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345.

Envy.

The Basest of all Traits--A Wolf's Den--The Tailless Fox--Envy is
Largely Ignorance--Greatness attained only after Arduous Labors--The
Tenor and The Stone-Front--Thiers' Long Life--A Critical View of
Gladstone's Public Sorrows--Truly Distracting Dilemmas in which
Circumstances of Empire Involve Great Men--An appeal to Envy. Page 354.

Contentment.

Mrs. Lofty--First Surprise of the Newly-Rich--The Scotch Mist--The
Angel Sent to Conduct an Empire and the One Sent to Sweep a Street--Our
Principal Causes of Happiness Free to All--How Rich Men Secure
Happiness--The Prisoner and His Three Pins--Happiness Inalienable in
Health--A Pleasant View of Egotism as a necessary Ingredient in Our
Make-up. Page 362.

Ambition.

The Need of a "Balance of Power" in the Mind--As a General Thing
Ambition a Quality to be Curbed--Assassination of Merit by Envy--The Man
Qualified to Deal with Ambition--A Picture of His Unhappy Lot, as
Illustrated in Napoleon's Life--Poem. Page 368.

The Republic's Anchor.

A Favorite Chapter--The Telegraph Outriding the Storms--The Farmers the
Grand Conservative Forces of the Republic--Difference between Business
and Farming--How the Farmers Will Settle the Communists and the
Magnates--The Farmer's Sons--A Plea for Them--A Picture of the
Opportunities which We are Daily Missing. Page 375.

Temperance.

The Drunkard's Wife--A Drama of Horror--Why Society Looks So Calmly on
Such Scenes--The Wisdom and Experience of Society--Effort of the Brother
to Improve His Sister's Condition--The Result--What Society Is
Doing--The Drift of Things--Views of the Future--A Better Time nearly at
Hand. Page 386.

A Good Name.

The Highest Type of Reputation, a Silent but Powerful Influence--Two
Instances of Good Reputation--Tall Masts Needed for Great Ships--The
Difference between Greatness on the Inside of a Man, and Great
Appearances on the Outside. Page 395

Worship.

Paramount Importance of Family Services--The Iron Duke's Remark--Sayings
of the Wisest and Best--Scenes in Burned Chicago--Newton and La
Place--Their Testimony--Victor Hugo: "I believe in the Sublimity of
Prayer"--Wordsworth's Apostrophe--Young's Prayer--A Sweet Supplication.
Page 400.

The Atheist.

The Owlet Atheism--Hammer and Tongs used to work in Fire--False Headings
on News--On The Plains of Chaldaea--The Voice of Duty ever in the way of
the Atheist--A Creator Demanded by Reason--The Atheist Lik