vine hardness which is the very
heart of a diviner joy and of that "fuller life" of "which our veins are
scant," nor refuse for them and for ourselves the words of life: "As the
Father hath sent Me into the world, even so send I you"; but be content
to send them into the world to love, to suffer, to endure, to live and
die for the good of others.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 34: See some curious facts given in Darwin's _Origin of
Species_.]

[Footnote 35: _David Grieve_, by Mrs. Humphry Ward, sixth edition, p.
401.]

[Footnote 36: _David Grieve_, p. 524.]

[Footnote 37: _Nineteenth Century_, May, 1892.]

CHAPTER X

NATIONAL AND IMPERIAL ASPECTS

I cannot conclude these imperfect suggestions as to how we may best
carry up the moral training of our children, and especially of our boys,
to a higher level, without touching on the wider and national aspect of
the problems we have been considering. Especially is this necessary in
relation to that attribute which, in common parlance, arrogates to
itself the name that covers the vast sweep of all moral obligation and
calls itself emphatically "morality." "Language," Dr. Martineau has
finely said, "is the great confessional of the human heart"; and it may
be in some instinctive sense that this question of personal purity or
the reverse is the determining force for good or evil to the nation, as
well as to the family, that has given this restricted sense to the words
"morality" and "immorality." Yet we are possessed with an inveterate and
almost irreclaimable tendency to look at the question of purity of life
from a purely individualistic standpoint, and to regard it as a matter
concerning the individual rather than the social organism. In electing a
member for the Legislature how often have we not been told that we are
only concerned with his public career, and have nothing whatever to do
with his private life, though the private life is only another
expression for the man himself; and how can we be called upon to entrust
the destinies of our country to a libertine who habitually violates the
obligations of his own manhood and does his best to lower and degrade
the womanhood of the people he is called as a member of the Legislature
to protect and to raise? When shall we learn that whatever touches the
higher life and well-being of the family still more vitally affects the
wider family of the State, and threatens its disintegration? The family
in some lower form will