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(This\nbook was produced from images made available by the\nHathiTrust Digital Library.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                         Universal Brotherhood\n\n\n\n\n                         Universal Brotherhood\n\n                               A MAGAZINE\n                 DEVOTED TO THE BROTHERHOOD OF HUMANITY\n                       THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT\n                       PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE AND ART\n\n             Founded in 1886 under the title of THE PATH by\n                            WILLIAM Q JUDGE\n\n                          VOLUME XIII. No. 11.\n                            FEBRUARY, 1899.\n\n\n\n\n                                CONTENTS\n\n\n           Henry Clay           Alexander Wilder,         585\n                                M.D.\n\n           Richard Wagner\u2019s     Basil Crump               593\n           Prose Works\n\n           Alphonse de          Alexander Wilder,         596\n           Lamartine: IV. 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If this principle were better understood by\nthe multitude or even by certain classes of Society there would be less\nstrife and competition and more sympathy and co-operation.\n\nThe demonstration of these broad ideas from the Ethical, Scientific and\nPractical points of view will prove that there is much agreement between\nthese systems on this topic, and that it is an underlying ground-work by\nmeans of which all Religions and all Philosophies agree also.\n\nThis magazine will endeavor to show the great similarity between the\nReligions of the world, in their fundamental beliefs and doctrines as\nalso the value of studying other systems than our own.\n\nA sound basis for ethics should be found.\n\nThose who would assist the cause of Brotherhood should realize that it\nis of the first importance to discover as much as possible concerning\nthe nature of man and man\u2019s relation to the world around him. The laws\nthat govern his physical, mental, moral and spiritual being should be\nstudied and investigated.\n\nIt is hoped that every sympathizer with the cause of brotherhood will\nendeavor to assist us in enlarging the circulation of this magazine.\nSubscribers will greatly oblige by sending us the names and addresses of\nindividuals known to them as willing to investigate liberal ideas.\n\nAll writers who are interested in the above objects are invited to\ncontribute articles.\n\nIt is in the hands of our readers to push the circulation of UNIVERSAL\nBROTHERHOOD to an almost unlimited extent. =All profits arising from the\npublication of this magazine, or from the business conducted by the\nTheosophical Publishing Co., are devoted to propaganda of Brotherhood.\nAll who assist us in this work are directly helping the great cause of\nhumanity.=\n\n\n\n\nA U M\n\n    \u201cThe Theosophical ideas of charity mean _personal_ exertion for\n    others; _personal_ mercy and kindness; _personal_ interest in the\n    welfare of those who suffer; _personal_ sympathy, forethought and\n    assistance in their troubles or needs.\u201d\u2014H. P. BLAVATSKY, _Key to\n    Theosophy_.\n\n    \u201cTo help men and women to realize the nobility of their calling and\n    their true position in life.\u201d\u2014First Object of the International\n    Brotherhood League.\n\nUNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD\n\n\n\n\n                              HENRY CLAY.\n                       BY ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D.\n\n\n[Illustration: Henry Clay.]\n\nThe illustration of \u201cHenry Clay addressing Congress\u201d exhibits, with\nalmost the exactness of portraits, the likeness of the prominent members\nof the American Senate at that time. It is to be regretted that a key is\nnot given, as several of them, and these not the men of less importance,\nare not at this late period easily recognized. Yet as we look upon their\nfaces here delineated, we feel as if we had known them all.\n\nNaturally our attention is first directed to the figure of the one\naddressing the Senate. The United States will have to pass through\nanother Civil War as destructive of former memories as this one has\nbeen, before Henry Clay can be forgotten. Making his mark upon the\nhistory, legislation and diplomacy of the country, that mark cannot be\nremoved except the heart of the Nation is torn out with it.\n\nThe presiding officer we recognize as Millard Fillmore, once a favorite\nson of New York, and Vice-President in 1849 and 1850; then succeeding to\nthe presidency at the death of General Taylor. Growing up from poverty\nand his few opportunities, he became an accomplished lawyer, a diligent\nlegislator, and a statesman of recognized ability. Comely of person,\ngraceful in manner, and generous in his impulses, he was at the time one\nof the most popular men of Western New York, and continued to be till he\nsigned the measure that operated more than any other to estrange the\ncitizens of the Republic from one another\u2014the Fugitive Slave Act of\n1851.\n\nWe also observe near the speaker General Lewis Cass, then the foremost\nman of the Democratic Party, whose nomination for President in 1852 Mr.\nClay desired and hoped for as most likely to avert the crisis which he\nforesaw. He then lay dying, but to the last the welfare of his Country\nwas at his heart. But General Cass was passed over, and the current\nmoved with renewed force to the final event. For years as Senator and\nCabinet Minister he put forth his energy to arrest its progress, but was\ncompelled to give way overpowered.\n\nOn beyond is John C. Calhoun, with head bent forward, listening\nintently. His, likewise, was a career of remarkable significance in the\nNation. He had entered Congress almost at the same time with Mr. Clay,\nand both in concert with Langdon Cheves and William Lowndes, who seemed\nto have been elected for that purpose, put forth their utmost efforts\nwith success, to procure a declaration of war with Great Britain. The\nmeasure was regarded essential to the continuance of the Republican\nParty in power, and Mr. Madison reluctantly acceded to it, regretting\nhis compliance soon afterward. The next turn of the wheel made Mr.\nCalhoun a Cabinet Minister, and an aspirant for the presidency, for\nwhich he had the support of Daniel Webster. Falling short of that\nambition, he became the champion of State Rights and nullification,\nbringing his native commonwealth to the verge of civil war, and himself\ninto personal peril. Thenceforth he set about educating his people for\nmortal conflict. The attempt to add new territory to this country for\nthe extending of the power of the Southern as against the Northern\nStates, had brought nearer the crisis which Mr. Clay was striving to\navert. It seems almost anachronism to place Mr. Calhoun in this picture,\nfor he died in 1850.\n\nDaniel Webster, however, is the figure soonest recognized. The artist\nhas placed him in a row a little way behind the orator, sitting in a\nthoughtful mood, but leaving us at a loss to surmise whether he is\nattending to the subject under discussion, or meditating upon some topic\nwhich he may esteem to be of profounder importance. He was translated to\nthe Cabinet a second time by President Fillmore, but found himself\nwithout supporters except personal friends and admirers, and estranged\nfrom his political associates. He quickly followed Mr. Clay to the grave\nin 1852.\n\nThe other faces in the picture seem familiar and are carefully depicted.\nWe do not find, however, the \u201cnew men\u201d who had already come as\nprecursors of the next epoch in American history. John P. Hale and\nWilliam H. Seward are left out, and we fail of finding Daniel S.\nDickinson, John Davis or Stephen A. Douglas. Those whom we do see there\nwere undoubtedly regarded as more notable, belonging as they did to an\nera that seems to have passed almost completely into oblivion. For it is\ntrue however discreditable as it may seem, that the events of that time\nand the men of that time are almost as little cognized by Americans of\nthe present generation as though they had been of the period of Magna\nCharta and the Conference of Barons at Runnymede.\n\nThe war with Mexico resulting from the annexation of Texas in 1845, had\neffected the addition of New Mexico and California to the jurisdiction\nof the United States. Legislation was required to provide for the\nexigency. An issue had been introduced by the \u201cWilmot Proviso,\u201d\ndeclaring that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for\ncrime, should exist in the new territory. This issue had decided the\nelection of 1848 giving the Whigs the National Administration. The\norganizing of Oregon with this inhibition had created an alarm. There\nwere fifteen states with slavery and fifteen without, so that each\nregion had an equal number of Senators. This arrangement was now\nimperilled. The contest was very sharp. Mr. Clay apprehending danger to\nthe Union, procured the appointment of a joint Congressional Committee\nto devise measures of pacification. This Committee reported what was\nknown as the \u201cOmnibus Bill,\u201d providing for the admission of California\nas a State, the organization of territorial governments for Utah and New\nMexico, and more effective measures for the rendition of runaway slaves.\n\nIt is apparently in support of this measure that Mr. Clay is speaking.\nThe prominent senators, the supporters of this legislation, are\nlistening. It may be well to add that it did not pass in this form, but\nthat the several propositions thus massed together, were afterward\nenacted in separate bills.\n\n[Illustration: Henry Clay Addressing Congress.]\n\nMr. Clay was always a conspicuous character in American History. His\nmarked personality, his impressive manner, his profound sincerity, his\nunquestioned patriotism, his unblemished public career, his loyal\nfriendship, his ardent sympathy for the helpless and injured, all\ncombined to make him the idol of his party. He was like Agamemnon, a\n\u201cking of men.\u201d Even when defeated, he never lost prestige, but gained in\nthe affection of those who knew him. Ambitious, he certainly was, for he\naspired to the chief office in the Republic, but he stubbornly refused\nto employ unworthy means to secure the prize. When the place was within\nhis grasp, and his supporters were buoyant with assurance of success, he\nput it out of his reach by exuberant frankness. Yet the disappointment\nnever weakened his love of country, and his last efforts were put forth\nto secure harmony in our public councils and to preserve the Nation\nundivided.\n\nHe was the architect of his own fortunes. His early opportunities were\nlimited, and he had never been able to obtain a liberal education. His\nfather was a Baptist preacher, at that time of no account in Virginia,\nand there was no relationship with \u201cfirst families.\u201d Henry Clay was\nstrictly of the people and a son of the people; his blood was intensely\nred, without any tinge of patrician blue. Early left an orphan he ate\nthe bread of poverty, and at a tender age was taught to work for a\nlivelihood, to plough, to dig and labor in the harvest field. He was\ngenerally known in the region as \u201cthe Mill Boy of the Slashes.\u201d\nFortunately for him when he was fourteen years of age, his mother\nmarried a second husband, a man quick to perceive the ability of the\nyouth and to find him opportunity. He was placed for a year in a retail\nstore in Richmond, and afterward in the office of the clerk of the High\nCourt of Chancery.\n\nA biographer describes him at this period as raw-boned, lank and\nawkward, with a countenance by no means handsome, and dressed in\ngarments home-made and ill-fitting, with linen starched to such a\nstiffness as to make him look peculiarly strange and uncomfortable. As\nhe took his place at the desk to copy papers, his new companions\ntittered at his appearance, and his blushing confusion. They soon\nlearned to like him, however, and he was found to be a faithful and\nindustrious worker. He read incessantly during his hours of leisure but\nunfortunately acquired a habit of cursory perusing, a \u201cskimming over\u201d\nwhich he never conquered, and which seriously interfered with\nthoroughness. This became afterward to him a source of profound regret.\n\nHis diligence at work attracted the attention of the Chancellor, George\nWythe, who selected him for amanuensis to write out and record the\ndecisions of the Court. This was the turning point of his career. Wythe\nwas a signer of the Declaration of Independence and member of the\nConvention that framed the Federal Constitution. He believed in what he\npromulgated, emancipating his slaves and making provision for their\nsubsisting. Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall had been his students.\nThe four years thus spent there decided Clay to become a lawyer, and he\nentered the office of Robert Brooke the Attorney-General as a regular\nstudent. A year later he received the license to practice. At the age of\ntwenty he set out for Kentucky to seek his fortune, making his residence\nat Lexington then styled \u201cthe literary and intellectual centre of the\nWest.\u201d\n\nHe became, like all Southern men of note, a politician, and quickly\ngained distinction as a speaker. In 1797 a Convention was held to revise\nthe Constitution of the State, and he labored assiduously, but without\nsuccess to procure the adoption of a system of emancipation. He saved\nhis popularity, however, by vigorously declaring against the Alien and\nSedition Laws of Congress. So much easier is it to resent and deplore\nthe wrongs that others commit than to repent of those we commit\nourselves. Mr. Clay was from this time a champion of the helpless and\nthe wronged. It required personal as well as moral courage. There were\nmen in Kentucky who regarded themselves as leaders in Society and above\nbeing held to account for unworthy and lawless acts. Colonel Joseph\nDaviess, then District Attorney of the United States and a Federalist,\nperpetrated a brutal assault upon a private citizen. Everybody feared\nhim but Mr. Clay. He took the matter boldly up. Daviess warned him to\ndesist, but was unable to frighten him even by a challenge to a duel.\nWith like sentiment toward a man that he conceived to be wronged, he\nbecame a defender of Aaron Burr, but on learning of deception he refused\nfurther friendly relations.\n\nAfter a period of service in the Legislature, Mr. Clay was chosen to\nfill an unexpired term in the Senate at Washington and took his seat in\nDecember, 1806, when under thirty years of age. He seems to have paid\nlittle heed to the unwritten law of reticence, but took active part in\nspeaking and legislating. He advocated the projects of a bridge across\nthe Potomac, and also roads and canals to facilitate communication\nbetween the Atlantic Seaboard and the region west of the Allegheny\nMountains. A monument near Wheeling commemorates his support of the\nCumberland Road.\n\nPolitical opinions then current have a curious flavor now. Many\nquestioned the constitutionality of such legislation. The establishment\nof a Navy was opposed. The Barbary States received tribute year by year\nfor abstaining from piracy on American Commerce. Great Britain, claiming\nto be mistress of the seas, took some six thousand seamen from merchant\nvessels to serve in her Navy, and confiscated goods that were shipped to\nEuropean markets. France, likewise, issued decrees of forfeiture; and\nall the defense attempted was an embargo forbidding American vessels to\nleave port. Spain pretended that her possessions in West Florida\nextended to the Mississippi River, and the Federalists in Congress\ndenounced the action of President Madison to hold that region as being a\nspoliation of a helpless and unoffending power.\n\nMr. Clay had just come again to the Senate. Although the youngest member\nhe was foremost in sustaining vigorous action. \u201cI have no commiseration\nfor princes,\u201d said he; \u201cmy sympathies are reserved for the great mass of\nmankind, and I own that the people of Spain have them most sincerely.\u201d\n\nThen he turned upon the great sensitiveness exhibited toward Great\nBritain. \u201cThis phantom has too much influence on the councils of the\nNation,\u201d he declared. \u201cI most sincerely desire peace and amity with\nEngland; I even prefer an adjustment of differences with her before one\nwith any other Nation. But if she persists in a denial of justice to us,\nor if she avails herself of the occupation in West Florida to commence\nwar upon us, I trust and hope that all hearts will unite in a bold and\nvigorous vindication of our rights.