Humanly Speaking

flowing in the right direction. They have never been confronted with ruins that tell that the land they inhabit has seen better days. Yesterday is vague; To-day may be uncer

er good thing has assumed that

had the most remarkable providences, the most remarkable painful preachers, the most remarkable heresies, the most remarkable witches. Even the l

gination. To be sure, it would be said, there isn't much just now to attract the historian whose mind dwells exclusively on the past. But to one who dips into the future it is thrilling. Here is the battlefield of Armageddon. Some day we shall see "the spirits of

ves to be historical characters, as indeed they were. They were impressed by the magnitude of th

in Boys. Writing to the Continental Congress, he declares that unless the demands of Vermont are complied with "we will retire into the fas

Mississippi Valley, stopping every night in some town that had something which was advertised as the biggest in the world. On Friday I reached a sleepy little village which seemed the picture of contented mediocrity.

g what excellent qualities we find in ourselves, we should ask what do other nations most dislike in us. We can then have room to rise to better things. There is a family resemblance between th

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akes him indifferent to the note of distinction. "He dubs his dreary brethren kings." Of course they are not kings, but that

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ems much distressed, still less is any one depressed. The city government is in the hands of grafters, the police force is corrupt, the prices of the necessaries of life are extortionate, the laws on the statute book are not enforced, and new laws are about to be enacted that are foolish in the extreme. Vast numbers of undesirable aliens are coming into the country and bringing with them ideas t

he other or both. There are cynics and sentimentalists who are the despair of all who are seriously working for better citizenship. But the cha

y are inclined to take a cheerful view of the whole situation it is because they are in the habit of looking at the situation as a whole. The predominance of force is actually on their side and they see no reason to doubt the final result. They have learned the meaning of the text, "Fret not thyself because of evildoers." In fact the evildoer may not have done so much harm as

ne that things are not as they seem is a cheerful one, to a person who is accustomed to dealing with things which turn out to be better than at first they seemed. The unknown takes on a friendly guise and awakens a pleasant curiosity. That is the ex