"Though you fear me, though you doubt me, I shall win whate'er befall; Though you jeer me, though you flout me, Truth and I against you all!

"Though you bend me, though you break me, Time and I against you all; Time and truth at last shall make me Lord of you who am your thrall!

"Though you chain me, though you burn me, Yet the earth, though that befall, Moves; and though you daunt and turn me, It still moves in spite of all!"

Calumny and ostracism have taken the place of stones and swords in dealing with the prophet. It is much more respectable to cut a man's head so slick that he doesn't realize it, than it is to bungle the job with a mere sword of polished steel. The world has always stoned its prophets. Progress, in this respect, hinges upon misdirected intellect. It is the law of life that the penalty of ignorance, the pain of imperfection, falls not on one but on all. One brotherhood and one blood flows uninterruptedly, an endless circulation, through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea and, truly seen, its tide is one. We are so bound and knit together that suffering in one results in suffering to others. No man ever yet paid the penalty of broken laws that others did not share it with him. As it is impossible to protect or shield the wrong-doer from the consequences of his act, so it is impossible to shield from suffering those who are bound or related to him. When a man imagines he is made of a little better clay than other men, set him down as a piece of earthenware, half baked; there is a flaw in the composition somewhere; he calls more for pity than censure, for a fool cannot help his mental deficiency.

There is a living gospel in the world, but it is not perceived by those who are blinded by prejudice and biased by the traditions of the past. Truth is gauged by the power of conception, and concepts are formed by one's environment There is a pleasure which comes without seeking - that which attends loyally to the truth and faithfully to the right. A commanding officer of a prominent British regiment, having requested a drill sergeant to ascertain the religious views of some new recruits, the latter were paraded and the sergeant cried out: "Fall in! Church of England men on the right! Roman Catholics on the left! All fancy religions to the rear!"