“Das Leben ist der Güter höchstes nicht; Der Uebel grösstes aber ist die Schuld.” My last little book, _Lectures on the Duties of Women_, was addressed principally to the young of my own sex. The present volume is intended for my contemporaries who are daily brought face to face with some of the darker problems of the time, or are led by their advancing years to ponder ever more earnestly on the mystery of the great transition. In these various papers,--some new, some already published in different periodicals,--I have striven to meet fairly the questions whether the denial of God and immortality be indeed (as Agnostics and Comtists are wont to boast) a “magnanimous” creed, whether life be …
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