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CHAPTER IV--_The Ethics of Elfland_
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Wells.
Many moralists have in an exaggerated way represented the earth as wicked.

But Mr.Wells and his school made the heavens wicked.

We should lift up our eyes to the stars from whence would come our ruin.
But the expansion of which I speak was much more evil than all this.

I have remarked that the materialist, like the madman, is in prison; in the prison of one thought.

These people seemed to think it singularly inspiring to keep on saying that the prison was very large.


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