ot the warrior,
Ambition, not the giant, Legislation, but the little child, Love, is
to lead in the golden age. She is the best woman who does most to
hasten the inauguration of that divine Child.

Thoughtful observers agree, that the most ominous characteristic of
the present age is, its complication of interests, its doubts, its
weariness, its frittering multiplicity of indulgences, cares, and
obligations. The best individual remedy for this evil is friendship.
Affectionate communion with a trusted and confiding friend, more than
any other experience, appeases the misgivings of conscience,
satisfies the vague searches of the mind, and gives peace to the
eternal cravings of our gregarious nature.

If ever the cry of the horse-leech shall cease to be the painful
language of the heart, it will be when, the longings of the heart no
longer baffled by the vacancies or the irritating rivalries of a
vapid and jealous society, all human beings developed enough to need,
and noble enough to deserve, shall also be fortunate enough to
possess, true friends with whom they may commune in unity of spirit
and mirrored doubleness of life. Gratified affection is the true
fruition of a spiritual existence. To hope and fear in the being of
another first gives us the fulfilled consciousness of our own.

CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

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