The doing right alone teaches the value or the meaning of right; the doing it willingly, if the will is happily constituted; the doing it unwillingly, or under compulsion, if persuasion fails to convince.

2.

FROUDE-Short Studies on Great
Subjects. On Progress. Pt. III.

A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions,
Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be
To pierce the ether's high unknown
To reach new spheres of pure activity.
GOETHE-Faust.

x.

dominions,

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. y. HUTCHINSON-Inquiry; Concerning

Moral Good and Evil. Sec. 3.

The course of my long life hath reached at last,

In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea, The common harbor, where must rendered be,

Account of all the actions of the past. g. LONGFELLOW-- Old Age.

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,

And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. h. LONGFELLOW-Canzone.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

i. LONGFELLOW-Morituri Salutamus.

Line 264. Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

j.

GEORGE MACDONALD-The Marquis of
Lossie. Ch. XL.

Set is the sun of my years;

And over a few poor ashes,

I sit in my darkness and tears.

k.

The ages roll

GERALD MASSEY-A Wail.

Forward; and forward with them, draw my

soul