\u201d\n\nMr. Clay next appears as Speaker of the House of Representatives in\n1811. The House was more to his liking than the Senate; it was at that\ntime a debating body not dominated as it is now by Committees appointed\nby the Presiding Officer. He was vehement in demanding preparations for\nwar with England, and talked of terms of peace to be dictated at\nHalifax. The President was timid, and the North and East opposed; but a\ndeclaration was made, and Mr. Madison proposed to make Mr. Clay\nCommander-in-chief. This he declined. There was a likelihood of cabals\nin Congress like those which assailed General Washington in the\nRevolution. The Navy saved the credit of the Nation, which the Army\nfailed to sustain, and with that it averted a peril of disunion.\n\nNegotiations for peace were held at Ghent. Mr. Clay, as one of the\nCommissioners, yielded a reluctant consent to the treaty. He would not\nvisit England till he heard of the Battle of New Orleans, but he went to\nParis.\n\nIn an interview with Madame de Stael, she spoke of the exasperation in\nEngland and the serious intentions of sending the Duke of Wellington to\nAmerica. \u201cI wish they had,\u201d said Clay. \u201cWhy?\u201d she asked. \u201cBecause,\u201d said\nhe, \u201cIf he had beaten us we should only have been in the condition of\nEurope, without disgrace. But if we had been so fortunate as to defeat\nhim, we should have greatly added to the renown of our arms.\u201d\n\nThis conversation was repeated to the Duke, who at once remarked that he\nwould have regarded a victory over the Americans as a greater honor than\nany which he had ever achieved. He also praised the American Peace\nCommissioners as having shown more ability than those of England.\n\nHenceforth, Mr. Clay remained in his own country. Mr. Madison tendered\nhim the mission to Russia but he declined. He then offered him the\nportfolio of the War Department. But Mr. Clay chose rather to return to\nthe House of Representatives and was again elected Speaker.\n\nHe was now himself a leader; the men who had been at the head of the\nRepublican Party from the time of Washington, were passing from\nsupremacy. The war had developed new necessities and new views of\npolitical subjects, and new men were taking hold of public service. What\nhad been denounced in 1810 became the policy of 1816; the Federal party\npassed away, for its leaders had offended the nation, and the new\nRepublicans had adopted their principal measures. We now find Henry Clay\nand John C. Calhoun still hand in hand, with Daniel Webster the\nUnion-lover and John Randolph the Union-hater in opposition, and the\nPresident still holding the old traditions.\n\nThe conditions of affairs in South America was the occasion of a bill\nfor more strict enforcing of neutrality. Mr. Clay dissented from the\nmeasure. The ignorance and superstition imputed to the people of the\nSpanish provinces, he insisted, was due to the tyranny and oppression,\nhierarchic and political, under which they groaned. Their independence\nwas the first step toward improving their condition. \u201cLet them have free\ngovernment if they are capable of enjoying it,\u201d said he; \u201cbut let them,\nat all events, have independence. I may be accused of an imprudent\nutterance of my feelings on this occasion. I care not. When the\nindependence, the happiness, the liberty of a whole people is at stake,\nand that people our neighbors, occupy a portion of the same continent,\nimitating our example and participating of the same sympathies with\nourselves, I will boldly avow my feelings and my wishes in their behalf,\neven at the hazard of such an imputation.\u201d\n\nHe had exulted at the victory of New Orleans by a Western General in a\nWestern State. But when General Jackson in the Seminole War, enlisted\nvolunteers again without civil authority, invaded Florida, decoyed\nIndian Chiefs into his camp by a flag of truce and put them to death,\nbesides executing two British subjects, Mr. Clay denounced his acts as a\ndisregard of every principle of honor, humanity and justice. He was,\nhowever, again in advance of popular sentiment.\n\nThe proposed admission of Missouri to the Union as a Slave State became\nan issue for several years. It was a question whether there should\ncontinue as before an equal number of Free and Slave States, so as to\nassure the latter a safeguard in the Senate. It was interest on one side\nand sentiment on the other. The excitement was so intense as to threaten\nthe Union itself. Dissolution was actually considered. The matter was\nfinally determined by a vote to admit Missouri but to exclude slavery\nfrom all the region west of it and north of its southern boundary line.\nIn this controversy Mr. Clay acted with the Southern Congressmen, and by\nhis sagacity as Speaker, the measure was made sure: the conflict,\nhowever, to be again renewed a third of a century later, transforming\nthe politics of a Nation.\n\nNone of Mr. Clay\u2019s speeches on this question were published. He had been\nconstrained by the voice of his State and fears for the safety of the\nUnion, but he was not willing to appear before his countrymen and\nposterity in the lurid light of sustaining slavery.\n\nThe revolt in Greece enlisted the sympathy of all America. Meetings were\nheld to declare the prevailing sentiment. Albert Gallatin even proposed\nto aid with a naval force. Mr. Webster offered a resolution in Congress\nauthorizing a Commissioner to be sent to that country. Mr. Clay\nsupported the motion in his Demosthenean style. After portraying the\nsituation, he added the challenge: \u201cGo home if you can; go home if you\ndare, to your constituents, and tell them that you voted this\nproposition down; meet if you can, the appalling countenances of those\nwho sent you here, and tell them that you shrank from the declaration of\nyour own sentiments; that you can not tell how, but that some unknown\ndread, some indescribable apprehension, some indefinable danger, drove\nyou away from your purpose; that the spectres of cimiters, and crowns,\nand crescents, gleamed before you and alarmed you; and that you\nsuppressed all the noble feelings prompted by religion, by liberty, by\nnational independence, and by humanity.\u201d\n\nMr. Clay had been already placed in the field as a candidate for\nPresident, and this temerity astonished his supporters. He had enemies,\nlikewise, to take advantage of his excitable temper, to irritate him to\npersonal altercation. John Randolph was conspicuous. He taunted Mr. Clay\nfor his defective education. \u201cI know my deficiencies,\u201d Mr. Clay replied.\n\u201cI was born to no patrimonial estate; from my father I inherited only\ninfancy, ignorance and indigence. I feel my defects; but so far as my\nsituation in early life is concerned, I may without presumption say they\nare more my misfortune than my fault.\u201d\n\nThere were no political parties in 1824; all were Republicans, and the\ncontest was simply between men. Mr. Clay was approached with\npropositions such as would now be considered legitimate. He refused to\nenter into any arrangements or make any promise or pledge. There was no\nchoice effected by the Electors. In the Legislature of Louisiana,\nadvantage was taken of the absence of members to deprive him of the vote\nof that State. He was thus deprived of the opportunity of an election by\nthe House of Representatives. It so happened, however, that the decision\nwas in his hands, and he gave his vote to John Quincy Adams. The two had\ndiffered widely and with temper, but of Mr. Adams\u2019 superior fitness\nthere was no possible question. In political matters he never rewarded a\nfriend nor punished an adversary. He administered every trust\nconscientiously. Mr. Clay became his Secretary of State. It was an\nadministration which the Nation would like to witness again. The honor\nof the Nation was sustained; the country was prosperous beyond former\nperiods. What may now appear incredible, there were twenty-four states\nin the Union, yet the public expenditures barely exceeded eleven million\ndollars a year.\n\nThe endeavor to effect a friendly alliance with the new Spanish-American\nRepublics was unsuccessful. When Bolivar wrote Mr. Clay a letter\nacknowledging his good offices, he replied with a gentle remonstrance\nagainst the establishing of an arbitrary dictatorship. He was\ndisappointed in his hopes and expectations. Mr. Adams had judged those\nmen better than he. In diplomacy Mr. Clay aimed at reciprocity in\ncommercial matters. He advised the recognition of Hayti likewise, as a\nsovereign State.\n\nHe also became one of the chief supporters of the African Colonization\nSociety. He believed it possible to remove a sufficient number of free\nnegroes to reduce sensibly the number of the colored population, and\nbring about gradual emancipation. \u201cIf,\u201d said he, \u201cI could be\ninstrumental in eradicating this deepest stain upon the character of our\ncountry, and removing all cause of reproach on account of it by foreign\nnations; if I could only be instrumental in ridding of this foul blot\nthat revered State that gave me birth, or that not less beloved State\nwhich kindly adopted me as her son, I would not exchange the proud\nsatisfaction which I should enjoy for the honor of all the triumphs ever\ndecreed to the most successful conqueror.\u201d\n\nIn 1828 a new administration and a newly organized political party were\nchosen. Mr. Clay returned to Kentucky. But defeat never lessened his\nhold upon his friends. In 1831 Daniel Webster, voicing the sentiment of\nthem all, wrote to him: \u201cWe need your arm in the fight. It would be an\ninfinite gratification to me to have your aid, or rather your lead.\u201d\n\nReluctantly he obeyed. He took his seat in the Senate more heartily\nwelcomed by his friends, more bitterly hated by his enemies, than ever\nbefore. From this time he was more conservative. He was henceforth the\nopposer of aggression, the pacificator for the sake of the Union. He was\nagain nominated for President by the Republicans in 1832. Some years\nlater the opposition united to form the Whig Party, but although he was\nits acknowledged leader, the anti-masonic influence gave the nomination\nin 1840 to Gen. Wm. H. Harrison. He was, however, again nominated in\n1844 and apparently certain of election till a letter was published in\nwhich he spoke of the proposed annexation of Texas in ambiguous terms\nwhich disaffected anti-slavery voters enough to defeat him. He had\nretired from the Senate two years before, but came back under the new\nadministration. He foresaw peril to the Republic, and now hoped to be\nable to stay the tide. But it was only temporary.\n\nHis personal appearance, as represented in the picture, was unique. He\nwas tall and thin, though muscular; and there was an entire absence of\neverything like stiffness or haughtiness. His manner was cordial and\nkind, inviting rather than repelling approach. His eyes were dark gray,\nsmall, and when excited they flashed with striking vividness. His\nforehead was high and broad. His mouth was large, but expressive of\ngenius and energy. His voice was silvery, deep-toned, and exquisitely\nmodulated. When speaking, he threw his soul into the subject, carrying\nalong the souls of the hearers, making them assent or dissent as he did.\nHe spoke as the patriot warrior of a thousand battles would speak; and\ndespite the enmity and rancor which pursued him with fiendish\nbitterness, the men opposed to him mourned with his friends when he was\nno more a denizen of earth.\n\n\n\n\n                     RICHARD WAGNER\u2019S PROSE WORKS.\n                            BY BASIL CRUMP.\n                               VOLUME I.\n\n\nThe world knows Richard Wagner as a daring musical genius; a few know\nhim as a poet who wrote the poems for his own dramas; fewer still know\nhim as a writer, philosopher and mystic. His voluminous prose works are\nbeing translated into English by Mr. W. Ashton Ellis, of the London\nbranch of the Wagner Society, and the work will be completed by the end\nof the century. When these writings become familiar to the reading\npublic, Wagner will be much better understood than he is now; the vast\nscope of his work, and its harmonious relation to other universal\nschemes of work which make for the elevation of the human race, will be\nmore fully recognized. Then the narrow and ignorant criticisms of a\nNordau or a Tolstoi, will have no foothold in the mind of an enlightened\npublic.\n\nIn the previous series of articles entitled \u201cRichard Wagner\u2019s Music\nDramas,\u201d my purpose was to throw some light on the inner meaning of\nthose dramas. In doing this some quotations were made from the prose\nwritings, where Wagner has made actual explanations or thrown out hints\nof his meaning. In dealing with the prose works themselves, my aim will\nbe to show the basis of Wagner\u2019s reform in the field of dramatic art,\nand the great motives which led him to strike out a totally new path.\nAnd here at the outset let me say that no brief review of these volumes\ncan possibly convey any clear conception of their contents; it will\ntherefore be necessary to devote several of these articles to the more\nimportant essays. The volume with which I am about to deal opens with an\n\n\n                         AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCH.\n\nWagner wrote this in 1843, at the request of a German editor. In it we\nsee the germs of his future genius, and I will select such details as\nserve to indicate them. Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born at Leipzig on\nMay 22, 1813, and learnt to play a little on the piano at the age of\nseven. Two years later, when the family migrated to Dresden, he used to\nwatch Weber \u201cwith a reverent awe,\u201d as the composer of _Der Freisch\u00fctz_\npassed to and fro to rehearsals. Thereupon his piano exercises were\nspeedily neglected in favor of the overture to _Der Freisch\u00fctz_ executed\n\u201cwith the most fearful fingering.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut this music-strumming was quite a secondary matter: Greek, Latin,\nmythology and ancient history were my principal studies.\u201d At this time\nhe wrote some prize verses on the death of a schoolfellow. \u201cI was then\neleven years old. I promptly determined to become a poet, and sketched\nout tragedies on the model of the Greeks.\u201d He also translated twelve\nbooks of the Odyssey, and learnt English in order to study Shakespeare.\n\u201cI projected a grand tragedy which was almost nothing but a medley of\n_Hamlet_ and _King Lear_. The plan was gigantic in the extreme;\ntwo-and-forty human beings died in the course of this piece, and I saw\nmyself compelled in its working out to call the greater number back as\nghosts, otherwise I should have been short of characters for my last\nacts.\u201d\n\nBeing removed to the Leipzig _Nikolaischule_ he there for the first time\ncame into contact with Beethoven\u2019s genius; \u201cits impression upon me was\noverpowering.... Beethoven\u2019s music to _Eg-mont_ so much inspired me,\nthat I determined\u2014for all the world\u2014not to allow my now completed\ntragedy to leave the stocks until provided with suchlike music. Without\nthe slightest diffidence, I believed that I could myself write this\nneedful music, but thought it better to first clear up a few of the\ngeneral principles of thorough-bass.... But this study did not bear such\nrapid fruit as I had expected: its difficulties both provoked and\nfascinated me; I resolved to become a musician.\u201d\n\nThus far we see the embryo poet-musician. In his sixteenth year the\nmysticism in his nature was roused by a study of E. A. Hoffmann: \u201cI had\nvisions by day in semi-slumber, in which the \u2018Keynote,\u2019 \u2018Third,\u2019 and\n\u2018Dominant\u2019 seemed to take on living form and reveal to me their mighty\nmeaning.\u201d These visions are curiously confirmed by the scientific\nphenomena of Chladni\u2019s sand figures and the sound forms of Mrs. Watts\nHughes. The fact that sound is the means through which all form is\nproduced is a very old teaching. Pythagoras, who brought the art of\nmusic from India to Greece, taught that the Universe was evolved out of\nchaos by the power of sound and constructed according to the principles\nof musical proportion.\n\nAbout this time Wagner seriously studied Counterpoint under Theodor\nWeinlig. In less than six months he was dismissed as perfect. \u201cWhat you\nhave made by this dry study,\u201d he said to his youthful pupil, \u201cwe call\n\u2018Self-dependence.\u2019\u201d In 1832 he composed \u201can opera-book of tragic\ncontents: _Die Hochzeit_\u201d; his sister disapproved of the work and he at\nonce destroyed it, although some of the music was already written. _Die\nFeen_ (The Fairies) followed in the next year and was the first of his\ncompleted operatic works. At the age of twenty-one he tells us: \u201cI had\nemerged from abstract Mysticism, and I learnt a love for Matter.\u201d The\nresult was _Das Liebesverbot_ founded on Shakespeare\u2019s _Measure for\nMeasure_, in which \u201cfree and frank physicalism\u201d prevails over\n\u201cPuritanical hypocrisy.