Whenever A Man Reaches The

The Photograph Is A Coarse Fraud, And Seems To Delight Only In Taking The Whole Beauty Out Of The Picture.

For After All Man Knows Mighty Little, And May Some Day Learn Enough Of His Own Ignorance To Fall Down Again And Pray. Not That Icare. Only, If Such Is God's Will, And Fate And Evolution--let There Be God!

In The One Branch He Most Needed

A Period Of About Twelve Years Measured The Beat Of The Pendulum. After The Declaration Of Independence, Twelve Years Had Been Needed To Create An Efficient Constitution; Another Twelve Years Of Energy Brought A Reaction Against The Government Then Created; A Third Period Of Twelve Years Was Ending In A Sweep Toward Still Greater Energy; And Already A Child Could Calculate The Result Of A Few More Such Returns.

Charles Sumner's Mind Had Reached The Calm Of Water Which Receives And Reflects Images Without Absorbing Them; It Contains Nothing But Itself.