he loved our country, and made our Republic the pattern for France. There is no grander sight in the world than that of a young man fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim. He is bound to win; the world stands one side and lets him pass; it always makes way for the man with a will in him. He does not have one half the opposition to overcome that the undecided, purposeless man has who, like driftwood, runs against all sorts of snags to which he must yield, because he has no momentum to force them out of his way. What a sublime spectacle it is to see a youth going straight to his goal, cutting his way through difficulties, and surmounting obstacles, which dishearten others, as though they were but stepping-stones! Defeat, like a gymna sium, only gives him new power; opposition only doubles his exertions; dangers only increase his courage. No matter what comes to him, sickness, poverty, disaster, he never turns his eye from his goal. "Duos qui sequitur lepores, neutrum capit." "Every one is the son of his own works." "Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe: it is a seed-grain that cannot die." CHAPTER VII. SOWING AND REAPING. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. GALATIANS. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny. G. D. BOARDMAN. Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined. - POPE. How use doth breed a habit in a man. - SHAKESPEARE. All habits gather, by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. DRYDEN. Infinite good comes from good habits which must result from the common influence of example, intercourse, knowledge, and actual experience - morality taught by good morals. — PLATO. The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. SAMUEL JOHNSON. Man is first startled by sin; then it becomes pleasing, then easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed. Then man is impenitent, then obstinate, then he is damned. JEREMY TAYLOR. "Rogues differ little. Each began as a disobedient son." In the great majority of things, habit is a greater plague than ever afflicted Egypt. — JOHN FOSTER You cannot in any given case, by any sudden and single effort, will to be true if the habit of your life has been insincere. F. W. ROBERTSON. The tissue of the life to be, We weave with colors all our own; We reap as we have sown. WHITTIER. "GENTLEMEN of the jury, you will now consider your verdict," said the great lawyer, Lord Tenterden, as he roused from his lethargy a moment, and then closed his eyes forever. "Tête d'armée" (head of the army), murmured Napoleon faintly; and then, "on the wings of a tempest that raged with unwonted fury, up to the throne of the only power that controlled him while he lived, went the fiery soul of that wonderful warrior." "Give Dayrolles a chair," said the dying Chesterfield with his old-time courtesy, and the next moment his spirit spread its wings. "Young man, keep your record clean," thrilled from the lips of John B. Gough as he sank to rise no more. What power over the mind of man is exercised by the dominant idea of his life "that parts not quite with parting breath!" It has shaped his purpose throughout his earthly career, and he passes into the Great Unknown, moving in the direction of his ideal; impelled still, amid the utter retrocession of the vital force, by all the momentum resulting from his weight of character and singleness of aim. "It is a beautiful arrangement in the mental and moral economy of our nature, that that which is performed as a duty may, by frequent repetitions, become a habit, and the habit of stern virtue, so repulsive to others, may hang around the neck like a wreath of flowers." Cholera appeared mysteriously in Toulon, and, after a careful examination, the medical inspectors learned that the first victims were two sailors on the Montebello, a government transport, long out of service, anchored at the entrance to the port. For many years the vessel had been used for storing old, disused military equipments. Some of these had belonged to French soldiers who had died before Sebastopol. The doctors learned that the two poor sailors were seized, suddenly and mortally, a few days after displacing a pile of equipments stored deep in the hold of the Montebello. The cholera of Toulon came in a direct line from the hospital of Varna. It went to sleep, apparently gorged, on a heap of the cast-off garments of its victims, to awaken thirty years later to victorious and venomous life. Professor Bonelli, of Turin, punctured an animal |