In The One Branch He Most Needed

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

The President May Indeed In One Respect Resemble The Commander Of An Army In Peace, But In Another And More Essential Sense He Resembles The Commander Of A Ship At Sea. He Must Have A Helm To Grasp, A Course To Steer, A Port To Seek. He Must Sooner Or Later Be Convinced That A Perpetual Calm Is As Little To His Purpose As A Perpetual Hurricane, And That Without Headway The Ship Can Arrive Nowhere.

Society' In America Means All The Honest, Kindly-mannered, Pleasant- Voiced Women, And All The Good, Brave, Unassuming Men, Between The Atlantic And The Pacific. Each Of These Has A Free Pass In Every City And Village, 'good For This Generation Only,' And It Depends On Each To Make Use Of This Pass Or Not As It May Happen To Suit His Or Her Fancy.

The Virgin Filled So Enormous A Space In The Life And Thought Of The Time That One Stands Now Helpless Before The Mass Of Testimony To Her Direct Action And Constant Presence In Every Moment And Form Of The Illusion Which Men Thought They Thought Their Existence.

If Thought Is Capable Of Being Classed With Electricity, Or Will With Chemical Affinity, As A Mode Of Motion, It Seems Necessary To Fall At Once Under The Second Law Of Thermodynamics As One Of The Energies Which Most Easily Degrades Itself, And, If Not Carefully Guarded, Returns Bodily To The Cheaper Form Called Heat. Of All Possible Theories, This Is Likely To Prove The Most Fatal To Professors Of History.