ws that his reward is in the nature of things,
and not in the caprice even of the Infinite. He is not a good and
faithful servant, he is an intelligent free man.

The vicious are ignorant; real morality is the child of intelligence;
the free and intelligent man knows that every action must be judged
by its consequences; he knows that if he does good he reaps a good
harvest; he knows that if he does evil he bears a burden, and he
knows that these good and evil consequences are not determined by
an infinite master, but that they live in and are produced by the
actions themselves.

--_Evening Advertiser_, New York, February 6, 1892.

WORD PAINTING AND COLLEGE EDUCATION.

_Question_. What is the history of the speech delivered here in
1876? Was it extemporaneous?

_Answer_. It was not born entirely of the occasion. It took me
several years to put the thoughts in form--to paint the pictures
with words. No man can do his best on the instant. Iron to be
beaten into perfect form has to be heated several times and turned
upon the anvil many more, and hammered long and often.

You might as well try to paint a picture with one sweep of the
brush, or chisel a statue with one stroke, as to paint many pictures
with words, without great thought and care. Now and then, while
a man is talking, heated with his subject, a great thought, sudden
as a flash of lightning, illumines the intellectual sky, and a
great sentence clothed in words of purple, falls, or rather rushes,
from his lips--but a continuous flight is born, not only of
enthusiasm, but of long and careful thought. A perfect picture
requires more details, more lights and shadows, than the mind can
grasp at once, or on the instant. Thoughts are not born of chance.
They grow and bud and blossom, and bear the fruit of perfect form.

Genius is the soil and climate, but the soil must be cultivated,
and the harvest is not instantly after the planting. It takes time
and labor to raise and harvest a crop from that field called the
brain.

_Question_. Do you think young men need a college education to
get along?

_Answer_. Probably many useless things are taught in colleges.
I think, as a rule, too much time is wasted learning the names of
the cards without learning to play a game. I think a young man
should be taught something that he can use--something he can sell.
After coming from college he should be better equipped to battle
with the world--to do someth