\u201d\n\nThis wild mood soon ceased under the pressure of petty cares; in 1836 he\nmarried the woman whose devotion helped him through so many years of\nbitter struggle. The following year he began his first large work,\n_Rienzi_, and became musical director at the Riga theatre. The poem was\nfinished in 1838, and in 1839 when the music was nearly completed,\nWagner embarked with his wife and his beloved big dog on board a sailing\nship bound for London _en route_ for Paris. His object was to get\n_Rienzi_ performed there, but despite the influence of Meyerbeer he was\ndoomed to disappointment and found himself stranded there in the utmost\npoverty. This, as we shall see from an essay later in the volume, was\nthe turning-point in his life; but we have now to consider the next\nessay, the famous\n\n\n                          ART AND REVOLUTION.\n\nThe main theme of this fine article is the relation of Art to the\nUniversal Brotherhood of Man. It is prefaced by an introduction written\nin 1872 which begins with Carlyle\u2019s trenchant words on \u201cthat universal\nBurning-up, as in hell-fire, of Human Shams.\u201d Wagner goes on to explain\nhow the essay was written \u201cin the feverish excitement of the year 1849.\u201d\nThis was the revolution which cost him so many years of painful exile at\nParis and Z\u00fcrich. He says he was guided by an ideal which he thought of\nas \u201cembodied in a Folk that should represent the incomparable might of\nancient brotherhood, while I looked forward to the perfect evolution of\nthis principle as the very essence of the associate Manhood of the\nFuture.\u201d\n\nAfter some explanations of certain technical words which might be\nmisunderstood, Wagner introduces us to the essay itself. He begins by\nsaying that the essence of Modern Art is only a link in a chain of\ncauses started by the Ancient Greeks. The Grecian spirit found its\nfullest expression in the god Apollo: \u201cIt was Apollo,\u2014he who had slain\nthe Python, the dragon of Chaos ... who was the fulfiller of the will of\nZeus upon the Grecian earth; who was, in fact, the Grecian people.\u201d\nProceeding then to connect Dance and Song, as inseparable elements in\nearly Greek Art, he says: \u201cThus, too, inspired by Dionysus,[1] the\ntragic poet saw this glorious god; when to all the rich elements of\nspontaneous art ... he joined the bond of speech, and concentrating them\nall into one focus, brought forth the highest conceivable form of\nart\u2014the DRAMA.\u201d\n\nThat this Drama was a religious teacher connected with the Mysteries is\nvery clearly brought out, and Wagner draws a fine picture of one of\nthose great sacred days when thirty thousand people assembled to witness\n\u201cthat most pregnant of all tragedies, the _Prometheus_; in this titanic\nmasterpiece to see the image of themselves, to read the riddle of their\nown actions, and to fuse their own being and their own communion with\nthat of their god.\u201d\n\nHow fell this glorious Tragedy? \u201cAs the spirit of _Community_ split\nitself along a thousand lives of egoistic cleavage, so was the great\nunited work of Tragedy disintegrated into its individual factors.\u201d For\ntwo thousand years since then Art has given way to Philosophy; but \u201cTrue\nArt is highest freedom\u201d and can only arise out of freedom.\n\nThen follows a splendid description of the brutal materialism of the\nRomans which hangs to this very day like a pall about her ruins: \u201cThey\nloved to revel in concrete and open bloodthirstiness.\u201d Mutual slavery of\nEmperor and people was the result, and \u201cself-contempt, disgust with\nexistence, horror of community\u201d found their expression in Christianity.\nBut this Christianity of Constantine Wagner is careful to distinguish\nfrom the teaching of \u201cthe humble son of the Galilean carpenter; who,\nlooking on the misery of his fellow-men, proclaimed that he had not come\nto bring peace, but a sword into the world; whom we must love for the\nanger with which he thundered forth against the hypocritical Pharisees\nwho fawned upon the power of Rome; ... and finally who preached the\nreign of universal human love.\u201d In short, one might say that Jesus and\nhis teaching stood in the same relation to the later Christianity as\nDionysus and the early pure mysteries to the later degraded and\nmaterialized Bacchic mysteries.\n\nThen in a very fine passage Wagner indicts Modern Art, based, as it is,\non fame and gain and serving all the lower needs of a debased public\ntaste. The Drama is separated into Play and Opera; the one losing its\nidealizer\u2014Music,\u2014the other, its dramatic aim and end: \u201cWhat serves it\nus, that _Shakespeare_, like a second Creator, has opened for us the\nendless realm of human nature? What serves it, that _Beethoven_ has lent\nto Music the manly, independent strength of Poetry? Ask the threadbare\ncaricatures of your theatres, ask the street-minstrel commonplaces of\nyour operas: and ye have your answer!\u201d\n\nThink of it! This was written half a century ago, and in spite of it the\nMusic Hall more than ever sways the masses, and the cheap inanities of\nthe comic opera are the rage with the rest of the community. I shall\nreview the remainder of this essay in the next article.\n\n(_To be continued._)\n\nFootnote 1:\n\n  Dionysus was the productive or bountiful power of Nature, and the\n  earlier and pure conception of him was of a beauteous but manly\n  figure, attended by the Graces and presiding over dramatic\n  representations of Nature\u2019s mysteries. It was only in later times that\n  he appeared as Bacchus, the God of wine and intoxication, attended by\n  Bacchantes, and presiding over sensual and drunken orgies.\n\n\n\n\n                         ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.\n                     IV. POET, DIPLOMAT, TRAVELLER.\n\n\nLamartine spent two winters at Paris after the Restoration. His former\nacquaintances were scattered, and he had new ones to make. He was for a\ntime solitary and little occupied. He was, nevertheless, resolute in his\nquest for an opening into public life. His friend Virieu and others\nintroduced him to persons of distinction and one step led presently to\nanother. The passion for literature served to place him on a friendly\nfooting with others of similar tastes, and he became able after a while\nto enumerate among his acquaintances Chateaubriand, the \u201cNapoleon of\nFrench literature,\u201d Lamennais, the French Savonarola, Rocher, Aim\u00e9\nMartin, De Vigny.\n\nThe epoch of the Restoration was also the epoch of the Revival of\nLetters in France. The Revolution had sent scholars and literary men to\nthe scaffold or driven them into exile, and Bonaparte had attempted to\nlevel all learning and philosophic culture to the plane of physical and\nmathematical science. Whatever might elevate the human soul was not\ntolerated. He aspired to restore the Sixteenth century at the end of the\nEighteenth and required literature to be adapted to that end.\n\nLouis XVIII. was always broad and liberal in his sentiments, and even\nbefore the Revolution he had cherished familiar relations with literary\nmen and men of learning. His long term of enforced leisure, during his\nabsence from France, and a weakness in his limbs which compelled him to\nsedentary life, had tended to deepen his interest in such pursuits. He\nwas emphatically a king of the fireside.\n\nThe emigrants that returned with him to France, had but imperfectly\napprehended the change. Those most bigoted formed a coterie around the\nCount D\u2019Artois; others endeavored to qualify the action of the King.\nHence the court was a combination of old royalty with a new order of\nthings.\n\nA galaxy of stars of the first magnitude was now shining in France.\nNaturally Lamartine was dazzled by them when he came to Paris. Observing\nthat several young men were recognized in the literary world, he again\ncherished the notion of publishing.\n\nWhile himself without employment he conceived the plan of a long poem\nand actually wrote several cantos. It was to be the history of a human\nsoul and its migrations through successive terms of existence and forms\nof experience till its eventual reunion to the Centre of the Universe,\nGod.\n\nHe also projected and began several other compositions. He labored\nincessantly to perfect his style, till it became, though diffuse, a\nmodel of elegance, energy and correctness.\n\nHe had from time to time written verses to which he gave the title of\n_Meditations_. Friends slyly pilfered these, and gave copies to ladies\nof their acquaintance. These passed from hand to hand till they came to\nthe table of Talleyrand himself. The prince greatly admired them and his\npraises were repeated to the Marquise de Raigecourt. This lady had been\nan intimate friend of the Princess Elizabeth. Lamartine had been\nintroduced to her by the Count de Virieu, and she took a motherly\ninterest in his welfare. Yet he could not bring himself to go to the\nCourt. \u201cI was born wild and free,\u201d he says for himself, \u201cand I did not\nlike to bend down in order to rise.\u201d\n\nFrom 1815 to 1818 when at home, he composed several tragedies\u2014Med\u00e9e, one\nrelating to the Crusades, and Saul. He had a hope that by them he might\ngain some celebrity and perhaps contribute something to the fortune of\nhis parents and sisters. He completed them in the spring of 1818, and\nhaving copied them in a plain hand hurried with them to Paris. He\nsolicited an interview with Talma who granted it at once.\n\nOn invitation, he read extracts from the tragedy entitled Saul. The\ngreat tragedian listened attentively, and was for some time silent. His\nfirst words were: \u201cYoung man, I have desired to know you for twenty\nyears. You would have been my poet. But it is too late. You are coming\nto the world and I am going from it.\u201d\n\nHe then requested Lamartine to tell him frankly, as a son to a father,\nhis personal history, his family relations, and his wishes.\n\nThis he did and told how he had desired to work, to come out of his\nobscurity, to produce something that would be an honor to the name of\nhis father and a comfort to the heart of his mother. He had thought of\nTalma. He had written several tragedies, of which this was a specimen.\n\n\u201cWill you be good enough,\u201d he implored, \u201cto hold out your hand and help\nme succeed by the stage?\u201d\n\nTears stood in Talma\u2019s eyes. He praised the work, and declared that in\nthe reign of Louis XIV. it would have won applause. But now, tragedy had\nbeen superseded, in general estimation, by the drama. He counselled\nLamartine to study Shakespeare, to forget art and study nature.\n\nWhen Lamartine came again to Paris the next winter, he asked him to\nwrite for the stage. But Lamartine coveted a public rather than a\nliterary career, and applied to M. Pasquier, the Minister of Foreign\nAffairs, for a diplomatic appointment.\n\nHe was now present at the _salons_ or drawing-room parties of the\nDuchess de Raigecourt, the Duchess de Broglie, Madame de Stael\u2019s\ndaughter, Madame de Ste. Aulaire, Madame de Montcalm, the sister of the\nDuke de Richelieu. At these he was introduced to persons of distinction.\nMadame de Sainte Aulaire, who had a divining faculty for discerning\nyoung persons who were destined to achieve a career, took a warm\ninterest in his behalf. She invited him to read several pages of his\nunpublished verses, and afterward encouraged him to print them. He was\nthen recovering from a severe illness. Booksellers, however, objected to\nthe novelty of the style, and he was able only by obstinate perseverance\nto induce one to undertake the risk.\n\nNow Lamartine was harassed by a new apprehension. The book, whether it\nbroke like an egg by falling to the ground, or proved a successful\nventure, was liable, although anonymous, to be a source of perplexing\ncomplications. The notion of specialties in work was current, and the\nfact of being an author and writer of verses, might be an obstacle to\nhis hopes.\n\nMadame de St. Aulaire was a relative of the minister, M. Decazes. She\nand her husband put forth their influence with the Government in his\nbehalf.\n\nAbout the same time, M. Jules Janin, then at the beginning of his\ncareer, finding a copy of the _Meditations_ at a book-store, purchased\nit out of curiosity. He found to his astonishment, a new style of\npoetry; that it admirably depicted the sentiments of the soul and\npassions of the heart, the joys of earth and the ecstasies of heaven,\nthe hopes of the present and apprehensions of the future. He wrote a\nlong review, which served to arouse the attention of the literary and\nbook-reading public and to create a prodigious demand. Forty-five\nthousand copies were sold in the next four years, and its author was\nspeedily ranked with Byron, Goethe and Chateaubriand, then the\ndistinguished poets of the period. He had originated a new style of\npoetry.\n\n\n                         DAY-BREAK OF FORTUNE.\n\nMeanwhile Lamartine was sadly awaiting events at his modest quarters and\nfearing for the fate and effects of his little publication. As he was in\nbed one morning in the first month of spring, the janitor\u2019s daughter, a\ngirl of twelve or fourteen years, opened the door of the room. It was\ntoo early for the morning newspaper. Smiling intelligently, she threw on\nthe bed a little billet having an enormous seal of red wax. There was\nupon it, Lamartine remarks, \u201can imprint of a coat of arms that ought to\nbe illustrious, for it was undecipherable.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhy do you smile so knowingly, Lucy?\u201d he asked, as he broke the seal\nand tore off the envelope.\n\n\u201cBecause,\u201d said she, \u201cmamma told me that the letter had been brought in\nthe early morning by a chasseur all laced with gold, having a beautiful\nfeather in his hat, and that he had urgently desired that the note\nshould be delivered to you as soon as you awoke, because his mistress\nhad told him: \u2018Go quickly; we must not delay the joy and perhaps the\nfortune of the young man.\u2019\u201d\n\nThere were two separate epistles. One was written by the Polish Princess\nT.... She was a sister of the unfortunate Prince Poniatowski who was\ndrowned while directing the retreat at the battle of Leipsic. Lamartine\ndid not know her and the letter was not addressed to him but to M.\nAlain, his friend and physician. M. Alain had been for six years the\nphysician and friend of M. de Talleyrand, and during Lamartine\u2019s illness\nhe had cared for him like a mother rather than as a medical attendant.\nHe is depicted as being as tender as learned. Lamartine describes him as\nmost true, good, and generous.\n\nThe letter of the princess had been written and despatched before\ndaybreak, and was as follows:\u2014\u201cThe Prince de Talleyrand sent me at my\nwaking this note. I address it for your friend, in order that the\npleasure which this impression of the great judge will bring you shall\nbe doubled. Communicate this note of the Prince to the young man[2] and\nthank me for the pleasure which I am giving you, for I know that your\nsole delight is in the joy of those whom you love.\u201d\n\nLamartine opened the second note. It was written upon a scrap of paper\nabout five fingers in dimension, spotted with ink, and in a hand\nevidently hurried and showing signs of fatigue from want of sleep. It\nbegan as follows:\u2014\u201cI send you, princess, before I go to sleep the little\nvolume which you lent me last night. Let it suffice you to know that I\nhave not slept, and that I have been reading till four o\u2019clock in the\nmorning so as to read it over again.\u201d\n\nThe rest of the note was a prediction of Lamartine\u2019s success, in terms\nof the most fulsome character. Talleyrand was often oracular, and his\nforeknowledge seemed almost infallible.[3] \u201cThe soul of the old man has\nbeen said to be of ice,\u201d Lamartine remarks, \u201cbut it glowed all one night\nwith the enthusiasm of twenty years, and this fire had been kindled by\ncertain pages of verses which were by no means complete but which were\nverses of love.\u201d\n\n\u201cI read the letter of Prince Talleyrand twenty times over,\u201d says\nLamartine. \u201cThe young girl meanwhile was waiting and watching me as I\nread and read again, and she blushed with emotion as she beheld it in my\nface. \u2018Come, my little Lucy, and let me kiss you,\u2019 said I. \u2018You will\nnever bring me a message equal to this. In the lottery of glory children\ndraw the successful lots. Tell your mother that you have brought me a\n_quine_.\u2019\u201d[4]\n\nLamartine\u2019s book was thus placed in the lottery of fortune, and the name\nof Talleyrand had been called. The great statesman was not in public\nlife at that time, but he was far-seeing, and his scent of public\nmatters was well-nigh infallible. He had no interest to flatter the\nunknown writer, and Lamartine accepted his assurances as a favorable\naugury.\n\nSurely enough, little Lucy, a quarter of an hour later, brought another\nletter in a large official envelope. Lamartine\u2019s friends had been\nsuccessful in their pleadings, and this was his nomination, signed by M.\nPasquier, to the post which he desired on the Legation to Florence.