Dr. Stiggins:
vention that it will contain nothing that is beyond all question corrupting to young people, and so it is bought carelessly and suffered to lie about our rooms within reach of all, both young and old. I wonder whether the author of these articles ever meditates upon the number of young lives he must have ruined, whether he gloats over the thought of the seeds of madness and delusion that he has planted in the hearts of the little ones. Has he ever thought, as he counts his gold, of the little children who cower with horror in the dark, as they recall his tales of hauntings; of the young lives which are growing up hopelessly astray, their attention and their energies misdirected, and misdirected by him, from the safe and sunny highway into the dark and pestilent dungeons beneath the house of man; of the young men and women, starting on life's journey, who have been lured by him into the obscene thickets of madness and delusion and terror, into those unsavoury caves where half-forgotten superstitions still lurk, ready to claim their victims? A
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