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MOSES OR DARWIN?

A SCHOOL PROBLEM

FOR

ALL FRIENDS OF TRUTH AND PROGRESS

BY

ARNOLD DODEL, PH. D.,

PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Switzerland; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MICROSCOPIC SOCIETY OF LONDON, ENGLAND; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE FREE

THINKERS' UNION OF GERMANY; ETC., ETC.

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Author of Dodel's Anatomic-Physiological Atlas of Botany for High Schools and Colleges;" "Illustrirtes Pflanzenleben;" and

other Scientific Works.

The Truth-Seeker is the only God-Seeker.-M. J. SAVAGE.

TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRD GERMAN EDITION, WITH PREFACE FOR THE AMERICAN EDITION,

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COMMONWEALTH COMPANY,

28 Lafayette Place,

New York.

A Versified, Annotated, Narrative of his Life and Teachings.

With an Excursus, Containing Citations from Buddha's “Dhammapada, or Path of Virtue." BY E. D. ROOT,

An American Buddhist.

Large, clear type, widely spaced; heavy paper, broad margins; extra cloth, 12mo, 171 pp., $1.00.

The more I learn to know Buddha, the more I admire him, and the sooner all nankind shall have been made acquainted with his doctrines, the better it will be, for he is certainly one of the heroes of humanity.-Dr. Fausböll.

The material which forms the basis of this poem has been obtained from volumes which are inaccessible to the vast majority of readers. The noble and beautiful sayings from Buddha's Path of Virtue will win universal admiration.—Literary Review.

OPINIONS OF LEADING BUDDHISTS, SPIRITUALISTS, AND OTHERS.

This work is very highly valued by many people here, and will prove itself to be a great boon to the English-speaking public.-JOHN HOWAY, N.P.F.T. (a Ceylonese Buddhist).

Favorable opinions of this work has been expressed by the distinguished Oriental scholar J. Wettha Singha, F.B.T.Š., Colombo, Slave Island, Ceylon, and by many other Buddhists. The book has been introduced into Buddhist schools in Ceylon. The Banner of Light, Religio-Philosophical Journal, and many Spiritualist papers and lecturers, have spoken highly of the book.

This descriptive poem is as smooth as Pope, sublime as Byron, sympathetic as Thomson, and as spiritual and humanitarian as Whit tier. Every line is comprehensive, elevating, and inspiring, lifting, and holding up the reader, above the material and evanescent, to the realms and life of the divine and spiritual, and breathing the spirit of Peace on earth, good-will to men."-Prof. J. H. Cook (Spiritualist Lecturer).

The perusal delights me; and I quite wonder how the author could so literally write history in rhyme and rhythm. Since visiting China, Ceylon, and other Buddhist countries, I feel an increased interest in all writings favoring Buddhism. I shall take pleasure in speaking in praise of this work in the press.-Prof. J. M. PEEBLES, M.D. (Spiritualist Lecturer), [Author of "Travels Around the World" ($2); Buddhism and Christianity Face to Face: A Discussion between a Buddhist Priest and an English Clergyman," 25 cts.]

THE MODERN THINKER, NO. 2.

Paper, 8vo, 160 pp.

$1,00

BY THE AUTHOR OF PHILIP MEYER'S SCHEME.

A STORY OF SOCIAL IMPORT.

THIS is a novel and interesting story of a New England manu facturing town. It tells the story of the conversion of a minister from the errors of his social philosophy to a more Christlike view of human needs, and life, and destiny. The means of this slow change of life-long and unquestioned convictions is an old Scotch schoolmaster, who is an open and avowed Socialist. The old Scotch schoolmaster is a reader and a thinker, and his friend, the Presbyterian minister, is a kindly natured man, who has been brought up in the strict faith of his sect, and has never thought of going outside its tenets and dogmas in his christian teaching. How he comes to consider the social question in the light of Christ's teaching is skillfully and interestingly told in a series of dialogues between him and Stewart, the schoolmaster. The labor troubles in the mills in the village are also illustrative of the divergence between the precepts of the christian church and the professions of its teachers and disciples and their prac. tice in every-day conduct, The hardheaded, shrewd but kindly old minister, who has all his life lived according to his stern standard of rectitude, in both thought and conduct, finally comes to believe that christianity as a religion was not intended to be a creedal profession, but a law of life and conduct. He ends by admitting the truth of the old schoolmaster's teaching, that Christ was a Socialist—the first great Socialist, who preached a religion for this world of realities and not for another.

This is a fine, stirring story, and it is imbued with a noble and lofty purpose. It will be a good antidote to such vicious teachings as are contained in "Marcella," and similar apologies for injustice and spoliation of the producing classes by the egotistic idlers.

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Good Edition, Large, Clear Type, 12mo, 357 Pages, Paper, 50 Cents; Cloth, $1,00

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For sale by Booksellers, and News-Stands, or sent Postpaid on receipt of price, by

COMMONWEALTH COMPANY,

28 LAFAYETTE PLACE,

NEW YORK.

I AM BUT ONE.

JUSTICE, NOT CHARITY.

A NATIONALIST POEM.

By HARRISON T. HICKOK.

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"The amount of effort alone is pertinent to the question of desert. All men who do their best do the same. A man's endowments, however godlike, merely fix the measure of his duty."Edward Bellamy.

This is the great ethical pedestal on which mankind have refused to stand, but on which they must finally place their feet or perish. The maxim, "To every man according to his deeds," is a false one, and the world will make no substantial progress till it is abandoned.-H. T. H.

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Thick, Antique, Laid Paper, with Heavy Venetian Covers, 10 Cents.

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