fixed in the race instinct. This is the dominant idea of our time reciprocity. In business, the transaction where only one side prospers is immoral. Mutuality is the watchword in all of man's relations with man. Government exists only for the increased happiness of the governed-he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

These are the ideas that have in the past been held by a few and these precious few have usually been killed for giving expression to their thoughts. Now they are everywhere expressed, and are gradually becoming fixed in the race consciousness. Righteousness will yet become a habit.

¶ Man could behold the Infinite, if only he would not stand in his own shadow.

¶ Don't pry the day open with a liquid jimmy, or Nemesis will surely pinch you.

HE other day I wrote to a banker-friend inquiring

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as to the responsibility of a certain person. The answer came back thus: "He is a Hundred-Point man in everything and anything he undertakes." I read the telegram and then pinned it up over my desk where I could see it. That night it sort of stuck in my memory. I dreamed of it. The next day I showed the message to a fellow I know pretty well, and said, "I'd rather have that said of me than to be called a great this or that."

¶ Oliver Wendell Holmes has left on record the statement that you could not throw a stone on Boston Common without caroming on three poets, two essayists, and a playwright P

¶ Hundred-Point men are not so plentiful.

¶A Hundred-Point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers, without being "fresh;" who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; is cautious and yet courageous. ¶ Hundred-Point men may vary much in ability, but this is always true-they are safe men to deal with, whether drivers of drays, motormen, clerks, cashiers, engineers or presidents of railroads.

¶ Paranoiacs are people who are suffering from fatty enlargement of the ego. They want the best seat in the synagogue, they demand bouquets, compliments, obeisance, and in order to see what the papers will say next morning, they sometimes obligingly commit suicide ›☛☛ The paranoiac is the antithesis of the Hundred-Point man. The paranoiac imagines he is being wronged, and that some one has it in for him, and that the world is down on him. He is given to that which is strange, peculiar, uncertain, eccentric and erratic.

¶ The Hundred-Point man may not look just like all other men, or dress like them, or talk like them, but what he does is true to his own nature. He is himself.

¶ He is more interested in doing his own work than in what people will say about it. He does not consider the gallery. He acts his thought, and thinks little of the act.

¶ I never knew a Hundred-Point man who was not brought up from early youth to make himself useful and to economize in the matter of time and money.

Necessity is ballast.

The paranoiac, almost without exception, is one who has been made exempt from work. He has been petted, waited upon, coddled, cared for, laughed at and chuckled to. ¶ The excellence of the old-fashioned big family was that no child got an undue amount of attention. The antique idea that the child must work for his parents until the day he was twenty-one was a deal better for the youth than to let him get it into his head that his parents must work for him.

¶Nature intended that we should all be poor-that we should earn our bread every day before we eat it.

¶ When you find the Hundred-Point man you will find one who lives like a person in moderate circumstances, no matter what his finances are. Every man who thinks he has the world by the tail and is about to snap its demnition head off for the delectation of mankind, is unsafe, no matter how great his genius in the line of specialties. ¶ The Hundred-Point man looks after just one individual, and that is the man under his own hat; he is the one who does not spend money until he earns it; who pays his way; who knows that nothing is ever given for nothing; who keeps his digits off other people's property. When he does not know what to say, why, he says nothing, and when he does not know what to do, does not do it. We should mark on moral qualities, not merely mental attainment or proficiency, because in the race of life only moral qualities count. We should rate on judgment, application and intent. Men who, by habit and nature, are untrue to a trust are dangerous just in proportion as they are clever. I would like to see a university devoted to turning out safe men instead of merely clever ones.

¶ How would it do for a college to give one degree, and one only, to those who are worthy-the degree of H. P.?

Would it not be worth striving for, to have a college president say to you, over his own signature: "He is a Hundred-Point man in everything and anything he undertakes?" e

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ENIUS is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business, sometimes, prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

¶ Life is a gradual death. There are animals and insects that die on the instant of the culmination of the act for which they were created. Success is death, and death, if you have bargained wisely with Fate, is Victory.

Be sincere, but don't be too serious-at the last, nothing matters much.

¶ Avoid the pleasures that leave a burnt-sienna taste in your mouth.

¶ The only way to abolish a serving class is for all to join it.

Any man who can quietly override the wishes and ambitions of other men is first well feared, and then thoroughly hated.

¶ An ounce of performance is worth a pound of preachment

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HE old and once popular view of life that regarded man as a sinful, lost, fallen, despised, despicable and damned thing has very naturally tended to kill in him enthusiasm, health and self-reliance. Probably it has shortened the average length of life more than a score of years

¶ When man comes to realize that he is part and particle of the Divine Energy that lives in all he sees and feels and hears, he will, indeed, be in a position to claim and receive his birthright. And this birthright is to be healthy and happy

The Religion of Humanity does not seek to placate the wrath of a Non-Resident Deity, nor does it worship an Absentee God.

¶ It knows nothing of gods, ghosts, goblins, sprites, fairies, devils and witches. I would not know a god if I saw one coming down the street in an automobile.

¶ If ever a man existed who had but one parent, this fact of his agamogenesis would not be any recommendation