten the best
element, nf nnr rinrtv if his nnnmn tniont.
of a Democrat warden fixed theshame of
a spoils compact or trade upon us as a
party. We may have some few unin
structed, undelegated, unauthorized fool
leaders who, assuming to act for us,
have talked with the Democrats, but the
party is not bound to accept the shame
of such understanding, if there were such.
We trust the governor will use his cus
tomary caution and not appoint a man
known to be a tippler to the wardensbip.
One of the candidates carries too much
liquor in him to be a safe warden. We
want sober men, in all such responsible
places, men who can be safely trusted to
sustain the character and keep up the
good name of the Populist party. And
just here we suggest that a candidate
should not be appointed for geographical
reasons. A man's location does not
make him a fit or necessary selection.
The best men should be selected. Let us
not be governed by the ward politics
plan, which allows location to select and
elect bad or unfit men and excludes the
man who can best serve the public when
ever another man from the same loca
lity wants or is wanted for another place.
We urge the governor to drop the map
of Nebraska and look only at the men
he has to select from.
A VERY NOTABLE BOOK
The Philosophy of Mind, by George
Trumbull Ladd.
This book is a continuation of the
series of works on Pyschology by Dr.
Ladd, and naturally follows his Elements
of Physiological Psychology, and Psy
chology: Descriptive and Explanatory.
X he volume before us is, in many ways
the most important of the series. There
has been a crying need for some one with
sound sense and sound philosophical
ideas, and with sympathy with the
more common people in their desire to
know in a plain way about these ques
tions, to undertake the task of treating
In a speculative manner "certain prob
lems, suggested but not usually discussed
in the course of a thorough empirical
study of mental phenomena." It is a
mistake to suppose that the common
man does not to the best of his ability
think on these questions which are as
broad as life itself, and that his interest
in them is not vital. This must be taken
into consideration: The common man
has no time, neither has he the ability
to make the thorough empirical study of
mental phenomena. He wants conclu
sions, and they must be drawn by one
whorecognizes theintensity of his feeling,
difficulties in his mind, who has his confi
dence and who has the largest, kindliest
notions of the dignity of the human
mind. It is not too much to say, there
fore, that this volume will be eagerly re
ceived as from one who has stepped forth
as the champion of common-sense philo
sophy and metaphysics that shall give
us something besides blank materialism
or being per se, without attribute or
modes of activity.
It is refreshing to see "psychology with
out a soul" or "psychology without
metaphysics" properly dealt with.
Vast harm has already been done by
those who, in their profound investiga
tions to discover the reality or non-reality
of mind, assume to start with the
non-reality and base all arguments on
that assumption. Vast harm has been
done, moreover, by those psychologists
who, with a great flourish of trumpets,
announce "psychology without metaphy
sics ' ana yet employ merapnysics, not
always of the most approved sort, to the
deception and bewilderment of their
readers. Such work finds no favor with
this author and he announces in the Pre
face that he has come forth with a trea
tise on metaphysics and that, too, in the
face of the fact that it is now "the schol
astic 'fad' of blase minds" to denounce
the study of metaphysics altogether.
The author then asserts to begin with
that some metaphysics is necessarily in
volved in any proper study of psychology
aud that, therefore, such metaphysics
ought to be "open and undisguised."
Inconsistences of Mr. Huxley, Prof.
Uoffding, Prof. James and M. Flournoy,
who illustrate the fact that those who
profess to use no metaphysics do not
practice what they preach, are shown
with much keenness. The chapter on
Reality of Mind is a strong one. The
Agnostic position in regard to the im
possibility of reaching reality by know
ledge is shown untenable and the conclu
sion arrived at is: "The peculiar, the
only intelligible and indubitnble reality
which belongs to mind is its being for it
self by actual functioning of self conscious
neos, of recoguitive memory, and of
thought."
The most interesting chapter in the
book is, perhaps, Chapter V on The Con
sciousness of Identity, and So-Called
Double ( Consciousness. Here, too, some
thing "must be borrowed from general
metaphysics." It is of course "salf-same-ness,"
or "identity." All idea of envisage
meut of the self as a beiug per se must
be given up; but so must all such a flow of
the "stream of consciousness" as leaves
nothing permanent by which to judge of
change itself Identity inits lastanalysis
must be conformity to unchanging law;
but law is but the expression for imma
nent idea; and thus "The real identity of
anything consists of this, "that its self
activity manifests itself, in all its differ-
