l be glad to know you, glad to help
you, glad to employ you, because they see that you will be of use to
them, and will do them no harm. And if you meet (as you will meet) with
people better and wiser than yourself, then so much the better for you;
for they will love you, and be glad to teach you when they see that you
are living the unselfish and harmless life; and that you come to them,
not as foolish Critias came to Socrates, to learn political cunning, and
become a selfish and ambitious tyrant, but as wise Plato came, that he
might learn the laws of Lady Why, and love them for her sake, and teach
them to all mankind. And so you, like the plants and animals, will get
your deserts exactly, without competing and struggling for existence as
they do.

And all this has come out of looking at the hay-field and the wild moor.

Why not? There is an animal in you, and there is a man in you. If the
animal gets the upper hand, all your character will fall back into wild
useless moor; if the man gets the upper hand, all your character will be
cultivated into rich and fertile field. Choose.

Now come down home. The haymakers are resting under the hedge. The
horses are dawdling home to the farm. The sun is getting low, and the
shadows long. Come home, and go to bed while the house is fragrant with
the smell of hay, and dream that you are still playing among the
haycocks. When you grow old, you will have other and sadder dreams.

CHAPTER XI--THE WORLD'S END

Hullo! hi! wake up. Jump out of bed, and come to the window, and see
where you are.

What a wonderful place!

So it is: though it is only poor old Ireland. Don't you recollect that
when we started I told you we were going to Ireland, and through it to
the World's End; and here we are now safe at the end of the old world,
and beyond us the great Atlantic, and beyond that again, thousands of
miles away, the new world, which will be rich and prosperous, civilised
and noble, thousands of years hence, when this old world, it may be, will
be dead, and little children there will be reading in their history books
of Ancient England and of Ancient France, as you now read of Greece and
Rome.

But what a wonderful place it is! What are those great green things
standing up in the sky, all over purple ribs and bars, with their tops
hid in the clouds?

Those are mountains; the bones of some old world, whose poor bare sides
Madam How is trying to cover with ric