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it will perhaps be somewhhat difficult for the men and women of a later day to understand jesse bentley. in the last fifty years a vast change has taken place in the lives of our people. a revolution has in fact taken place. the coming of industrialism, attended by all the roar and rattle of affairs, the shrill cries of millions of new voives that have come among us from overseas, the going and coming of trains. ect