it flows, so modern learning marked out that river of shade and built up its banks, and along came the brief night and flowed in them most carefully.

But the astronomer went not alone; the science which can catch a picture in an instant; the science which can analyze a flame millions of miles distant, and tell what is being consumed; the science which can convey the true time two thousand miles while the excited heart beats once-these, and that grandest science which can see the rings of Saturn and the valleys of the moon, assembled on that height in the very summer when we are lamenting most that mankind knows no pursuit except that of gold.

That Rocky Mountain scene only faintly illustrates the intellectual activity of our era. If the passion for money is great in our day, it is also true that the intellectual power of the same period is equally colossal. No reader, be he ever so industrious, can keep pace with the issue of good books, and money itself is alarmed lest the new thoughts and invention of to-morrow may overthrow its investment of yesterday. Stocks tremble at the advance of intellect.

A glory of this intellectual passion may be found in the fact that it is not confined to a group of scholars, as old inquiry and education were confined, but like liberty and property, it has passed over to the many. Not all the multitude of the world are gold seekers, there are tens of thousands of men, and women too, who are lovers of truth more than of money, and are standing by the fountains of knowledge with no thought or expectation of ever being rich. Education and knowledge, the power to think

and to enjoy the thought of others, have long since transformed a cottage into a palace.

In the earliest history of man this impulse began to make noble all who bowed to it. It has ornamented whatever it has touched. What it has always done it will always do, and no youth can look into good books for even only a few moments each day, and can take that habit with him into all his or her subsequent life, without becoming transformed into a new likeness.

Among the motives of life that must urge us allonward, let us place the constant development of the mind and the daily accumulation of knowledge. This motive will blend perfectly with the motives of business and all pleasure. It displaces nothing of life's good, but many of its evils. It destroys idleness, it plucks the charm from vice, it quenches the thirst for riches, it brings us nearer to all times and nations, and binds by tender ties to all the noble living and to all the noble dead.

As foreign and wide travel breaks up the local prejudices of the mind, and makes all the world seem to be the home of man and all the dwellers upon it to be brothers, so the long and wide reading of the world's truths beats down the walls of partition and transforms the reading, thinking one into a better friend and citizen and Christian.

ac cu' mu la' tion, a collecting together; act of acquiring.

an' a lyze, to separate an idea or thing into its parts.

as tron' o mer, one versed in astronomy; a scientific observer of the stars. co los' sal, great.

ex' pec ta' tion, the act of looking for-
ward to.

i dol' a ter, a worshiper of idols.
in' stinct, natural inward impulse.
med' i ta' tion, deep thought.
prej' u dice, opinion or judgment
formed without due knowledge.
trans formed', changed.

ENERGY.

ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.

(From an "Address before the Emory College Societies.")

I have one other point only to present—that is, energy and execution. And though last in order, it is far from being least in importance. By this I mean application, attention, activity, perseverance, and untiring industry in that business or pursuit, whatever it may be, which is undertaken. Nothing great or good can ever be accomplished without labor and toil. Motion is the law of living nature. Inaction is the symbol of death, if it is not death itself. The hugest engines, with strength and capacity sufficient to drive the mightiest ships "across the stormy deep," are utterly useless without a moving

power.

Energy is the steam power, the motive principle of intellectual capacity. A small body driven by a great force will produce a result equal to, or even greater, than that of a much larger body moved by a considerably less force. So it is with minds. Hence we often see men of comparatively small capacity, by greater energy alone, leave, and justly leave, their superiors in natural gifts far behind them in the race for honors, distinction, and preferment.

This is the real vital force or that principle in human nature which gives power and vim to the efforts of genius toward whatever objects such efforts may be directed. It is this which imparts that quality which we designate by the very expressive term, "force of character"; that which meets, defies, and

bears down all opposition. This is, perhaps, the most striking characteristic of those great minds and intellects which never fail to impress their names, their views, ideas, and opinions indelibly upon the history of the times in which they live.

Men of this class are those pioneers of thought, who, sometimes even "in advance of the age, are known and marked in history as originators and discoverers, or those who overturn old orders and systems of things and build up new ones. To this class belong Columbus, Luther, Cromwell, Watt, Fulton, Franklin, and Washington. It was to the same class that General Jackson belonged. He not only had a very clear conception of his purpose, but a will and energy to execute it. And it is in the same class, or among the first order of men, that Henry Clay will be assigned a place.

Thrown upon life at an early age, without any means or resources save his natural powers and abilities, and without the advantages of anything above a common school education, he had nothing to rely upon but himself, nothing upon which to place a hope but his own exertions. But, fired with a high and noble ambition, he resolved, young as he was, and cheerless as were his prospects, to meet and surmount every embarrassment and obstacle by which he was surrounded.

His aims and objects were high and worthy of the greatest efforts; they were not to secure the laurels won upon the battle-field, but those wreaths which adorn the brow of the wise, the firm, the sagacious and far-seeing statesman. In his life and "haracter you have a most striking example of

what energy and indomitable perseverance can do, even when opposed by the most adverse circumstances.

ap' pli ca' tion, the act of fixing the mind upon something.

char' ac ter is' tic, a trait or feature
peculiar to.

des' ig nate, indicate; entitle; name.
in del' i bly, so as not to be blotted out
or erased.

in dom' i ta ble, resolute; unyielding.

o rig'i na'tor (ter), one who causes anything to be or to be done.

per' se ver' ance, steady and continued attention to any work.

pre fer' ment, advancement; promotion.

sa ga' cious (shus), keen to perceive. sym' bol, an outward sign.

THE HIGHER EDUCATION.

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.

(From an Address at the First Public Meeting of the Alumnal Association of the University of Cincinnati.)

It has been my fortune for twenty-five years as attorney, as counsel, as business associate in many enterprises, to become intimately acquainted with hundreds of men-literally hundreds of men — who, without any equipment whatever of education, have accumulated millions of dollars. I never met with one of them whose regret was not profound and deep and poignant that he had not an education. I never met one of them who did not lament either the neglect of his parents, or his own poor opportunities, that failed to give him this equipment. I never met one of them who did not feel in the presence of cultured people a certain sense of mortification which no money paid for.

What is success? Is it money? How much? When money gives a man so much power and influence, when it gives him so much position, when with it he can do so much for his family, for his comfort,