revealed in man's mind; therefore, the harmonial body bears the features of Mother Nature, and the best mental organization presents the image and the likeness of Father God. This harmonial temperament is indicated by a wellproportioned body and harmonious soul, a fair, clear skin, harmonious but impressive features, a steady, composed deportment-being, in its highest perfection, every way beautiful to gaze upon. The brain is uniformly exercised only as it is capable of entertaining ideas in all departments. Most minds are fissured with incapacities in one direction or another-chipped away on this side or that—all are fragmentary. Few minds have learned to reason correctly on any subject.

Perfect sanity shows the mastery among philosophers. Common sense, though strong in some directions, may be weak in others; with the talents of an angel a man may be a fool.

Not to know at large of things remote

From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime Wisdom.

He is the wisest who comprehends his own ignorance and the boundaries of his own capabilities, and learns his possibilities. To derive the full quota of happiness from any part of our nature, that part must blend in harmony with all the rest. Perception and alertness depend upon the power of attention, and this is the result of well-trained faculties and a well-developed nervous tissue.

HOW TO RECONSTRUCT OURSELVES.

Man is destined to become more symmetrically developed. When we come to know ourselves, then we can reconstruct ourselves on an improved plan-correcting our mistakes and unhandsome deviations, moderating excessive development,

supplying deficiencies, molding character, and with that our bodies into symmetry and harmony. It is no struggle for some people to attain perfection, for the gift of nature saves them from the greater part of the difficulty.

The soul will attract and assimilate with itself qualities of congenial substance. So that whatever man earnestly desires, nature performs. An earnest man, with a purpose,

accomplishes what he attempts.

Science is literally undeveloped in the direction of mental activities.

No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasure, or the Fine arts; whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. The momentum of an impetuous heart! The mind is restless, its law is expansion; and when it becomes independent, artistic and inventive, it cannot be repressed or subjected. Whatever the one faculty may be, in the individual in which it predominates, that faculty becomes the characteristic and controlling central force.

Coming generations will find means of overcoming obstacles which now seem insurmountable. Strength of will, morally directed, is one of the noblest traits of man, because it is a measure of his attainments, and prophesies his inconceivable possibilities. By the culture of the harmonious action of all the faculties, and the constant effort to place the higher in ascendency, the will may be strengthened in that direction, to an unlimited extent.

The will has no limitation except mental qualities, with which it deals. It cannot create. It can only use the material on hand. It means the sum of mental activities. We must regard it as the dynamics of the mind. So far as man is a centerstance, his will is not free; a centerstance of force, it becomes free; the mind is a treasure-house of the past; it is a mighty reserve which is at the disposal of the will,

which term we retain, as we retain conscience, giving it a modified meaning. Will was destined to command its forces. Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to Heaven! Will must be, by reason swayed.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER AND PLEASURE; IGNORANCE IS WEAKNESS AND MISERY.

The intelligent anticipate evil and learn how to prevent it. Deep insight proceeds from self-acquaintance, joined with wide and varied experiences. A man of elevated character, has unbounded and immovable faith in the power of all laws and principles to overcome error, when joined with suitable means. Spiritually unfolded minds regard inequalities as imperfections incident to the ascending flight of progressive principles, established in nature.

Intellectual cultivation is a progressive work. The powers of the mind unfold with their exertion; each successive effort adds to its power and ability.

Great mental power in any direction is yielded to and acknowledged. A superior, rich individuality, especially much mental power, is without doubt the happiest life on earth, however different the issue of it may have been from that of the most brilliant lot.

How narrow the bounds, and the world is so vast

And time fleeth so fast.

So narrow are we in our sympathies, so careless, even to cultivate the whole mass of our capabilities, that many persons are only half alive in one-half of their nature.

Faculties perish for want of proper exercise. The remedy for narrowness, for mental paralysis, for unelastic natures, is the cultivation of the philosophic spirit. The cultivation, the rational of personal purification, is the true study and occupation for the individual, as each is stamped with the

lineaments of parents, which must be outgrown if bad, and improved upon if good.

A good, well-formed, evenly-balanced nature, is the world's great need. The well-balanced mind is the best condition for usefulness, for happiness and for long life. The real fruit of intellectual refinement and moral growth is musical harmony of mind.

WE SHOULD HAVE THE WHOLE NATURE IN TRAINING.

The mission of thought is to agitate, develop, enlighten and purify the human mind. The mind is a substance, and like the body, is strengthened by exercise. Each faculty is susceptible of improvement or deterioration, and may be strengthened, perverted, neglected or weakened.

Industry is a redoubling of the capital of the spirit. The mind that lies fallow but for a single day, sprouts up in follies that can only be displaced by a constant and assiduous culture. A man of genius even, is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always nourishing his genius; both in mind and body, where nourishment ceases, vitality fails. Unless thought perpetually renews its youth and lifts a seeking eye afresh to the living light, decrepitude and waste befalls whatever it has achieved.

How many live in the graves of their unemployed faculties! The soil of the mind is rich and inexhaustible in resources. Mind has not yet been aroused; it has not yet declared itself. The superior faculties speak in silvery tones to that which is ordinary in you, saying, Live worthier; be thou whole, wise, rich, healthy and happy.

MAXIMS OF THE WISE SOURCES OF INTELLECTUAL WEALTH.

A spiritually inspired utterance may arouse the mind to high action. The word of man-the uttered thought of

man-is still a magic formula whereby he rules the world. A sublime truth once uttered, becomes a perpetual spur to noble deeds.

Great ideas usually precede and cause illustrious achievement. Important truths have been imported from the fields of science, which by proper investigation every person may perceive.

Civilization evolves ideas. Man should not avoid the effort of bracing the mind to think. Every person should possess individuality. Every person should seek to become a self-regulated and rich autocrat; the comfortable democracy of the human mind.

Mental power and culture are royal prerogatives. Ignorance is a sin, because it is the prolific source of crime, bigotry, superstition and vice. The possession of mind imposes the obligation of culture. Man must not only think, but he must learn to think aright. Observation of phenomena is the food of the intellect, which digested appears in ideas. The highest words of the new scholar are progress and

power.

For the cultured heart and brains

A use in literature obtains.

Culture turns from poetry to science. Man should not only be ethical and theoretical, but practical and constructive; he should live in the concrete, of which he should have a clear perception; he should live in the full affluence of his capabilities. Leisure, well spent, is the condition of civili

zation.

The improvement of time is only another name for virtue and happiness. We should fill up the vacant moments in order to enrich the harvest of remembrance.

Let me see how time is passing:

Soon the longest life departs.