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The Rarest Attainment Is To Grow Old Happily And Gracefully.

It Is Wonderful How Shy Even Liberal Ministers Generally Are About Trusting People With The Plain Truth Concerning Their Religion. They Want To Veil It In A Supernatural Haze. They Are Very Reluctant To Part With The Old Idea That God Has Given To Jews And Christians A Peculiar Monopoly Of Truth. It Is A Selfish View Of God's Government Of The World, And It Is Time That We Knew Enough To Outgrow It.

Not In Vain Is Ireland Pouring Itself All Over The Earth. The Irish, With Their Glowing Hearts And Reverent Credulity, Are Needed In This Cold Age Of Intellect And Skepticism.

All Who Strive To Live For Something Beyond Mere Selfish Aims Find Their Capacities For Doing Good Very Inadequate To Their Aspirations. They Do So Much Less Than They Want To Do, And So Much Less Than They, At The Outset, Expected To Do, That Their Lives, Viewed Retrospectively, Inevitably Look Like Failure.

England May As Well Dam Up The Waters Of The Nile With Bulrushes As To Fetter The Step Of Freedom, More Proud And Firm In This Youthful Land Than Where She Treads The Sequestered Glens Of Scotland, Or Couches Herself Among The Magnificent Mountains Of Switzerland.