\n\nAt the reading of this document, Lamartine was for a time unable to\nrestrain his emotions. He leaped down from the bed, he tells us, and in\nother ways exhibited his delight. He was not content, however, to exult\nin his actual good fortune, but immediately began to extend his\nimagination further.\n\n\u201cI experienced what the shackled courser does when the course is\nopened,\u201d says he. \u201cI had little mind for the glory of verses, but I did\nhave an unbounded passion for political activity. Already I began to\nlook beyond the long years that separated me from the tribune and field\nof higher statesmanship.\n\n\u201cThis was my true and entire vocation, although my friends think and my\nenemies say otherwise. I felt that mine was not the powerful creative\norganization that constitutes great poets; all my talent was of the\nheart only. But I did feel in me an accuracy of view, an effective power\nof reasoning, an energy of honest principle, which make statesmen. I had\nsomewhat of the quality of Mirabeau in the reserved mental forces of my\nbeing. Fortune and France have since decided otherwise. But Nature knows\nmore than Fortune and France; the one is blind, the other is jealous.\u201d\n\nNevertheless, Lamartine continued to write verses, and his prose\npublications are more or less interspersed with poetic productions. He\npraised his friends, he commemorated those whom he loved in poems. Years\nafterward in his story of his journey to the Holy Land, he made this\ndeclaration: \u201cLife for my mind has always been a great poem, as for my\nheart it has been love. GOD, LOVE and POESIE, are the three words which\nI shall desire to be engraved alone upon my monument if I ever deserve a\nmonument.\u201d\n\nWhile he was sitting in a mystic reverie one evening at Florence, he\nheard a melodious voice murmur in his ear some lines from the\n_Meditations_, which are rendered as follows:\n\n                  \u201cPerchance the future may reserve for me\n                    A happiness whose hope I now resign:\n                  Perchance amid the busy world may be\n                    Some soul responsive still to mine.\u201d\n\nHe was also a member of the Legation to England and afterward became\nSecretary to the French Embassy at Naples. In 1824 he was appointed\nCharg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires to Tuscany, and remained in that position five years.\nHe made the acquaintance of Louis Bonaparte, the former King of Holland,\nwho was a scientist and philosopher rather than a statesman. Queen\nHortense also attempted to have an interview with him, but this he\ncarefully evaded. His mother, however, was a relative of the wife of\nLucien Bonaparte and he met several members of that family under\ncircumstances somewhat romantic. Pierre Bonaparte was with him at Paris\nin the Revolution of 1848.\n\nHis older uncle died in 1823, and he became heir of the estates. This\nuncle was known as M. de Lamartine de Monceau and was by seniority the\nhead of the family. He had never married because his parents opposed the\nchoice he had made. He was thrifty and had increased the value of his\nproperty. Lamartine now took his uncle\u2019s designation.\n\nThe marriage of Lamartine took place during this period. The bride was\nMiss Marianne Birch, an English lady of beauty and fortune. She was of\namiable disposition and Lamartine\u2019s mother became warmly attached to\nher.\n\nNeither the accession of wealth, his aristocratic rank, nor diplomatic\nengagements deterred him from literary composition. In 1823 the\n_Nouvelles Meditations_ were published, and two years later, _The Last\nCanto of Childe Harold_. Lamartine afterward described this latter work\nas a servile imitation in which his enthusiasm as a copyist and its\nsuccess were alike \u201cmediocre\u201d\u2014a punishment for feigning an admiration\nwhich was not altogether sincere. He had, likewise, another penalty to\nencounter. Two lines in it are versified in English as follows:\n\n             \u201cI seek elsewhere (forgive, O Roman shade!)\n             For men, and not the dust of which they\u2019re made.\u201d\n\nFor this apparent slur he was involved in a controversy leading to a\nduel and dangerously wounded. At his solicitation to the Grand Duke of\nTuscany, his antagonist, Colonel Pep\u00e9, was not prosecuted.\n\nLouis XVIII. was succeeded in 1824 by the Count d\u2019Artois as Charles X.\nThe attempt was now made to reinstate the Government as it existed\nbefore the Revolution.\n\nIn 1829, at the instance of Chateaubriand, then a member of the\nCoalition Ministry, Lamartine was recalled. He never ascertained the\nreason, but attributed it to the influence of Madame Recamier, with whom\nChateaubriand was intimate. That lady, however, took an early\nopportunity to set the matter right by visiting the mother and sisters\nof Lamartine and inviting him and them to a drawing-room entertainment.\n\nThe reactionist Ministry under M. de Polignac was formed in the autumn\nof that year. It was the final separation of the men of the former\ncentury from the men of the time. A portfolio was offered to Lamartine\nbut declined. He was attached to the dynasty, but he had the prescience\nof its overthrow. \u201cI had seen it coming from afar,\u201d says he. \u201cNine\nmonths before the fatal day, the fall of the new monarchy had been\nwritten for me in the names of the men whom it had commissioned to carry\nit on.\u201d\n\nHe was sent on a special mission to Prince Leopold, then Duke of\nSaxe-Cobourg, and afterward King of Greece;[5] and had received the\nappointment of ambassador to that country when the Revolution of July\noverthrew the dynasty. The ministry of Louis-Philippe then offered him\nhis choice of the embassies to Vienna and London. The King visited him\nto solicit his acceptance, but he was inexorable. The title of\nLouis-Philippe was legally defective; he was not the next heir to the\nthrone, and he had not been placed on it by the choice of the people of\nFrance. For these reasons it was important to him that the supporters of\nCharles X. should accept places under him and thus strengthen his\npretensions. But says Lamartine: \u201cOne should not take part gratuitously\nin a fault which he did not himself commit.\u201d\n\nM. de St. Aulaire was at that time Minister at Vienna, but greatly\ndesired to be transferred to England. He also waited upon Lamartine,\nanxious to find out which place he was going to accept. Lamartine\nquickly assured him.\n\n\u201cIf,\u201d said he, \u201cI had the ambition to be ambassador to London, I would\ninstantly sacrifice it without hesitation, in remembrance of the good\noffices which you did to me at the time of my entrance into the great\nworld. But you can go to London without any indebtedness to me, except\ngood will.\u201d\n\nThe same year Lamartine was elected one of the \u201cImmortals,\u201d in the\nFrench Academy.\n\nThe same year he visited England. He there made the acquaintance of\nTalleyrand. The old statesman received him cordially, and in one\ninterview predicted his career. Lamartine, he remarked, was reserving\nhimself for something more sound and grand than the substituting of an\nuncle for a nephew upon a throne that had no stable foundation. \u201cYou\nwill succeed in it,\u201d he added. \u201cNature has made you a poet; poetry will\nmake you an orator; tact and thinking will make you a statesman. I know\nmen somewhat; I am eighty years old. I see farther than the objects in\nsight. You are to have a grand part to perform in the events which will\nsucceed to the present state of affairs. I have witnessed the intrigues\nof Courts; you will see the movements of the people deceptive in other\nways. Let verses go; you know that I adore yours. They are not for the\nage in which you are now living. Improve yourself in the grand eloquence\nof Athens and Rome. France will yet have scenes like those of Rome and\nAthens in her public places.\u201d\n\nFrom this period Lamartine spent much of his time abroad. He never\nforgot that he was a citizen of France, but he entertained a strong\ndislike for the Orleans dynasty. Yet his mother had been educated in the\nfamily with the King, and this somewhat increased his perplexity.\n\nHe writes of her death pathetically, as the saddest event of his life.\nHe had been loved and cherished by her with a devotion made sublime by\nits absolute self-abnegation. His first lessons in books and knowledge\nhad been given by her, and he was endowed personally with her most\nprominent characteristics. She had seemed to know instinctively when and\nwhy he suffered, and she possessed a power of divination to foresee his\ncareer. Her death, the result of a terrible accident, was to him like\nthe rending violently away of a vital part of his body.\n\n\u201cI hardly thought that I could survive the shock,\u201d he wrote in the\n_Souvenirs_. \u201cI was absent from home when the accident occurred which\ncut short her days. I came back in haste, arriving in time to follow the\ncoffin in which her remains were enshrouded, to the cemetery of the\nvillage where we had lived during our infancy.\u201d\n\nThe weather was bitterly cold, but this he did not feel. He returned to\nthe house at Milly, now empty for the winter and a thousand times more\nempty since she who had given it life and soul was sleeping the eternal\nsleep. Overcome by his grief, he made his way to the little room where\nthe papers of the family were kept, and threw himself down on the floor.\nThere he lay for hours in an ecstasy of woe. The moaning of the wind and\nthe ticking of the clock seemed to be repeating the funeral hymn.\n\n\n                          JOURNEY TO THE EAST.\n\nOne desire that the mother of Lamartine had instilled into him was that\nof visiting the East. As she read to him, a boy of eight years, from the\nBible about the places where wonderful events had taken place, he\nresolved that he would some time behold them with his own eyes. Now that\nhe was disengaged from public life there was an opportunity. There was\nmuch, however, to persuade him to remain at home; his father and\nsisters, and besides, he had a beautiful residence at Saint-Point with a\nwife and daughter to whom he was fondly attached. But he felt that\nimagination had likewise its necessities and passions.\n\n\u201cI was born a poet,\u201d he pleads. \u201cWhen young, I had heard the word of\nNature, the speech which is formed of images and not of sounds. I had\neven translated into written language some of those accents that had\nstirred me, and that had in their turn stirred other souls. But these\naccents did not now satisfy me.\u201d\n\n\u201cBesides, I was, I had almost always been, a Christian in heart and in\nimagination; my mother had made me such.\u201d This pilgrimage though not as\nof the Christian, at least of the man and the poet, would delight her in\nthe celestial abode where he saw her, and she would be to them as a\nsecond Providence between them and dangers.\n\nHis duty to his country was likewise considered. He had sacrificed to it\nthis dream of his for sixteen years. There was need for heaven to raise\nup new men; the present politics made man ashamed and angels weep.\n\u201cDestiny gives an hour in a century for humanity to be regenerated; that\nhour is a revolution; and men let it pass to tear one another to pieces:\nthus they give to revenge the hour given by God for their regeneration\nand progress.\u201d\n\nAll was duly made ready for the journey. He set sail from Marseilles, in\nthe brig _Alceste_, on the eleventh of July, 1832, expecting to be\nabsent two years. His wife and daughter and three friends, one of them a\nphysician, composed the party. The voyage was full of incident, and his\njournal abounds with adventures and predictions. Lamartine was what\nimaginative persons term a visionary. He was really oriental and\ntropical in temperament, and ready to catch the spirit of the region to\nwhich he was sailing; for Syria, Arabia and Palestine have always been\nrenowned for mystics, seers and prophets.\n\nAs the vessel passed the coast of Tunis, he wrote his impressions. He\nhad never loved the Romans nor taken the least interest in behalf of\nCarthage; but he sympathized with Hannibal. \u201cI love or I abhor, in the\nphysical sense of the word,\u201d says he. \u201cAt first sight, in the twinkling\nof an eye, I have formed my judgment of a man or woman for always.\u201d He\nadds that \u201cthis is the characteristic of individuals with whom instinct\nis quick, active, instantaneous, inflexible. What, it will be asked,\nwhat is instinct? It is to be cognized as the highest reason\u2014the innate\nreason, the reason that does not argue, the reason such as God has made\nand not what man finds out. It strikes us like the lightning without\nwhich the eye would have difficulty of searching it out. It illuminates\neverything at the first flash. The inspiration in all the arts, as upon\nthe field of battle, is as this instinct, this reason that divines.\nGenius also is instinct and not logic and labor.\u201d\n\nNevertheless he sets aside much that is often regarded as original, or\ninspired. This utterance is fit for the book of _Ecclesiastes_: \u201cThere\nis nothing new in nature and in the arts. Everything that is now being\ndone has been done before; everything that is said has been said\nalready; everything that is thought has been thought. Every century is\nthe plagiarist of another century; for all that we are so much, artists\nor thinkers, perishable or fugitive, we copy in different ways from one\nimmutable and eternal model,\u2014nature, the thought, one and diverse, of\nthe Creator.\u201d\n\nHe had little to say in favor of the Greeks. \u201cFor me,\u201d says he, \u201cGreece\nis like a book the beauties of which are tarnished, because we have been\nmade to read it before we were able to understand it. Nevertheless, the\nenchantment is not off from everything. There is still an echo of all\nthose great names remaining in my heart. Something holy, sweet,\nfragrant, mounts up with the horizons in my soul. I thank God for having\nseen, while passing by this land, the country of the Doers of Great\nDeeds, as Epaminondas called his fatherland.\u201d\n\nHe felt keenly a sense of isolation that he had no one to participate in\nthese sentiments. \u201cAlways,\u201d says he, \u201cwhen a strong impression stirs my\nsoul I feel the necessity to speak or to write to some one of what I am\nexperiencing, to find in some degree a joy from my joy, an echoing of\nthat which has impressed me. Isolated feeling is not complete: man has\nbeen created double. Ah! when I look around me, there is yet a void.\nJulia and Marianne fill everything for themselves alone; but Julia is\nstill so young that I tell her only what is suited to her age. It is all\nfuture; it will soon be all present for us; but the past, where is it\nnow?\n\n\u201cThe person who would have most enjoyed my happiness at this moment, is\nmy Mother. In everything that happened to me, pleasant or sad, my\nthought turns involuntarily to her. I believe I see her, hear her, talk\nto her, write to her. One who is remembered so much is not absent;\nwhoever lives so completely, so powerfully in ourselves is not dead for\nus.\u201d\n\n\u201cEmpty dream! She is there no more; she is dwelling in the world of\nrealities; our vagrant dreams are no more anything to her; but her\nspirit is with us, it visits us, it follows with us, it protects us:\n_our conversation is with her in the eternal regions_.\u201d\n\nHe goes on to describe his condition.\n\n\u201cBefore I had reached the age of maturity I had lost the greater part of\nthose here below whom I most loved, or who most loved me. My love-life\nhad become concentrated; my heart had only a few other hearts to take\nvoyage with. My memory had little more than graves where it might rest\nhere in the earth; I lived more with the dead than with the living. If\nGod were to strike two or three of his blows around me, I feel that I\nwould be detached entirely by myself, for I would contemplate myself no\nmore. I would love myself only in the others; and it is only there that\nI can love.\u201d\n\n\u201cOne begins to feel the emptiness of existence from the day when he is\nno more necessary to anybody, from the hour when he can no more be\ndearly loved. The sole reality here below, I have always felt, is love,\nlove under all its forms.\u201d\n\n\u201cTo us poets, beauty is evident and perceptible; we are not beings of\nabstraction, but men of nature and instinct; so I have travelled many\ntimes through Rome; so I have visited the seas and the mountains; so I\nhave read the sages, the historians and the poets; so have I visited\nAthens.\u201d\n\nOn the fifth of September the brig arrived at Bayreuth. Lamartine\nengaged a house for the season and established his family there while he\ntravelled over the country. He had for a long time entertained grave\ndoubts of his daughter\u2019s health, and had brought her with him in the\nhope that a residence in Syria would restore her.