A  robnst  tmth-speaking  is  the  best  pedagogic  preparation  for
active  life,  which  holds  men  up  to  the  top  of  their  moral  con-
dition above  the  false  beliefs,  false  fears,  and  ftilse  shames,
hope*,  loves  we  are  prone  to.  The  effort  to  act  a  part  or  fill
a  place  in  life  for  which  Xature  has  not  made  us,  whether  it
he  schooMired,  or  instinctively  fascinating  to  intoxication  as
it  is  for  feeble,  characterless,  psycho-physic  constitutions,  is
one  of  (lie  cliief  sonnies  of  waste  of  moral  energy  in  modem
society,  lies,  acted,  Ki>oken,  imagined,  give  that  morbid  self-
eonscionsDesR  so  titUetiug  to  neurotic  consti  tut  ions.  The  habit-
oal  gratification  of   »))  "  'N  wishes  indirectly  cultivates

mendfloity,  for  tr  %tx*X  hardy  self-sacrifice,


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miLDSEN'R  UBS.
which  luxury  makes  impossible.  Much  society  of  BtrftDgers
where  "first  impressions ' '  are  consctoasly  made,  tevors  it.
