."--_H.W. Beecher._

"As all the stars are pervaded by one law, in one law
live and move and have their being, so all minds that
reason and all hearts that beat, act in one empire of one
king; and of that vast kingdom, the law the most
sweeping, the most eternal, is the law of loving
kindness."--_Swing._

"The nations have turned their places of art treasure
into battle-fields. Fancy what Europe would be now if the
delicate statues and temples of the Greeks--if the broad
and massive walls of the Romans, if the noble and
pathetic architecture of the Middle Ages, had not been
ground to dust by mere human rage. You talk of the scythe
of time and the tooth of time; I tell you time is
scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the
worm, we who smite like the scythe. All these lost
treasures of human intellect have been wholly destroyed
by human industry of destruction; the marble would have
stood its 2,000 years as well in the polished statue as
in the Parian cliff; but we men have ground it to powder
and mixed it with our own ashes."--_Ruskin._

XII

THE SCIENCE OF LIVING WITH MEN

The great writers of all ages have held themselves well away from any
formal discussion of the art of right living and the science of a
skillful carriage of one's faculties. Government, war and eloquence
have indeed received full scientific statement, and those arts called
music and sculpture have obtained abundant literary treatment. But,
for some reason, no philosopher has ever attempted a formal treatise
teaching the youth how to carry his faculties so as to avoid injuring
his fellows and secure for them peace, happiness and success.
Nevertheless, the art of handling marble is nothing compared to the
art of handling men. Skill in evoking melody from the harp is less
than nothing compared to skill in allaying discords in the soul and
calling out its noblest impulses, its most energetic forces.

Nor is there any science or any productive industry whatsoever that is
at all comparable to the science of just, smooth and kindly living.
For the business of life is not the use and control of winds and
rivers; it is not the acquisition of skill in calling out the secret
energies contained in the soil or concealed in the sky. The business
of life is the mastery of the art of living smoothly and justly with
one's