es in discovering systems, methods, associations and
surroundings for the students, which are nearest in conjunctive harmony
with natural evolution, consequently along a pathway presenting the
fewest possible obstacles.

CHAPTER XXIV.

A TWENTIETH CENTURY LOVE LETTER.

"All the world loves a lover!" is a trite but beautiful saying, which
touches a responsive chord in the great heart of humanity! We cannot
remain indifferent to the magnetic effect of the strong tide of his
eloquent and impetuous wooing. Nor can we withhold a sympathetic desire
to aid him in reaching the goal of success--to win the precious prize.
Quite as naturally, we are intensely and delightfully interested in the
birth, the unfoldment, and the blossoming of every individual entity in
the great ocean of cosmic life. Instinctively we recognize that love is
life. One could not exist without the other. Old and young alike
understand the potency of the spell which binds the lover; which holds
him for unconscious periods of time, absorbed in dreamy contemplation of
his ecstatic devotion to the heroic virtues, graces, accomplishments and
attributes of the charming woman, whom his heart has chosen to represent
all things in the universe which have meaning and worth for him. Through
this adorable woman, the crowned and glorified object of his
all-absorbing love, he can best respond to the rythmic throbbing of all
cosmic life. In this superior state of beautiful transfiguration, he
forgets self, and lives for long happy months in the rare upper strata
of real unselfishness. Under the powerful influence of pure love, the
highest and holiest emotion which stirs, controls and makes better the
life of every mortal; lost in the blissful alembic of this great
chemical change, the lover recognizes himself in every demonstration of
universal life around him. He also becomes aware, from some inner
consciousness, of the extent to which the emotional nature controls and
molds the individual; that among the anabolic emotions, love is the
queen of the emotional empire; that the touch of her magical scepter is
so potent and penetrating as to render the individual receptive and
responsive to all of the ennobling, purifying, progressive and exalting
elements of the universe: but, on the other hand, what is still more
marvelous: that the same touch renders the individual negative to the
inflowing currents from all of the baser elements. With this awareness
comes the