id Hume, and show that man lives only in his influence,
his individual life returning to the mass and becoming a part of all the
great pulsing existence that ebbs and flows through plant and tree and
flower and flying bird. And today we turn to Plato and find the
corroboration of our thought that to live now and here, up to our
highest and best, is the acme of wisdom. We prepare to live by living.
If there is another world we better be getting ready for it. If heaven
is an Ideal Republic it is founded on unselfishness, truth, reciprocity,
equanimity and co-operation, and only those will be at home there who
have practised these virtues here. Man was made for mutual service. This
way lies Elysium.

Plato was a teacher of teachers, and like every other great teacher who
has ever lived, his soul goes marching on, for to teach is to influence,
and influence never dies. Hail, Plato!

[Illustration: KING ALFRED]

KING ALFRED

A saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a
warrior who fought only in defense of his country, a conqueror
whose laurels were never stained with cruelty, a prince never cast
down by adversity, nor lifted up to insolence in the hour of
triumph--there is no other name in English history to compare with
his.

--_Freeman_

KING ALFRED

Julius Caesar, the greatest man of initiative the world has ever seen,
had a nephew known as Caesar Augustus.

The grandeur that was Rome occurred in the reign of Augustus. It was
Augustus who said, "I found your city mud and I left it marble!" The
impetus given to the times by Julius Caesar was conserved by Augustus. He
continued the work his uncle had planned, but before he had completed
it, he grew very weary, and the weariness he expressed was also the old
age of the nation. There was lime in the bones of the boss.

When Caesar Augustus said, "Rome is great enough--here we rest," he
merely meant that he had reached his limit, and had had enough of
road-building. At the boundaries of the Empire and the end of each Roman
road he set up a statue of the god Terminus. This god gave his blessing
to those going beyond, and a welcome to those returning, just as the
Stars and Stripes welcome the traveler coming to America from across the
sea. This god Terminus also supplied the world, especially the railroad
world, a word.

Julius Caesar reached his terminus and died, aged fifty-six, from
compulsory vacci