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CONTENTS

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TANGENTIAL VIEWS

Some Privations of the Coming Man
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Civilization of the Monkey 32

The Socialist — What He is, and Why 37

George the Made-over 48

John Smith's Ancestors 53

The Moon in Letters 58

Columbus 68

The Religion of the Table 76

Revision Downward 79

The Art of Controversy 83

In the Infancy of "Trusts" 91

Poverty, Crime and Vice 100

Decadence of the American Foot 112

The Clothing of Ghosts 117

Some Aspects of Education 121

The Reign of the Ring 130

Fin de Siecle 138

Timothy H. Rearden 142

The Passing of the Horse 147

Newspapers 151

A Benign Invention 161

Actors and Acting 169

The Value of Truth 179

Symbols and Fetishes 185

Did We Eat One Another? 192

The Bacillus of Crime 194