failure in life do so without having committed any notable fault, or shown any unusual degree of stupidity or weakness. Their characters are neither torn nor soiled, only, like poor cloth, carelessly woven. Their lives are not like streams in the Yosemite that plunge over the tall cliff and are lost in glorious spray. They have not even channeled the water of their own springs, and so are drained away in the dirt. Bulwer makes Earl Godwin, when about to die, sum up his experi ence thus, "In the battle of life the arrows we neglect to pick up, Fate, our foe, will store in her quiver." XII INCENTIVES FROM PHYSICAL CONDITION S the expression warranted? Whatever importance we may attach to bodily health, however true the precept, "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano," are not incentives to noble life purely mental, moral, or spiritual? We have been taught that the body is only a machine through which the soul operates upon the outer world; the "harp of a thousand strings" upon which the spirit plays the music it conceives; in the late Dr. Hepworth's figure, the body is the boat which the real man rows across the bay of time. Admitting this to be the true theory of soul and body, the outer nature may be seen to inspire or to discourage the inner. Had Hanlon or Courtney never practiced in the pike-like shell, but gained their muscle only in poling a raft, they would doubtless have felt no incentive to lead the race. If Paderewski had never had an instrument more responsive to his exquisite musical conception than a tortoise-shell lyre, would he have had incentive to devote his life to |