\n\nIbrahim Pacha was at this time making his conquests, and at his orders,\nthe French travellers were everywhere received with courtesy and the\nmost generous hospitality.\n\nThe heat was too great for setting out at once, so Lamartine addressed a\nletter to Lady Hester Stanhope, asking permission to visit her. This\nlady had been the confidential secretary of her uncle, William Pitt, the\nfamous minister, and was supposed to be betrothed to Sir John Moore.\nAfter their deaths she left Europe and made her home in the East. She\nhad gained a certain authority over many of the Arabian chiefs who\nvenerated her as an inspired person. She received Lamartine cordially,\nsaying that their stars were friendly and in concurrence. He declined\nher offer to cast his horoscope or to have any discussion on matters of\nreligion. \u201cGod alone possesses the truth,\u201d said he, \u201cwe have only\nfaith.\u201d\n\n\u201cBelieve what you please,\u201d said she. \u201cYou are one of those men\nnevertheless that I expected, whom Providence has sent to me, and who\nhave a grand part to perform in the work which is preparing. You will\nshortly go back to Europe; Europe is finished. France alone has as yet a\ngrand mission to fulfill, and you will participate in it, I know not\nhow.\u201d\n\nShe added that he had four or five stars, and explained further: \u201cYou\nought to be a poet; that is legible in your eyes and the upper part of\nyour countenance. Lower down you are under the influence of different\nstars that are almost in opposition; there is an influence of energy and\nactivity.\u201d\n\nShe asked his name; she had never heard it before. She predicted that he\nwould soon return to Europe, but would come back to the East, insisting\nthat it was his fatherland. He acknowledged that it was the fatherland\nof his imagination.\n\nLamartine and his friends were hospitably entertained but she would not\nregard his departure as being more than for a season.\n\nForming a caravan at Bayreuth he set out on the eighth of October. At\nJaffa or \u201cYaffa,\u201d the governor had received letters from Mehemet Ali and\nIbrahim Pacha, then masters in the East, commanding all the officials to\naid him in his journey, to furnish escorts, and to supply him with every\nconvenience that he required. When the caravan reached the \u201cvillage of\nJeremiah\u201d it was met by Abu Gosh, the brigand chief. He demanded of\nLamartine whether he was the Frank Emir, whom his friend, Lady Stanhope,\nthe Queen of Palmyra, had placed under his protection, and in whose name\nhad sent him the magnificent garment of cloth of gold in which he was\nthen arrayed. Lamartine knew nothing of the gift but assured the chief\nthat he was the man.\n\nAbu Gosh at that time had the whole region of Southern Palestine in\nsubjection clear to Jericho. He now provided a strong guard for the\ncaravan.\n\nLamartine found no difficulty in identifying the places around\nJerusalem. \u201cAlmost never,\u201d says he, \u201cdid I encounter a place or object\nthe first sight of which was not to me as what I remembered. Have we\nlived twice or a thousand times? Is our memory simply an impression that\nhas been obscured, which the breath of God brings out again vividly? Or\nhave we a faculty in our imagination to anticipate and perceive in\nadvance before we actually do behold?\u201d\n\nThe monks of the Convent of St. John the Baptist, in the wilderness of\nthat name, received the travellers with sincere cordiality. Lamartine\nleft there a part of his caravan, going on only with the Arabian and\nEgyptian guard. They confined their movements to visiting places in the\nsuburbs, made historic by traditions of the New Testament.\n\nHe pays a deserved tribute to the Turks for their management of the\n\u201cHoly Sepulchre.\u201d Instead of destroying it, they had preserved\neverything, maintaining strict police regulations, and a silent\nreverence for the place which the Christians were far from manifesting.\nWhile the intolerance of the various sects would lead the triumphant\nparty to exclude its rivals from the place, the Turks are impartial to\nthem all.\n\nThe Mussulmans are the only tolerant people, he stoutly affirms. Let\nChristians ask what they would have done if the fortunes of war had\ndelivered to them the City of Mecca and the Kaaba.\n\nOn the thirtieth of October, the caravan set out for the river Jordan\nand the Dead Sea. On returning to the neighborhood of Jerusalem,\nLamartine received a letter from his wife that determined him to forego\nthe extending of his journey into Egypt. He went back to Bayreuth,\narriving the fifth of November.\n\nAutumn in that country has the warmth, the renewing of vegetation and\nother conditions, like spring in the northerly climates of the temperate\nzone. Lamartine had purchased Arab horses of superb quality while in\nPalestine, and one for his daughter. It was at the end of November that\nhe took her out for her first excursion with the animal. The air was\nexhilarating and the mountain scenery in its most attractive guise. In\nan ecstasy of excitement the young girl declared it the longest, most\nbeautiful, most delightful ride that she had ever taken.\n\nIt was also the last. On the second of December she was taken suddenly\nill and died the next day. The parents were overwhelmed with grief. The\nlast hope of their house was thus cut off in the glad days of\nadolescence.\n\nThey remained at Bayreuth through the winter. On the fifteenth of April\nthey set out for their return homeward and sailed for Constantinople.\n\nLamartine interspersed his narrative of this voyage with reflections\nupon what he observed and meditated. \u201cI would like to sail all the\nwhile,\u201d says he, \u201cto have a voyage with its chances and distractions.\nBut what I read in my wife\u2019s eyes goes deep into my heart.[6] The\nsuffering of a man is nothing like that of a woman, a mother. A woman\nlives and dies in one sole thought, or one solitary feeling. Life for a\nwoman is a something possessed; death, a something lost. A man lives\nwith everything that he has to do with, good or bad; God does not kill\nhim with a blow.\u201d\n\nOn the subject of travelling and sojourning abroad, he speaks\nphilosophically:\n\n\u201cWhen a man is absent from his country, he sees affairs more perfectly.\nDetails do not obstruct his view, and important matters present\nthemselves in their entireness. This is the reason why prophets and\noracles lived alone in the world and remote. They were sages who studied\nsubjects in their entirety and their judgment was not warped by the\nlittle passions of the day. The statesman, likewise, if he would judge\nand foresee the outcome, must often absent himself from the scene in\nwhich he performs the Drama of his time. To predict is impossible, for\nforeknowledge is for God alone; but to foresee is possible, and\nforethought is for man.\u201d\n\nLamartine analyzes closely the doctrines of Saint-Simonism, and what he\nconsiders their weak points. \u201cWe must not,\u201d he says, \u201cjudge new ideas by\nthe derision which they encounter during the period. All great thoughts\nwere first received in the world as aliens. Saint-Simonism has in it a\nsomething true, grand and beautiful; the application of Christianity to\ncivil society, the legislation of Human Brotherhood.\n\n\u201cFrom this point of view I am a Saint-Simonian.\n\n\u201cWhat has placed this Society under an eclipse, though not under death,\nis not the want of an idea, nor the lack of disciples. In my opinion it\nwants a leader, a master, a manager. If there should be found a man of\ngenius and virtue who was religious and at the same time prudent, who\nwould bring the two horizons into one field of vision which should be\nplaced under the direction of the nascent ideas, I have no doubt that he\nwould transform it into a potent reality. Times in which there is an\nanarchy of ideas, are favorable seasons for the germinating of new and\nheroic thoughts.\n\n\u201cSociety, to the eye of the philosopher, is in a state of disorder. It\nhas neither direction, object nor leader; and it is reduced accordingly\nto the instinct of conservatism. A sect that is religious, moral, social\nand political,\u2014that has a creed, a watchword, an object, a leader, and\nmind, if it were to advance compactly and directly at the midst of the\ndisordered ranks in the present social order, would inevitably gain the\nvictory. But it must bring safety and not ruin, attacking only what is\ninjurious and not that which helps, and calling religion back to reason\nand love, prudence and Christian Brotherhood, having universal charity\nand usefulness as its only title and only foundation.\n\n\u201cA law-maker requires young men ardent in zeal and on fire with the\nhunger for faith, from which however, senseless dogmas have been\nrejected. The organizers of Saint-Simonism have taken for their first\narticle of belief: war to the death between the family, property and\nreligion on one hand and ourselves on the other. They ought to perish.\nThe world, by the force of speech is not conquered; it is to be\nconverted, stirred, wrought into activity, changed.\n\n\u201cSo long as an idea is not practical, it is not presentable to the world\nof society. Human nature goes from the known to the unknown, but not\nfrom the known to the absurd. That will be held back in the subordinate\neffort. Before great revolutions, the signs are to be seen on the earth\nand in the sky. The Saint-Simonians have had one class of those signs:\nthey have broken up as a body, and they are now more slowly at work\nmaking leaders and soldiers for the new army.\u201d\n\nThe vessel and its convoy arrived in the Bosphorus on the twenty-fifth\nday of May. Lamartine, his wife and friends now took up their residence\nat Buyukd\u00e9r\u00e9, for the next two months. During this period they were\nrecipients of the most friendly attentions. The Grand Seigneur himself,\nand the principal officials at Constantinople extended courtesies and\ncordial demonstrations, exceeding any that had ever before been bestowed\nto \u201cFranks.\u201d This was in recognition of the substantial help which had\nbeen given to prevent the further dismemberment of the Ottoman empire.\nLamartine had been heralded everywhere as a personage of distinction,\nand his reception was warm and cordial, almost as if he had been a royal\nprince. His opinions were treasured, and his advice eagerly sought by\nthe ministers and representatives of the Government. He was admitted to\nplaces from which other Europeans had been excluded, and so long as he\nremained in Turkish territory, every necessary provision was made for\nhis safety and honorable recognition.\n\nHis journal of the voyage records minutely the occurrences and\nobservations which thus came within his notice.\n\nFootnote 2:\n\n  Talleyrand did not know Lamartine at this period. When some of his\n  verses were recited to Lamennais he sprang from his chair, exclaiming,\n  \u201cEureka! we have found a poet!\u201d\n\nFootnote 3:\n\n  Edward Gibbon, the historian, who had known Lamartine\u2019s mother in her\n  girlhood, spent a year at a house near her residence. He greatly\n  admired the child Alphonse and predicted his future career.\n\nFootnote 4:\n\n  The conci\u00e8rges and porters at the large mansions in France were\n  allowed to keep a lottery. A _quine_ consisted of five prizes.\n\nFootnote 5:\n\n  Leopold declined the crown of Greece and became the King of Belgium.\n\nFootnote 6:\n\n  The body of the daughter, at her dying request, had been embalmed and\n  sent directly home for interment at Saint Point. The mother was in\n  many respects like her husband\u2019s mother, a devoted wife and indulgent\n  parent, as well as the kindest of neighbors.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u201cWhoso takes good advice is secure from falling; but whoso rejects it,\nfalleth into the pit of his own conceit.\u201d\n\n_Gems from the East._\n\n\n\n\n                           PASSAGE TO INDIA.\n                          (Extracts Selected.)\n                             WALT WHITMAN.\n\n\n    (Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes,\n    Is the deferment long? bitter the slander, poverty, death?\n    Lies the seed unreck\u2019d for centuries in the ground? lo, to God\u2019s due\n       occasion,\n    Uprising in the night, it sprouts, blooms,\n    And fills the earth with use and beauty.)\n\n    O Thou transcendent,\n    Nameless, the fibre and the breath,\n    Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them,\n    Thou mightier centre of the true, the good, the loving,\n    Thou moral spiritual fountain\u2014affection\u2019s source\u2014thou reservoir,\n    (O pensive soul of me\u2014O thirst unsatisfied\u2014waitest not there?\n    Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)\n    Thou pulse\u2014thou motive of the stars, suns, systems,\n    That circling, move in order, safe, harmonious,\n    Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space,\n    How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out\n       of myself\n    I could not launch, to those, superior universes?\n\n    Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God,\n    At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death,\n    But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,\n    And lo, thou gently mastereth the orbs,\n    Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death,\n    And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.\n    Greater than stars or suns,\n    Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth;\n    What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?\n    What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?\n    What dreams of the ideal? what plans of purity, perfection,\n       strength?\n    What cheerful willingness for others\u2019 sake to give up all?\n    For others\u2019 sake to suffer all?\n\n    Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev\u2019d,\n    The seas all cross\u2019d, weather\u2019d the capes, the voyage done,\n    Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain\u2019d,\n    As filled with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,\n    The Younger melts in fondness in his arms.\n\n\n\n    Passage to more than India!\n    O secret of the earth and sky!\n    Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers!\n    Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!\n    Of you O prairies! of you gray rocks!\n    O morning red! O clouds! O rain and snows!\n    O day and night, passage to you!\n\n    O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!\n    Passage to you!\n\n    Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!\n    Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!\n    Cut the hawsers\u2014haul out\u2014shake out every sail!\n    Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?\n    Have we not grovel\u2019d here long enough, eating and drinking like mere\n       brutes?\n    Have we not darken\u2019d and dazed ourselves with books long enough?\n\n    Sail forth\u2014steer for the deep waters only,\n    Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,\n    For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,\n    And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.\n\n    O my brave soul!\n    O farther, farther sail!\n    O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?\n    O farther, farther, farther sail!\n\nTo determine the real relations that exist between man and God is my\nthought. It is the need of the times. We need to convince ourselves that\nman is the object of all earthy resources if we ask ourselves if he is a\nmeans to an end. If man is linked to all, is there nothing above him to\nwhich, in his turn, he is bound? If he is the last of the unexplained\ntransformations which reach up to him, may he not be the tie between\nvisible and invisible nature? The action of the world is not an\nabsurdity; it leads up to an end, and this object cannot be society\nconstituted as ours is. There is a terrible gap between us and the\nheavens.\n\nIn reality, we cannot ever enjoy or always suffer. To gain either\nparadise or hell an enormous change must take place in us; without\neither place, the masses can conceive no idea of God at all.\n\nIs not the idea of motion stamped on the systems of worlds, sufficient\nto prove God to us? We busy ourselves very little about the pretended\nnothingness which precedes birth while we fumble in and ransack the dark\ngulf that awaits us, that is, we make God responsible for our future and\nwe demand from him, no record of the past. To get out of this difficulty\nthe soul has been invented, but it is repugnant to our feelings to\nrender God obligated for human baseness, our disillusions, our decline\nand fall. How can we admit in ourselves a divine principle over which a\npotent liquor can get the advantage?\n\nCan we imagine immaterial faculties which matter may utterly subjugate\nwhose exercise a grain of opium can prevent? Is not the communication of\nmotion to matter an unexplored abyss whose difficulties have been rather\ndisplaced than resolved by Newton\u2019s system? Motion is a _great soul_\nwhose alliance with matter is quite as difficult to explain as is the\nproduction of thought in man.