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been experimenting with this particular task for the last three years. He has written a work which he calls an “ Out line of History” , containing some 1,100 pages, and which sells for $10.50, which although he admits it is most faulty and inaccurate DEMONSTRATES THE POS SIBILITY of but of'our slow, upward struggle from the primordial germ,— “ of the changing, climates, of the coming and going of great oras and faunas, of mighty races of living things, until out of the vast, slow process, our own kind emerged.” And we need a Bible that will not coniine itself, as our Bible does largely, to the record of one race, but that wili give us a UNIVERSAL HISTORY of man. It will contain some further features. It must contain some rules of health. It must contain some precepts about sex ual morality; it must deal with the problems of property and trade and labor. It must answer the questions: “ Is it an offense to gamble? Is it an of fense to speculate? Is it an offense to hoard fertile fields and uncultivate them? Is it an offense to use your in vested money merely to live pleasantly without working? Is it an offense to spend your money on yourself, and re fuse your wife more than bare neces sities? Is it an offense to spend ex- ’ orbitant sums that might otherwise go into reproductive investments, to gratify the whims and vanities of your wife?” Since Mr. Wells cannot find answers to such questions as these within the covers of this old Bible, we must have a new one. He has no hesitation in saying that a new Bible can be produced. It is quite possible to get together a committee of men which could produce a new Bible to supersede the old. Wonderful things, he reminds us, have been produced by committees, such as the Magna Charta of England, and the Declaration of Independence of the United States, and the Prayer Book of the English Church! Could not a com mittee of English-speaking men prepare a Bible that would become the universal book of the world? . And surprise of surprises! Mr. Wells goes on to tell us that he himself has
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