nd that man shall come up to the highest standard; and there is an
inherent protest or contempt for preventable deficiency. Nature too
demands that man be ever at the top of his condition. The giant's
strength with the imbecile's brain will not be characteristic of the
coming man.

Man has been a dwarf of himself, but a higher type of manhood stands at
the door of this age knocking for admission.

As we stand upon the seashore while the tide is coming in, one wave
reaches up the beach far higher than any previous one, then recedes,
and for some time none that follows comes up to its mark, but after a
while the whole sea is there and beyond it, so now and then there comes
a man head and shoulders above his fellow-men, showing that Nature has
not lost her ideal, and after a while even the average man will overtop
the highest wave of manhood yet given to the world.

Apelles hunted over Greece for many years, studying the fairest points
of beautiful women, getting here an eye, there a forehead and there a
nose, here a grace and there a turn of beauty, for his famous portrait
of a perfect woman which enchanted the world. So the coming man will
be a composite, many in one. He will absorb into himself not the
weakness, not the follies, but the strength and the virtues of other
types of men. He will be a man raised to the highest power. He will
be self-centred, equipoised, and ever master of himself. His
sensibility will not be deadened or blunted by violation of nature's
laws. His whole character will be impressible, and will respond to the
most delicate touches of nature.

What a piece of work--this coming man! "How noble in reason. How
infinite in faculties. In form and motion how express and admirable,
in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. The
beauty of the world. The paragon of animals."

The first requisite of all education and discipline should be
man-timber. Tough timber must come from well grown, sturdy trees.
Such wood can be turned into a mast, can be fashioned into a piano or
an exquisite carving. But it must become timber first. Time and
patience develop the sapling into the tree. So through discipline,
education, experience, the sapling child is developed into hardy
mental, moral, physical timber.

What an aid to character building would be the determination of the
young man in starting out in life to consider himself his own bank;
that his notes will be accepted as g