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Robert G, Ingersoll was not our ideal man on
   religion, by an means; but he was a great word
   picturer.  When he lectured on "Happiness," he spoke
   the following:       
"I would rather have forty
 acres of land, with a log-
 cabin on it, and the woman
 I love in the cabin--with a
 little, grassy, winding path
 leading down to a spring
 where the water is gurgling
 from the lips of the earth,
 whispering to the white 
 oebbles a perpetual poem-
 with hollyhocks growing
 at the corner of the house,
 and morning-glories bloom-
 ing over the low-lacthced
 door-- with lattice work
 over the window, so that
 the sunlight would fall
 checked on the dimpled
 babe in the cradle, and
 birds, like songs, hovering
 in the summer air, than be
 the clerk of any govern-
 ment on earth."
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