Lifting the soul from the common sod
To a purer air and a broader view.

We rise by things that are under our fee
By what we have mastered of good and
By the pride deposed and the passion s
And the vanquished ills that we hourly n
We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust.
When the morning calls us to life and
But our hearts grow weary, and ere the
Our lives are trailing the sordid dust.

We hope, we resolve, we aspire, we pray,
And we think that we mount the air on
Beyond the recall of sensual things,
While our feet still cling to the heavy cla

Only in dreams is a ladder thrown

From the weary earth to the sapphire w But the dreams depart, and the vision fa And the sleeper awakes on his pillow of st Heaven is not reached at a single bound;

But we build the ladder by which we ris Frow the lowly earth to the vaulted ski And we mount to the summit round by ro

-J. G.

AWAIT THE ISSUE

In this world, with its wild whirling eddie: foam oceans, where men and nations perish as law, and judgment for an unjust thing is stern] dost thou think that there is therefore no just what the fool hath said in his heart. It is wha

all times, were wise because they denied, and knew forver not to be. I tell thee again, there is nothing else but stice. One strong thing I find here below: the just ing-the true thing.

My friend, if thou hadst all the artillery of Woolwich undling at thy back in support of an unjust thing, and finite bonfires visibly waiting ahead of thee, to blaze nturies long for thy victory on behalf of it, I would vise thee to call halt, to fling down thy baton, and say, n Heaven's name, No!"

Thy "success"?

Poor fellow, what will thy success ount to? If the thing is unjust, thou hast not sucded; no, not though bonfires blazed from north to th, and bells rang, and editors wrote leading articles, I the just things lay trampled out of sight, to all mortal s an abolished and annihilated thing.

t is the right and noble alone that will have victory this struggle; the rest is wholly an obstruction, a ponement and fearful imperilment of the victory. ward an eternal center of right and nobleness, and of only, is all confusion tending. We already know her it is all tending; what will have victory, what have none ! The Heaviest will reach the center. Heaviest has its deflections, its obstructions, nay, at s its reboundings; whereupon some blockhead shall eard jubilating: "See, your Heaviest ascends!" but 1 moments it is moving centerward, fast as is conent for it; sinking, sinking; and, by laws older than world, old as the Maker's first plan of the world, it o arrive there.

vait the issue. In all battles, if you await the issue, fighter has prospered according to his right. His and his might, at the close of the account, were one

апа пe same. He has fought

th all his

exact proportion to all his right he has p very death is no victory over him.

his work lives, very truly lives.

He die

A heroic Wallace, quartered on the sc hinder that his Scotland become, one da England; but he does hinder that it becon nous, unfair terms, a part of it; commands a god's voice, from his old Valhalla and T Brave, that there be a just, real union, as of brother, not a false and merely semblant on and master. If the union with England be i Scotland's chief blessings, we thank Wallace it was not the chief curse. Scotland is not because brave men rose there and said, "Beh not tread us down like slaves; and ye sh cannot !"

Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter dark fortune and through bright. The cause t for, so far as it is true, no further, yet precise very sure of victory. The falsehood alone d conquered, will be abolished, as it ought to truth of it is part of Nature's own laws, coöp the world's eternal tendencies, and cannot be

CHAPTER V

INFLECTION

If we listen attentively to the speech of those about , we shall notice not only that the words vary in time d pitch, but also that no one sound remains on quite the me note for any appreciable length of time. This is becially noticeable in the emphatic words, where somenes we hear a very long sweep of the voice up or down. This change of pitch on a syllable is called Inflection Slide, in distinction from Skips of the voice, as in lamations (“Oh, no!") or from the melody of emphaalready described.

nflections are usually designated as: Falling (\), ing (/), Monotone (−), Circumflex or Compound v, VS).

he Falling slide is positive, certain, and shows com-eness: "Yes, certainly."

go?"

The Rising slide is characteristic of all dependent, uncer, incomplete moods of mind. For instance, in asking mple question like, "Will you go?" the inflection and dy both rise, "Will you leaving, as it were, thought in the air, to be completed by the person essed, who, if he answers positively, will speak with ling tendency, completing the little speech melody by ging his voice back to the keynote, for example :

But rhetorical questions generally have f

tion:

Will

you sit

down, sir?

while very serious questions with surprise falling melody with rising inflections:

And do you now cull out a

hol

The Monotone may be best described as th definite inflection, rather than as an absolutel pitch. It is heard in the prolonged tones of "Hello-o-o-o!" and in emotions which check tendencies of inflection, as awe, solemnity, An habitual monotone in reading betrays thought, or inability to make careful distinctio ideas.

There was silence, and I heard a voice say "Shall mortal man be more just than Go Shall a man be more pure than his Maker

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlast lasting, thou art God.

Hush! Hark! Did stealing steps go by

Ghost. I am thy father's spirit,

Doom'd for a certain term to walk the nigh
And for the day, confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nat
Are burnt and purged away.

SHAKESPEARE,