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The great Infidel-Philosopher Herbert Spencer sees the trouble coming and helps fulfil our Lord’s prediction, Luke 21:26. He says:—

“Since I began to write there has been a clear reaction against individual liberty. We are certainly tending toward State Socialism, which will be a worse form of tyranny than that of any government now recognized in civilization. At present the State is absorbing the individual activity of men. It is intermeddling in all manner of ways in what should be private enterprise. Gradually the State will usurp the functions of private enterprise to such an extent that the people will one day awake to it; but it will be long before they will make an effective resistance. I can not but think that the trouble will be severe—something terrible to contemplate; but I do not begin to set a date for the catastrophe, or to anticipate its horrors.”

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— August 1, 1892 —