\u2014BALZAC, _Louis Lambert_. (Translated by\nHarriett Green Courtis.)\n\n\n\n\n                            THE HUMAN CELL.\n                       BY ARTHUR A. BEALE, M. B.\n\n\n\u201cTo demonstrate that Brotherhood is a fact in Nature; to investigate the\nlaws of Nature and the divine powers in Man.\u201d\n\nWhen we fall away from the path of duty, when torn by the storms of\npassion we forget that there reposes within the complexities of our\nnature a divine spark\u2014much more, perhaps, that we ourselves are a\nuniverse, nay, a universe of Universes, a Great Eternal God,\ncontrolling, energizing and creating worlds that live and have their day\nand cease to be. But it is so. Hour by hour worlds are falling away and\nwith them ebb the vital forces of our being. Take a flake of scurf from\nthe head and put it under the microscope,\u2014a new vista is opened up. And\nyet, this is only a type of millions of like or dissimilar entities,\nwhich are so bound together as to compose the mighty universe of man\u2019s\nbody,\u2014the least important of his constitution. These little lives take\ndifferent shapes to suit different necessities, but they agree in\ncertain essential features which we learn to call _the cell_. And\nlooking lower still this cell is of the same type as those found in the\nanimals and again in the plants. How very little difference, too,\nbetween these and the monads of the mineral kingdom!\n\nBut keeping to man, these cells form themselves into societies, which we\ncall tissues, these into others we call organs, and the organs form\ntogether a corporate organization, the body, which in a healthy state is\nsubservient to the synthesizing forces emanating from the Heart, where\nlives the source of life, the divine Ruler. So the organs work together\nin harmony. If any organ begins to absorb more attention and life than\nis due to it, not only does it suffer itself, but brings discord into\nthe whole.\n\nBut as long as it observes its own duty and fulfils its place, so does\nit maintain its own status, and receive its own benefits; for thus, and\nthus alone, can it participate in the higher impulse, that comes from\nthat sacred centre.\n\nAs of the organs so of the cells of which each is composed, they must\nact in accordance with the unified impulse of the organ, but so must\neach cell be true to the heart of its own tiny body\u2014whence, as I shall\ntry to show, comes the true impulse, by which it evolves,\u2014that centre\nwhere are played the divine harmonies and where stands the God directing\nhis forces in the building of \u201cthe temple not made with hands.\u201d\n\nThis is a Universal Activity. It is the same process going on through\nall the kingdoms of the Universe, from the tiny crystals to plants, from\nplants to animals, and animals to man.\n\nBut specializing the cell we note not only that all the body is composed\nof cells or the deposit of cells, but that one type of cells develops\nfrom another type, and ultimately all cells result from one single cell\n\u201cinto which,\u201d in the words of Darwin, \u201clife was breathed by the\nCreator\u201d\u2014of course always understanding that we have not specified the\nnature of the Creator.\n\nIf this is so, and no one in these times will dare to dispute it, it\nbegins to dawn upon us that this curious complex body of man is, as it\nwere, a tremendous society of entities, the separate individualities of\nwhich, whilst retaining their place as such in the great body, are\nswamped in the individuality of that one. Not only so, but as it will be\nour endeavor to show later on, the healthy existence of each part\ngreatly depends on its maintaining its loyalty and subservience to the\nsupreme Chief, from which it gets its daily source of energy and\ninspiration.\n\nWhat is true of the part is true of the whole and _vice versa_. For in\nits turn the body of man must be subservient to that of which it is a\npart, and answer to the call of that which represents the corporate body\nof bodies, and to the divine light within, \u201cthat lighteth every man that\ncometh into the world,\u201d which is one with the Father, the Divine over\nsoul, of which we are all dim reflections. So also of the part, the tiny\nmicrocosm of man, the cell, it is in its turn a universe, a universe so\ngrand that the many revelations that scientific investigation has\nunveiled makes that science stand aghast; but these, we may venture to\nprophesy, are nothing to the occult secrets that still lie waiting for\nrevelation.\n\nAll that the magnificent symbolism of the Gnostics has taught us\nconcerning The Man Iesous and his relation to Ichthys the fish, the ark\nand the ship, can be well applied to the _cell_, which is a veritable\nArk with its Holy of holies in which sit and meditate the holy ones, the\n_prajapati_ of the Hindus and the Christos of the Gnostics. Veritably it\nis _par excellence_ the Astral Vehicle, the ship floating on the watery\nocean, veritably it is the Dagon, the fish-man, the new teacher coming\nfrom the unknown regions of the Silence, the boat of Vishnu carrying the\nGod-Man into the world of Manifestation. We may well exclaim: O God, how\nmanifest are thy works! how sublime are thy powers! And when we\ncontemplate the tiny vehicle of life under the microscope we may well\nclose-to the doors of the senses, take off the sandals and worship, for\nare we not at the very altar of the Temple\u2014the temple of the Almighty;\nare we not face to face with the Creators? He that hath eyes to see let\nhim see!\n\nAmongst the great contributors to the Science of the Cell perhaps none\nhas approached nearer the Holy of Holies\u2014none so nearly tore aside the\nVeil of Isis, as H. P. B. has practically told us, than Professor\nWeissmann in his contribution on the Germ Plasm and the New Problem of\nHeredity as handled by him. Under the guiding hand of this savant we see\nthe cell in a new light, we begin to see kingdom within kingdom; and had\nhe but recognized the other side, had he but explored the dark side of\nthe Moon, much more might have been written, many more mouths might have\ngaped and many more sceptics have smiled. Professor Weissmann however\nhas found a mare\u2019s nest. He has raised the devil, but forgotten to give\nhim something to do, and as of old we cannot help exclaiming, what next!\nThe cell of Weissmann like the cell of most other students, is a tiny\nball of protoplasm with a central nucleus (the Holy of Holies, Fish Man,\netc.) but unlike that of other writers, instead of containing more\ndifferentiated protoplasm, taking the forms of meaningless and\naccidental rods, our revered professor has discovered a Nest of\nCreators. He tells us that the greater portion of the cell does not in\nany way participate in the process of hereditary transmission. Nay,\nfurther still, not only does he regard the nucleus as the all important\nparticle but to quote his own words: \u201cThe law that only a certain part\nof the nuclear matter is to be regarded as the hereditary substance\nappears to me to receive fresh support from all the more recent\nobservations.\u201d\n\nNow the parts referred to are a series of minute rod-like structures\ncalled _chromatin rods_ that are very active and manifest all kinds of\nchanges according to necessity, especially at that critical period in\nthe history of a cell called cell-division, when it is about to\npropagate its species by _making itself_ into two by equal distributions\nof its substance between its two selves. For you must know that when a\ncell divides (and this does not refer to human cells alone, but all\nvegetable and animal cells from the simplest to the most complex) the\nproducts are two so-called \u201cdaughter cells,\u201d but they are daughters\nwithout a mother. It is one of the most mystical processes in existence\nand contains much secret knowledge for it contains the mystery of the\nbirth of two from one. In this process, called in scientific parlance\n_Karyokinesis_, these little rods play a most important part, nay, the\n_all-important_ part, for the whole process commences with them and\nproceeds from the centre outward. There is at the commencement of the\nprocess a disturbance, a series of vibrations throughout the nucleus.\nThese little rods immediately form into a kind of reticulum or network;\nthen this network arranges itself into an indefinite spiral, at which\ninstant two mysterious bodies issue from the mass at opposite poles, and\ntake up a position in the cell, at some distance from the coil of rods;\nthen the spiral breaks up into two opposing sets of loops.\n\nUltimately these two sets of rods settle down in the neighborhood of the\ntwo little bodies (_centrosomes_) shot out, or, I should perhaps say,\nare attracted separately to the two poles of the cell by the\n_centrosomes_. Then a cell wall forms between; the one cell becomes two.\n\nThere are some very occult forces at work behind all this, and they\ngenerally are referred to, to cover our ignorance, as the law of\npolarity, albeit that this law, whatever it is, involves the most occult\nof the creative forces, in fact of all manifestation.\n\nTo go back, Dr. Weissmann does not consider these rods which he calls\n_idants_ as the essential units, but states that in their turn these are\nthemselves composed of more minute bodies he calls _ids_.\n\nIn this respect, however, he considers protoplasm as a whole as\ncomposed, not of so many chemical compounds, having an indefinite and\nuncontrollable action on one another, but of collections of \u201cmolecules\nunited into a single group.\u201d These molecules he calls _biophors_. The\nbiophors, as bearers of vitality, possess the power of growth and of\nmultiplication by fission. But the biophors which go to make up the\nrods, have a more specific character of their own, and are the carriers\nof those minuter bodies still which this savant speaks of as the real\ncreative units, or what he calls \u201c_determinants_.\u201d These ultimate\ndeterminants, smaller than microscopic, hold within their tiny hearts\nthe ideal shape of the part which they are destined to control, carried\nand distributed in the process of evolution of the creature by the\nprocess of cell division.\n\nThis conception, enormous advance as it is on the previous materialism\nof Huxley\u2019s protoplasm, is yet so pregnant with the taint of the\nmaterialistic age, that it requires modifying before it can even be\nadmitted as a logical hypothesis. For one must ask; if the cell gets its\nimpulse from the nucleus, the nucleus from the rods that inhabit it,\nthese rods from the little biophors of which they are composed, and\nthese from the determinants, where on earth do the determinants get it\nfrom? We are reminded, moreover, that there was a time, not far away,\nwhen this particular cell had no separate existence of its own. And if\nwe are directed back to the ovaries, and from them to the germinal\nlayer, and this from the cell again, still there is no escape, for we\nmay well ask with the Duke of Argyle: \u201cWhat then! Whence the first?\u201d\n\nBut the thing has a more definite and easy solution, for if these\nmaterial units are the Creators, and if as it is stated, the ingredients\nof matter, especially sentient matter (so-called) are constantly\nundergoing motion and change, by displacement; what about these units\nwhen the time comes for them to play their part, has not their substance\nbeen lost and replaced over and over again.\n\nSo we come back to our philosophy and we realize what our Chief, W. Q.\nJudge, taught us, that the cell only has an existence as an _idea_.\nThinking of this word for a moment, looking it up in the dictionary we\nfind the following _verbatim_ (Gr. idea, from _idein_, to see) \u201cone of\nthe archetypes or patterns of Created things, conceived by the\nPlatonists to have existed from eternity in the mind of the Deity.\u201d[7]\nNow look at the words used by Dr. Weissmann, _idants_ and _ids_. Is\nthere not something very suggestive here. We are then dealing not with\nmatter alone, but with ideas; nay, more, what is matter but an idea or\ncongeries of ideas? For as has been well said we know nothing of matter\n_per se_ but only the manifestation of matter. It is the idea not the\nmatter that takes form. Now we must surely recognize that ideas as\n_things_ are not causes but effects. So our professor all this time has\nbeen dealing with effects and gets these mixed up with the causes. If\ncells and the contents are ideas containing ideas, and if idea means\nthat which is seen, then there must somewhere be a Seer, and such a seer\nwithout any sophistry must be a magician\u2014not because we associate the\nword Seer with magician, but quite independently.\n\nNow we have realized that the body of man is composed of many minuter\nentities, over which stands the supreme ruler. Each organ is composed of\nmany entities, over which rules the conscious governor of that organ,\nand so on to the little cells which in their turn are composed of\nminuter creatures each having a conscious existence of its own, whilst\nthat Consciousness is composed of the consciousness of all its component\nlives. That consciousness is in each case part of the Divine\nconsciousness that pervades all things and acts in direct proportion to\nits plane of activity.\n\nThis Divine Consciousness in man which is the real man\u2014real in the sense\nof permanency\u2014is quite on a par with the Creators, though that real self\nis perhaps not known to any of our personal selves. But then stands that\nreal Self at the commencement of each New Birth. As the process of\nevolution goes on each step in the meditation of this mighty Self as he\ncontemplates existence, finds a responsive thrill in the tiny ovum,\nbound to himself by the strong bonds of Karma. As he emerges in\ncontemplation from the mineral to the vegetable and on to the animal, so\nthe sensitive plasm of the germ responds. Page after page of the history\nof man is retold till once more the story is complete to the point where\nthe previous incarnation ended; then the child is born to carry on the\nhistory as best he may.\n\nSo in the cell the determinants are the little bundles of ideas coming\nfrom the Magician (ourselves) and being instilled bit by bit into the\nheart of each of those groups of molecules and ensouling it, so the tale\nis told and this side of manifestation opens out into the beautiful\nblossom of Humanity, moulded also in part by the parental influences\nwhich can make or mar the impulse as it comes straight from the\nCreator\u2019s mind. Make or mar, and yet how few women think of the real,\nsacred and holy duty of parentage. How hellish the times in which any\ndares to point the finger of scorn and shame at a blessed pregnant\nwoman. But as we are beginning to understand, soon shall we be able to\nreverence them all as the sacredness of motherhood is understood.\n\nThis little picture contains the whole of our philosophy, and it must be\nleft more or less to the intuitions of each. But in closing we can say\nthis much. The study of the cell teaches that Brotherhood is a fact in\nnature. It teaches that that brotherhood depends on the harmonious\nco\u00f6rdinate activity of many entities, working together united by the\nrecognition of the one source of life and inspiration. It also teaches\nthe great Divine mystery that hangs about every new birth, and that the\nreal seat of that Divinity is in the Hearts of all Creatures.\n\nThere is one more lesson that we ought not to miss. We have seen the\nmagnificent results of harmonious action which is always synthetical and\nfinds its highest expression in Love and Compassion issuing from the\nheart.\n\nSometimes the same force becomes converted into Hate, when once the\ncentrifugal disintegrating force is set going and gains the ascendancy,\nselfish in nature, self-centred, it cuts away the bonds that bind man to\nhis fellows; he tries, but in vain, to carry on an existence of his own,\nbut he soon finds that he has no existence, no meaning, no life apart\nfrom the whole. The foolish virgins repent too late, their light has\ngone out, they have no oil of life with which to kindle their lamps\nanew. In their own blind conceit they are lost. Nay, but look! Have not\nsome demons, spooks and malignant fiends got hold of them and, having\ngained an entrance, are now without their consent messengers of Disease\nand Death. Is this not so of the cells? Some little impulse causes them\nto pursue a course contrary to the interests of the whole; for a time\nthey are centres of discord; and neuralgia, rheumatism, indigestion,\netc., are the result. But anon the cells fall away and, as entities,\ndie. The smaller containing entities, the Chromatin rods, little\npregnant particles of life are set free. Losing their parental\nprotection and cares, they go on with the impulse given them, till some\nmalignant breeze sweeps over them and they become the victims and\nservants of hate, disease and Death. Are these not the germs of disease\nthat science is fighting about just now? Verily! verily! who shall deny?