Amazon.com description: Product Description: Excerpt: ...  Countless and vehement, the sons of God,   Our brethren! Like a cloud that travels on,   Steam'd up from Cairo's swamps of pestilence,   Even so, my countrymen! have we gone forth   And borne to distant tribes slavery and pangs,   And, deadlier far, our vices, whose deep taint   With slow perdition murders the whole man,   His body and his soul! Meanwhile, at home,   All individual dignity and power   Engulf'd in Courts, Committees, Institutions,   Associations and Societies,   A vain, speech-mouthing, speech-reporting Guild,   One Benefit-Club for mutual flattery,   We have drunk up, demure as at a grace,   Pollutions from the brimming cup of wealth;   Contemptuous of all honourable rule,   Yet bartering freedom and the poor man's life   For gold, as at a market! The sweet words   Of Christian promise, words that even yet   Might stem destruction, were they wisely preached,   Are muttered o'er by men, whose tones proclaim   How flat and wearisome they feel their trade:   Rank scoffers some, but most too indolent   To deem them falsehoods or to know their truth.   Oh! blasphemous! the book of life is made   A superstitious instrument, on which   We gabble o'er the oaths we mean to break;   For all must swear-all and in every place,   College and wharf, council and justice-court;   All, all must swear, the briber and the bribed,    Merchant and lawyer, senator and priest,   The rich, the poor, the old man and the young;   All, all make up one scheme of perjury,   That faith doth reel; the very name of God   Sounds like a juggler's charm; and, bold with joy,   Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place,   (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism,   Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,   Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close,   And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven,   Cries out, "Where is it?"   Thankless too for peace,   (Peace long preserved...