University of Virginia Library

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Preface

“Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they
were real: perhaps they are.”

“Nature, as we know her, is no saint. The lights of the Church,
the Ascetics, Gentoos, and corn-eaters, she does not distinguish by
any favor. She comes eating and drinking and sinning. Her darlings—the
great, the strong, the beautiful—are not children of our
law; do not come out of the Sunday-School, nor weigh their food,
nor punctually keep the Commandments.”