\nThese little escaped convicts, the rods, previously servants of Love,\nbecome now the free agents of disease. They are none other than the\nbacilli, associated with so many pestilences; and a further\ndisintegration produces spores\u2014the ingredients of bacilli. These are not\nthe diseases, nor yet the cause (primary), they are merely the vehicles\nof disease. Can we not see how well this applies to every organism and\norganization as an entity? Poor lost bacilli, how hardly have ye been\nused by your masters!\n\nFootnote 7:\n\n  _The Library Dictionary._\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u201cHe who does not recognize bread and salt is worse than a wild wolf.\u201d\n\n_Gems from the East._\n\n\n\n\n                           THE SOKRATIC CLUB.\n                               By SOLON.\n                             (_Continued._)\n\n\nSo much interest had been aroused by the conversation on Art and the\nDrama as an Educative Factor which I have already recorded, that there\nwas a larger attendance than usual at the next meeting of the Club.\nEveryone was glad to see Madam Purple who it was known to all had\nestablished a school to revive the ancient wisdom and to teach the laws\nof physical, moral and mental health and of spiritual development and\nfor the purpose of accentuating the importance of Music and Drama as\nvital educative factors had already reproduced one of the old Greek\nTragedies in such a way as to arouse the attention of the public and\nastonish the critics, touching a new chord and awakening new\npossibilities for the influence of the stage on the lives and characters\nof the people.\n\nDr. Roberts had evidently not yet been convinced of the importance of\nthis work though he had seen and even praised the production of\n\u00c6schylus\u2019 Eumenides, for he still reiterated his old objections. The\ndiscussion so far had been on general lines, but now it turned more\nparticularly on the Drama.\n\n_Dr. Roberts._\u2014\u201cI cannot see how the performance of Eumenides or any\nplay you may take from the ancients can have any such effect that you\nclaim it will have. The people who attend will see no more in it than in\nany other play. Of course it will have its own characteristics and no\ndoubt its classical beauty, but will not these peculiar features appeal\nonly to the very few? How will you make it a factor in the education of\nthe masses?\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cI do not think you understand the real character of\nthe ancient drama, Doctor. Probably, also with the exception of the\nrecent production, you base your ideas of the attractiveness of Greek\nPlays upon the presentations which are occasionally given at one of the\nUniversities. Classical these may be in a sense, I admit, but certainly\nthey are severe.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Roberts._\u2014\u201cHow can they help but be severe. I remember when at\ncollege that one of these plays was acted by some of the students, but\nfor my part I saw nothing particular in it.\u201d\n\n_Mme. Purple._-\u201cWas not that possibly because those who produced the\nplay and enacted the parts, themselves saw nothing in it beyond the mere\nincident as told in so many words?\n\n\u201cThe most beautiful things remain invisible to those who have not eyes\nto see. Look at the hundreds and thousands in every large city and,\nstrange to say, more particularly in country districts, who know nothing\nof the beauty and sublimity of the heavens and nature around them. Many\na farmer looks at the sky simply to note the changes of the weather. The\nmagnificence of cloud effect, the glory of the sunrise and the quivering\nof the eternal stars, he never sees. And even those who profess to be\nlovers of nature, how little more than external beauty do they see? Do\nthey indeed see any deeper than the surface of things and but rarely\npierce the veil to behold with awe and wonderment the reality?\u201d\n\n_Dr. Roberts._\u2014\u201cBut, Madam Purple,....\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cAh! Doctor, it is always, \u2018but\u2019. Isn\u2019t it all true,\nwith no \u2018but\u2019?\u201d\n\n_Dr. Roberts._\u2014\u201cYes, I grant you that what Madam Purple said about the\nappreciation of nature is true, and even that the same thing applies to\nthe appreciation of art and music and the drama. But\u2014I was going to\nsay\u2014it seems to me your illustration is too lofty for the case under\nconsideration. It is true one may rise to the greatest heights of\nconsciousness under the influence of music and poetry and the\ncontemplation of high ideals and if I understand you aright, Madam\nPurple, you hold these are the same high feelings that may be aroused by\nthe grand harmonies of nature and by what perhaps is meant by the music\nof the spheres. Do I catch your meaning?\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cYes, Doctor, you have caught the idea in part, but\nmusic and poetry and the harmonies of nature too often exercise only\nwhat I might call an unconscious and transitory influence\u2014not\ndeep-seated in any sense\u2014because men will not open their eyes and lend\ntheir ears. The great anthem of nature is ever being sung; life is joy\nand harmony; but alas, there are so many who will not open their hearts\nto the song and the sunshine. But I see you wish to say something more,\nDoctor.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Roberts._\u2014\u201cYes, I grant this may be true, no doubt it is true, but\nto return to the old Greek tragedies, although there may be lofty ideas\nin them, I fail to see that they will produce the effect you anticipate.\nThere is no music in them and they are altogether too cold and bare.\nBesides, what meaning do they hold, deeper than that which may be seen\nby the ordinary reader?\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cA meaning that the mere student of languages and\nliterature will never find, but one that to the student of life, to one\nwho recognizes that there is an inner life, will ever unfold more and\nmore and reveal such beauties and harmonies that will thrill the very\nsoul.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Roberts._\u2014\u201cI do not see it, though I grant that high moral lessons\nmay be contained in the old Greek poetry and tragedies, but at the same\ntime there is so much that is mere fancy. We have passed the age of the\nchildhood of the race when the mythological tales of the gods and\ngoddesses were seriously taken. I do not deny that there may be many\nvaluable lessons in these, but I certainly think that you are reading\ninto them a great deal that is not there. Pardon my frankness, but I\nreally wish to understand your position.\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cIt is not a question of reading a meaning into them,\nbut of being able to draw the meaning out, and to do this requires a\nmaster-hand. No modern scholar who is not a mystic will find it, and it\nis no wonder it has been lost to the ordinary reader.\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cDoctor, you thought my illustration of the beauties of\nnature too high, but after all the beauties which we see in nature are\nbut the reflection of the beauties in the soul, and do not exist save to\nhim who has developed some beauty of soul. The old Greek tragedies, and\nparticularly those of \u00c6schylus, are portrayals of the life and struggles\nof the soul.\u201d\n\nJust then Dr. Wyld came into the room. He had been present at the\nperformance of the Play, and had expressed himself so pleased with it\nthat the Professor had asked him to visit the Club.\n\nThe Doctor came over immediately to where Madam Purple and the Professor\nwere sitting, and these meetings being more or less informal, the\nconversation was interrupted for the exchange of greetings.\n\nDr. Wyld is a very tall, broad-shouldered, spare man, I should judge\nabout seventy years old, but carrying his age gracefully. He is one of\nthe best known Greek scholars, of a keen and vigorous intellect.\nDignified, yet with a keen appreciation of humor and fond of a good\nstory as well as able to tell one. Not only is he a profound scholar of\nGreek and Neo-platonic literature, but of the world\u2019s literature,\nancient and modern. He is at once a mystic and a keen observer of men,\nand had led a very active life, especially in the literary world, as an\nauthor, and had also written for some of the leading newspapers of the\nmetropolis. In this way he had met very many of the prominent public\nmen, both literary and political, of the past half-century. It had been\nmy privilege to spend many a delightful hour with him and in that way I\nhave gained a clearer conception of the history of the United States\nthan from any reading I have done, and also of the beauties of the\nwritings of the old philosophers, especially the Neo-platonists.\n\nHis tall figure and dignified bearing would attract attention in any\ngathering, and as he entered the room with his long stride, all eyes\nwere turned towards him.\n\nThe Professor rose to receive him. The room was beautifully yet simply\ndecorated with hangings of harmonious colors, and the Doctor noticed\nthese immediately and addressing Madam Purple:\n\n_Dr. Wyld._\u2014\u201cWhat a pleasure it is to come into a room where there is\nsuch harmony of tone and color. I can well understand what the Professor\ntold me that your meetings here are always delightful. The very\natmosphere seems conducive to harmony of feeling and the awakening of\nhigh thought.\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cThat is true, Doctor, I hold that color ought to be\nmade a very important factor in life, and that the harmonies of sound\nand color are essential features of true education.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Wyld._\u2014\u201cAnd I think you have already struck the key-note of this in\nyour production of the Eumenides, and I wish to tell you of the rare\ntreat it was to me to witness it and the opportunity it gave me of\nreally judging what a Greek play is like\u2014such as could never be gained\nfrom reading. It had all the aroma of ancient Athens. One of my friends\nremarked that it had the beauty of a Greek statue, but I would go\nfurther, for it had also the grace and beauty of life. I do not mean\nthat the performance was perfect but it was the spirit that pervaded it\nthat gave it this great charm. And after seeing it I do not wonder in\ncoming here that you also carry out your ideas of harmony in the\ndecoration of your Club-room. It is a further carrying out of what you\nteach and which I fully agree with, that what is most needed in our\neducational system and in life generally is a sense of harmony and of\nthe due proportion of things.\u201d\n\nHere the Rev. Alex. Fulsom, who had come in a short time before Dr.\nWyld, and had listened more attentively than usual (without going to\nsleep) to the conversation, moved his chair a little forward as if to\nspeak, but waited a moment. Although he always expressed himself as most\nsensitive to harmonious shades of color and adored\u2014as he expressed\nit\u2014Greek statuary, though he equally adored a pretty bonnet,\nnevertheless did not in any way support Madam Purple in her revival of\nthe ancient Drama.\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cWell, Alec, what is it now? Another objection? I\u2019m\nbeginning to think you belong to some objection society, whose main\npurpose is to object to everything on principle and for the sake of\nobjecting. Come, tell us now, haven\u2019t you pledged yourself to the\nfollowing:\u2014\u2018I pledge myself to always object to everything that may be\nproposed by anybody?\u2019 But for once, Alec, put your objections on one\nside and enter into the spirit of the subject.\u201d\n\n_Rev. Alex. Fulsom._\u2014\u201cNo, Professor, I am not to be turned aside from my\nopinion by any method of badinage or ratiocination. And what is more, I\nthink it my duty to express my views. As I have said before, it appears\nto me altogether beneath the dignity of a Leader and Teacher in such a\ncause as ours to be concerned in the production of a play\u2014whether Greek\nor not\u2014or to spend so much time and the energies of the Club in mere\nphilanthropic work. The latter, doubtless, is laudable enough but the\nClub has other aims to pursue, and it seems to me to have departed from\nits time-honored methods of study. Indeed, the study of the philosophy\nseems to be almost completely overlooked nowadays.\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cHaving delivered yourself of your objection, I trust\nyou feel a little relieved, my friend, but you have not hit the nail on\nthe head, Alec. Study is not overlooked, but on the contrary, our\nstudents are learning how to study and the true value of study as the\nprecursor of right action. Thanks to Madam Purple, the study of\nphilosophy is no longer looked upon as the end and aim of life.\nTheoretical study is good and necessary, but our students realize that\nBrotherhood is more than a theory, that it is an actual fact to be\nconsciously realized and that they must seek to make Theosophy a living\npower in their lives.\n\n\u201cYou know well the scriptural saying which I will slightly paraphrase,\n\u2018Let your light so shine before men, that they seeing your good works\nwill glorify the higher law and follow it.\u2019 It behooves us to practice\nBrotherhood as well as to profess it. But it is the things they don\u2019t\nlike that the objectors see but they fail to see that the study which\nthey are crying out for is still pursued though on higher and broader\nlines than heretofore, become possible by the advance made by the whole\nMovement. The inner work and the real study have never ceased but have\ntaken on a deeper meaning. Thank the gods, instead of the members\nseeking to have or to become special _gurus_ and imagining themselves\nbetter than others, the whole organization moves along in touch with the\nlife of the world, all striving ever to put into practice that which\nthey preach. The time-honored methods of which you speak were fast\nbecoming time-honored ruts and you ought to thank your stars, that here\nis an opportunity to get out of the ruts and enter upon a broader field\nof life and activity as well as of study. And so far as the Play is\nconcerned you seemed to have missed entirely its purpose and the wide\ninfluence which can thus be exerted in the world.\u201d\n\n_Rev. Alex. Fulsom._\u2014\u201cThere may be some good in it no doubt, but there\nare so many other things that are needed in the world. I certainly think\na teacher would have a higher work to do. There are enough\nphilanthropists and elevators of the drama, whereas our philosophy is\nunique, and surely we ought to carry out the original plans of the\nFounder.\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cAnd you assume, I might say, _presume_, to know what\nthose original plans were, but your conception of them admits of no\ngrowth, but only stagnation or the continuing in ruts which so many have\nformed for themselves through their misconception and limited knowledge\nof, if not deliberate indifference to those plans.\u201d\n\nI often wondered how it was the Professor did not lose patience\ncompletely with the Rev. Alec., always so pessimistic, trying to tear\ndown. But then we all knew that his moods depended on his digestion, and\nupon that subtle disease\u2014the love of approbation and prominence.\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cMr. Fulsom, do, I beg of you, try to rise a little\nabove your pessimistic fears and let a little of the sunshine of hope\nand trust come into your heart. Students of Theosophy above all others\nought to be able to take a larger grasp of the problems of life and\nperceive that the greatest truths which will ultimately bring the\ngrandest results and happiness to all mankind must necessarily be often\nat first obscured; that to help the masses we must begin where they can\nappreciate the work, and so move out gradually along the lines of least\nresistance. Thus will all those who seek the Light be attracted and\nhelped, whatever their development. Our grand philosophy must be\npresented in various ways if the many different minds are to be touched,\nfor you well know that all men are not built alike\u2014to use a common\nexpression. Babes need to be fed as well as strong men. For some the\nteaching must be given in parables and there are some truths that but\nfew can bear to hear. As for the original plan of the work, H. P. B.,\nthe great artist, spread the canvas and sketched the outline with a bold\nhand, then the second Helper put in the colors of the background thus\nmaking clearer the design upon the trestle board, but do you think you\nhave been able to see the whole of the grand design and have grasped the\nharmonious proportions of the noble edifice in all their beauty and\ngrace.