lad to have a large extent of
territory and a numerous people to rule over; but his heart is not on
these things. To be at the head of a great kingdom and to see his people
loyal, united, and flourishing, gives the good king joy; but his heart
is not on these things. It is on benevolence, justice, propriety, and
knowledge that the good king's heart is set."

_THE INFLUENCE OF EXAMPLE_

Mencius said, "In the good days of old, men of virtue and talent
abounded in the land, and their influence for good was great upon their
fellows. But now, alas, the masses of the people are ignorant, and
depraved, and their dominant influence is bad."

_COUNSELLORS SHOULD LOVE RIGHTEOUSNESS RATHER THAN RICHES_

Mencius said, "Those who counsel men in high places should feel contempt
for their pomp and display. I have no wish for huge and gorgeous halls,
for luxurious food with hundreds of attendants, or for sparkling wine or
bewitching women. These things I esteem not; what I esteem are the rules
of propriety handed down by the ancients."

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FENELON

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon was born at the
chateau of Fenelon, in the ancient territorial division of
Perigord, France, August 6, 1651. At twenty-four he became a
priest. He was for many years a friend of his celebrated
contemporary Bossuet, but later Bossuet attacked a spiritual
and unworldly work of Fenelon, who was condemned by the Pope.
He died on January 17, 1715, leaving behind him many books, of
which the "Treatise on the Existence of God," first published
in 1713, is the masterpiece. This noble and profound work,
though it accepts the "argument from design," which the
discovery of universal evolution necessarily modifies, does so
with such rare philosophical insight as to stand for ever far
above any other works of the kind. Fenelon can scarcely be
called a mystic, for his reason was of the finest, and never
surrendered its claims; but, though a strictly rational
thinker, he had the insight of the mystic or the idealist who
sees in external nature, and in the mind of man alike, what
Goethe called "the living garment of God."

_I.--THE HAND THAT MAKES EVERYTHING_

I cannot open my eyes without admiring the art that shines throughout
all nature; the least cast suffices to make me perceive th