is ever allied with the spiritual, the noble, the pure; and is the unmistakable of all faculties of the mind. Conscience can never be obliterated. It becomes latent, but may at some fortuitous moment be rekindled. Conscience, like all mental qualities, is subject to growth. The conscience of the savage man arrives at moral conclusions, which are imperfect and subject to constant revision. Their results of conscience are not of final importance. They arrive at moral conclusions which are imperfect. When conscience becomes strong, the mind will be serene, and happiness be unalloyed. IMPERSONAL IDEAS ARE BORN OF FREE AND LOFTY MINDS. He is on the mountain who has most of this century in him. That truth which has just developed itself to the world is the truth most needed. The divine resides in the new; the profound apprehension of the present is genius which makes the past forgotten. All minds of a reflective character have moments of inspiration-flashes of insight; these are the spiritual riches sent down from heaven to the enlarged apprehension. Earth can forge no chains whereby to fetter human thought. Only disuse makes one inert, slow, unadaptive. It is easy to get into grooves of habit, and harder to get out and move on new lines of thought to nobler aims and issues. We gravitate earthward, unless arrested in our descent and held by the force of some superior attraction. The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate. 'Tis a vile life that, like a stagnant pool, Lies stagnant in the round of personal loves, All real goodness is based on active qualities, and has a fiber of self-denial and determination. All events should be seized with avidity, and promptly advantaged. What is called good fortune, is the result of good judgment, supported by a stout heart and a ready hand. A fact accomplished, whether perfect or imperfect, improves in character with every revolution of this little world around the sun. Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads take the best places. The empire of this world belongs to force or power. This is a question of stomach, of constitution; an affair of presence of mind, of attitude, of aplomb. Happiness and good depend upon the energetic use of body and mind. The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. But authority is only conceded when great ability and great fairness is recognized. Some persons are constituted by nature or formed by circumstances so as to have the habit of attending to the interests of self with singular exactitude, and having no real personal ascendency, and habitual feelings for others, are not qualified to exert easy rule. absorbing, despotic selfishness can never be influential, and may bring even genius, power and supremacy to naught. The spirit's battles are fought through power. To conquer others we must captivate their affections, and to address them well they must be loved much. It is undeniably plain that the more men increase in knowledge and reason, the more do they acquire ability and character. The manifestation of power must be accordant. A convinced understanding speaks as one having authority. We should feel and acknowledge our indebtedness to all men who have moved our life through their spiritual, practical and formulative power. Head and heart should sustain an amicable relation. Success in life depends less upon a man's talents than the force of his character; and what is better, is a good influence over others; and, an active consciousness in one's self of all the best emotions which one's character is able to compass. Culture will do much to give control over the feelings. The superior portion of any organism is invariably positive to the dependent parts and functions which are negative and consequently to be controlled by a positive power. My spirit should keep from harm the soul of my brother who may be encased in bad circumstances, and moved by a propulsive temperament. Every soul waits for some magic power to awaken the pent-up spirit and set it free. Souls are blessings to themselves and the world only as we understand the temperament in which we find them. Thou must be true thyself if thou the truth would teach; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed. MAN IS DESTINED TO BE MASTER OF THE GLOBE. Science establishes the fact that there has been a co-relation between the organic and inorganic progress upon our planet. Human nature, both physically and mentally, is essentially swayed by the constitution and temperature of the common respirable air. The subtleness and extent of this aerial influence upon man's bodily powers, upon his intellectual achievements in the arts and sciences, upon his feelings and disposition as a social being, upon his religious developments and governmental systems, almost transcends belief. In the torrid belt, as in the two frigid zones, nature and humanity are alike arrested and held in check. Supreme indifference to the voice of every energetic passion in the extreme hot, and incapability of evolving any powerful mental power in the extreme cold, result in bringing together the two extremes, from which instinctively the majority of mankind naturally travel toward the delightful temperature and inspiring electricities of the middle zone. The philosophy of this fact is as a fundamental law of nature, that between two extremes invariably grow the grandest perfections; and the science of it is that the respirable air, compounded of oxygen and nitrogen, as chemistry now teaches, is really a reservoir and a viaduct for the reception and introduction into man's body and mind, of the electricities and spiritualities of both heaven and earth. The sun's influences in the temperate zones combine with the inherent principles of life in the globe. Temperature is another name for motion, and respirable air is another name for life. These products of motion and life, in both mankind and animals, are deficient and exceedingly imperfect in both the torrid and frigid zones. Hence in these two opposite sides, or extreme ends, of our globe, nature is arrested; and less than one-third of the earth's surface is consequently congenial and favorable to great human and natural developments. Government is influenced by religion; religion is modified by society; society is swayed by climate; climate is greatly affected by moisture; moisture is a product of waters, slopes, valleys and mountain ranges; but scientific discoveries will impart a correct knowledge of aerial currents and temperatures, and eventually control the production and distribution of rain, snow, electricity, and the principalities and powers of the air; so that, in the reflex action of mankind on the planet and the elements, it would be no longer true to say that man is influenced by his geographical and climatic circumstances, for then man's heel will crush the head of physical conditions. MAN WAS NOT MADE TO DRUDGE IN UNENDING TOIL. This world is not a cell, but a palace, and God meant His children should tread its floors in royal attire, adorned with the most splendid accomplishments they can put on, to enjoy the beauty and glory with which every apartment is crowded, and the whole is roofed in. Man needs constant refreshment in order to labor most and best. The spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in the body without some recreating intermission of labor and serious things. Nature is a sanative. The landscape is a refining and sobering and power, and the best eyes enjoy it the most. What mean all the joys and gladness of nature? The social, moral and intellectual faculties should be attuned one to the other, and all to the universal constitution of things. We are not ascetics. This earth is not a cave for men to burrow in, but an Eden, covered with all conceivable good for human enjoyment and use, for human growth and perfection. God has thrown into the world not only the implements of a workshop, but the bright colors of a festive day. Under all conditions of life, true philosophy teaches the beauty of cheerfulness and the necessity of spontaneity. The arts require idle, delicate minds, employing their long periods of leisure in harmoniously arranging, with enjoyment, forms, colors and sounds. The finest workers, in all branches, are those who enjoy a periodical repose. But, since the modern man wants to move as fast as the clouds, the fine arts are considerably neglected. Now, saw-mills grate in every forest nook, Now, spindles hum beside each mountain brook; |