n God. The
Infinite One forgets nothing save human frailty and sin. Remembering
the great mind, the eloquent tongue, the large purse, God remembers
also the cup of cold water, and causes the humblest deed to follow its
doer unto the heavenly shores.

THE IMAGINATION AS THE ARCHITECT OF MANHOOD

"Imagination rules the world."--_Napoleon._

"The imagination is the very secret and marrow of
civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul
without imagination is what an observatory would be
without a telescope."--_Beecher._

"In such natures the imagination seems to spire up like a
Gothic cathedral over a prodigiously solid crypt of
common sense, so that its lightness stands secure on the
consciousness of an immovable basis."--_Lowell._

"Man's reason is overhung by the imagination. It rains
rich treasures for fertilizing the barren soul."--_Anon._

"By faith Abraham went forth, not knowing whither he
went."--_Hebrews._

VII

THE IMAGINATION AS THE ARCHITECT OF MANHOOD

Measured by whatsoever standard, Moses was the one colossal man of
antiquity. It may be doubted whether nature has ever produced a
greater mind. When we consider that law, government and education took
their rise in his single brain; when we remember that the
commonwealths of to-day rest upon foundations reared by this jurist of
the desert; when we recall his poetic and literary skill, Moses stands
forth clothed with the proportions and grandeur of an all-comprehending
genius. His intellect seems the more titanic by reason of the obstacles
and romantic contrasts in his career. He was born in the hut of a
slave, but so strikingly did his genius flame forth that he won the
approbation of the great, and passed swiftly from the slave market to
the splendor of Pharaoh's palace.

Fortunately, his youth was not without the refinements and
accomplishments of the schools. For then Egypt was the one radiant
spot upon earth. At a time when Greece was a den of robbers and Rome
was unheard of, Memphis was gloriously attractive. Schools of art and
science stood along the banks of the Nile. From Thebes Pythagoras
carried mathematics into Greece. From Memphis Solon derived his wise
political precepts. In Luxor, architecture and sculpture took their
rise. From Cleopatra's kingdom men stole the obelisks now in New York
and London. Moses' opportunities were fully equa