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cents per year. It is under the control of Brother Zech, andproposes following the same lines of truth that the TOWER hasall along pursued, pointing out the way of the cross-- theransom--as the only way to God, to everlasting life and joys.We bid the Harvest Sickle God speed: as the successor of theGerman Tower, may it be still more successful in turning manyto righteousness and the Truth and Love and Grace of our God--out of darkness into his marvelous light.Address all orders for the Sickle to-- THE SICKLEPUBLICATION SOCIETY, NO. 23 ADAMS STREET,ALLEGHENY, PA.====================R1162 : page 1VIEW FROM THE TOWER.KNOWLEDGE INCREASED AND ITS RESULTS.--CONTINUED FROM OCTOBER.--On the other hand, it is well to remember that in our presentimperfect condition, all, no matter how honest, or how anxiousfor the truth, are liable to fall into erroneous views, and to seeonly one side of a subject. We have been looking at the falsity ofthat view which would make a few men, and not because ofspecial mental or physical qualification, rulers and masters,landlords and kings over others because of a supposedbirthright. Let us now notice the other side of the question,which we will introduce by what to Americans will seem, at firstglance, an astonishing statement, viz., that all men are not bornfree and equal.No one can dispute that the many more or less bound byignorance and superstition are far from full freedom. And noman can look about him, thoughtfully, and not admit that thecommon view, that all men are equal, is a gross error. All menhave not an equal amount of physical strength. So far from allbeing equal, it might be said that no two men are exact equals.Nor can it be said that men are equal in the sense of the qualitiesof one being an offset or equivalent to the different qualities ofanother. As a matter of fact, brain and muscle are not separateand independent; some have very little of either power andhence are very far from the equals of those who haveconsiderable of either or of both.If we could suppose two men, one all physical power and theother all brain power, we could not class them as equals; for theformer certainly is far inferior to the latter. The lower animalshave muscle; and machinery, steam and electricity, under braindirection, can do much and sometimes more than muscle can do.