\u201d\n\nThen turning her head for a moment with her wonderful smile, Madam\nPurple continued after a short pause.\n\n\u201cImagine for one moment that when H. P. B. began her work in the world\nshe could have shown what is now being done, or that it could be shown\nto you what will be the outcome of her efforts two hundred years hence,\nwould it not be entirely beyond belief, can you even imagine it? There\nmust be a _gradual_ growth and unfoldment suited to the comprehension of\nthe people. How then dare anyone say that the present activities are\ncontrary to the plan of H. P. B. Ah! Mr. Fulsom, is not such a position\nevidence of retrogression and not of growth?\n\n\u201cBut, pardon me, Dr. Wyld, this is somewhat of a digression from the\nsubject of the Greek play which you were discussing. Let us come back in\nthought to the old Greek Drama. There, at least, the gods wait for us\nand call to us to rise above this XIXth Century materialism into the\nrealm of the beautiful, the ideal and the true.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Wyld._\u2014\u201cAn almost unknown land to so many, but I hail with joy the\nprospects that once more the geography of that celestial country shall\nform part of the education of the race and lead us further back in the\nhistory of humanity into that greater and more ancient land of the\npyramids and the silent sphinx.\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cAnd from there further back still to prehistoric\nAmerica, which was in the early days the ancient Land of Light when\nEgypt was yet young and whence Egypt derived her wisdom and her\nscience.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Wyld._\u2014\u201cThat is indeed interesting, though to me it is not\ndifficult to believe. It opens out a new chapter in the life of humanity\nand I doubt not that if it can be shown to be so, it will solve many\nproblems in the history of man\u2019s development. But will you not tell us\nfurther on this subject.\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cTime would not permit of going into it at any length,\nDoctor, but I will say this. Time will bring the proof of what I say.\nArch\u00e6ological research started at the right time, which is not far\ndistant, in this country and in Central America will supply clear\nevidence of the truth of this statement.\u201d She paused a moment, then\ncontinued:\n\n\u201cMy friends, with all these grand possibilities in view, when such\nmomentous questions are involved that will bring such priceless\nknowledge to the human race, can you wonder that the real workers find\ntime all too precious to be frittered away in useless argument. It is\nwork, work, work, that our glorious cause demands of us.\u201d\n\nMadam Purple spoke with so much earnestness, that it stirred one\u2019s heart\nto its very depths, old memories of the long forgotten past seemed about\nto awaken, pictures of the ancient times flitted across the vision, and\nof the future when the glories of the past should be revived. One young\nlady of slight figure and pale face, an enthusiastic worker, always\npresent at the meetings, but who never ventured to say a word, now\nexclaimed:\n\n\u201cThe very thought of it brings new life, new hope. Surely we haven\u2019t any\ntime to sit and mope over the little frictions that beset our paths.\nSurely we should keep on working and trusting that we may be a part of\nthis new life and each of us become individually a hope and a light to\nthose who would walk this broad path of knowledge towards the glorious\nfuture that awaits us.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Wyld._\u2014\u201cOne can see even now indications that the world is\nadvancing to a broader field of thought. The revival of the ancient\ndrama and the way the \u2018Eumenides\u2019 was received show this clearly and\nshow that the links with the mighty past exist in the hearts of\nmen\u2014albeit unconsciously to most, but ready to be awakened into\nresponsive action when again the picture of that long forgotten life is\npresented before them. I heard with much interest that in one city where\nthe play was given, the notices of the performance were given out in\nalmost every church in the city. And one prominent minister said it was\nthe finest study of conscience scourging for sin and of the Divine Power\nto pardon and transform, he ever saw. He said such plays are better than\nsermons.\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cIt is indeed gratifying that there are so many\ninterested in almost every line of work that will benefit humanity and\nwho are naturally drawn to help along educative lines. All work to be of\nreal benefit must be educative.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Wyld._\u2014\u201cLet me go back to what I said just after I came into the\nroom, it comes upon me with greater and greater force, and I felt it too\nwhile watching the performance that somehow it moved one right away from\nthis grasping, money-making world to a new-old world near to the silence\nand peace of things where words are not needed.\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cMay it not be that by taking up this Drama in the right\nspirit and reviving the ancient life and consciousness by going back in\nthought to old Athens, we have started anew the vibrations which\nresulted in the beauty of Greek art and life. Then here in the Club\nwhere but rarely any discordant note arises, but where we come together\nin harmony there comes an indescribable something that leaves its\nimpress on the heart, of peace and joy and at the same time a sense of\ncourage and unconquerable energy to carry on this work that our beloved\nH. P. B. and the Chief began. This is a peculiar time at the end of the\ncentury, of such vast importance that is scarcely realized by any.\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cIt has been a century of unrest, and nothing is more\nneeded than that this keynote of harmony should be struck at this time,\nit is in this that lies the hope of the future, and it is in this spirit\nof harmony that actuates the workers to-day that lies the guarantee that\nthe work will be carried into the next century, though one here and\nthere, unable to go forward in the new age, must be left behind.\u201d\n\n_Dr. Wyld._\u2014\u201cMadam Purple, will you not tell us more about \u00c6schylus\u2019\npurpose in writing his plays, for, like Shakespeare\u2019s, I would declare\nthem to be \u2018not of an age, but for all time.\u2019\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cYes, I think \u00c6schylus and Shakespeare may well be\ncompared, for each taught the truths of life, though each veiled them in\nforms suited to the times in which they wrote. It is perfectly evident\nto the deep student that there is an inner meaning to the plays of\n\u00c6schylus, and it may be that in his earnestness and endeavor to instruct\nthe people and bring out these truths he became so enthused that he\nintroduced some features of the Inner Mysteries, and although these\ncould only be recognized and interpreted by Initiates, yet the story is\nhe was condemned to death for this. It is true the inner meaning had to\nbe clothed in a form adapted to the tastes of the people. In those days\nGreece had begun to retrograde, and the true idea of religion had become\nobscured in the minds of the masses. It had begun to take on a gruesome\naspect, and that which had the greatest hold upon them was fear and the\ndread of punishment. \u00c6schylus, like all great teachers, adapted his\nteachings to the mind of his hearers. Instead of taking them so high\nthat they could find no foothold, he used their ordinary conception of\nreligion and took them forward one step at a time. To have brought out\nthe teaching in all its power and grandeur would perhaps have dazzled\nthem, and being beyond their grasp would have seemed to them to be a\ntearing down of their present conceptions and ideals, and thus have\nthrown them back and into rebellion.\u201d\n\n_The Professor._\u2014\u201cThere are plenty of evidences of this in modern life,\nof would-be teachers who, ignorant of the laws of growth and\ndevelopment, seek to tear down and at the same time to dazzle their\nhearers with knowledge which they themselves have not half-digested, and\ninstead of bringing light and freedom, they but imprison and fetter the\nmind more closely. It is just as though to hasten the growth of a tender\nplant a gardener would bring it out of a cool and shady spot into the\nfull glare of the sun. Its life would be burned out by that which is the\nvery source of its life.\u201d\n\n_Madam Purple._\u2014\u201cBut in \u00c6schylus the teaching is there, though veiled.\nThe wise teacher does not tear down until a new foothold has been found.\nHe builds, constructs and educates, thus slowly leading to a higher\nlevel, disengaging the minds gradually from error by instilling a higher\nconception of truth. The inner teaching runs through it all like a\ngolden thread in a many colored tapestry, now appearing, now apparently\nlost, but in reality only hidden from the casual observer yet present\nstill to him who has eyes to see.\n\n\u201cA great effort was made by the Initiates at about the time of \u00c6schylus\nto revive in the heart of the Greeks a love for the ancient wisdom which\nthey had received originally from Egypt. \u00c6schylus himself had been\ninstructed by teachers not known to the world and had been prepared to\ntake part in this work long before he appeared openly as a teacher and a\nwriter. Those who had the best interests of the people at heart and who\nwere \u2018called\u2019 to serve as spiritual teachers were ever seeking to\neducate them not according to what the people demanded of them but\naccording to their needs. Among these was \u00c6schylus. He made no great\nclaims for himself but was a stranger to fear, and so deeply was he\nimbued with the love of humanity and his desire to serve it that he\nbecame indifferent to criticism, and dared to step out into the arena of\nlife with a boldness that to those who see only through the small\nglasses of vanity and ambition and who could not understand him, may\nhave seemed egotism. But those who can follow the inner meaning of his\nwritings and can see his great purpose, recognize him as a true servant\nand lover of humanity. What cared he for the hatred and opposition of\nthose who loved personal power and sought to keep the people in\nignorance, who saw that his grand work for helping humanity would thwart\ntheir designs and block their selfish paths. It was these who persecuted\nhim and caused him to be condemned\u2014not his fellow-initiates and comrades\nor those who truly loved wisdom and freedom.\n\n\u201cThe chief of the persecutors of \u00c6schylus was one who had the ambition\nto hold the place that he had in the hearts of the people and not\nsucceeding in this sought to destroy him. Yet in spite of his many\ntrials and persecutions his works and memory still live as a monument to\nhis aspirations and noble efforts. Yet even to-day he is only partly\nunderstood and like many other teachers will have to wait for the\nrevolutions of the times and the further evolution of man before the\ngrander meaning of his great work is made manifest.\n\n\u201cBut it has ever been so in the history of man. History but repeated\nherself in the case of \u00c6schylus, in the case of H. P. B. and many\nanother. Those who would help humanity know of a surety what to expect,\nyet they falter not, nay, they even gain new courage and endurance under\nthe persecution, for is there not in their hearts the Light of Truth and\nthe love of all true comrades of the Ages to cheer their path? The\ndevotion of one faithful heart outweighs in the balance a multitude of\npersecutors.\u201d\n\n[In future accounts of the Sokratic Club some of the characters will\nappear under other names, but some of our readers who are interested\nwill doubtless be able to tell the identity.\u2014Solon.]\n\n\n\n\n                           STUDENTS\u2019 COLUMN.\n                          THE BASIS OF ETHICS.\n\n\nIn the December number of UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD the question is asked:\n\u201cWhence arises the sense of duty? In what does it originate?\u201d The\nanswers given are good; and V. F. touches the key-note in the words \u201che\nowes it to _himself_,\u201d etc.\n\nThe question and the discussions recalled to my mind the answer given to\nthe same question by Dr. Hickok of Union College in his treatise on\nMoral Science, which was published in 1853, and used as a text-book in\nthe University of Vermont a few years later.\n\nIt is too often taken for granted that a Christian must find a new basis\nof ethics and a new rule of right in order to justify his acceptance of\nthe Theosophical teachings. This is far from the case, even assuming for\nthe sake of the argument what is not true in fact, that theosophy\nrejects the Bible; for the great majority of Christian writers on this\nsubject have not founded their systems on the Bible, or upon any\nreligious system whatever, but have, so far as they discuss religious\nduties, treated them as a part of some greater ethical whole. Such is\nthe case in the manual of Dr. Hickok. He only needs to bring out more\nclearly the unity of finite spirits in Absolute Spirit, and to note the\nproper distinction between personality and individuality and between\nindividuality and the One Life\u2014a distinction that is logical rather than\nmetaphysical\u2014and to enlarge his view so as to include the tenet of\nreincarnation with its correlative doctrines, to make his system very\ngood Theosophy. His foundation is impregnable; but by overlooking the\nunity of the finite in the infinite, and by clinging to the notion of a\npersonal God distinct from the Higher Self, he brings that God into\njudgment before the finite spirit of man. This makes the Second Part of\nhis treatise, on Divine Government, weak and halting in comparison with\nthe First Part, on Pure Morality. His work would have been simplified\nand strengthened beyond measure could he have seen that the self before\nwhom man stands in the inner sanctuary of his being is the Higher Self\nof our teachings, and is one with the highest Deity. I quote Dr.\nHickok\u2019s statement of the basis of ethics and of the source of our sense\nof duty.\n\n\u201cWhether absolute or finite spirit, there is to each an inner world of\nconscious prerogative\u2014revealed to itself completely, and to itself only,\nexcept as the absolute includes the finite\u2014and from which comes forth\nperpetually the imperative, that every action be restrained by that\nwhich is due to its own dignity. It is this consciousness of the\nintrinsic excellency of spiritual being, which awakens the reverence\nthat every man is forced to feel when he is brought fairly to stand\nalone in the presence of his own spirit. As if another and a divine self\nscanned and judged every purpose and thought of the acting self, so is\nevery man when arraigned before his own personality, and made to hear\nwith uncovered head his sentence of self-justification or\nself-condemnation. There is an awful sanctuary in every immortal spirit,\nand man needs nothing more than to exclude all else, and stand alone\nbefore himself, to be made conscious of an authority he can neither\ndethrone nor delude. From its approbation comes self-respect; from its\ndisapprobation, self-contempt. A stern behest is ever upon him, that he\ndo nothing to degrade the real dignity of his spiritual being. He is a\nlaw to himself, and has both the judge and executioner within him and\ninseparable from him. The claim of this intrinsic excellency of\nspiritual being, as apprehended by the reason may be known as the\n_objective_ Rule of right.\n\n\u201cWe may call this the imperative of reason, the constraint of\nconscience, or the voice of God within him; but by whatever terms\nexpressed, the real meaning will be, that every man has consciously the\nbond upon him _to do that, and that only, which is due to his spiritual\nexcellency_. The motive to this is not any gratification of a want, not\nany satisfying of a craving, and thus to be done for a price in\nhappiness; but it is solely that he may _be_ just what the intrinsic\nexcellency of his own spirit demands that he _should be_. Enough for\nhim, that he _is_, in the sight of his own spirit, and of all spirits,\nworthy of spiritual approbation. Not only would he not sell this\nworthiness of character for any price, but he has not attained it for\nthe sake of a reward beyond it. That it was not the end, but a means to\na further end, would make it wholly mercenary, and the very worthiness\nhe speaks of would be profaned to a marketable commodity. He willingly\nthen would be anything else if he could get equal wages for it. To be\nthus worthy of spiritual approbation is the attainment of the highest\ndignity, and may be called the _subjective_ end of ethics, and is a\n_moral good_.\n\n\u201cThis is the ultimate end of rational being; the end of all ends. As\nworthy of happiness, this may now righteously be _given_, and\nrighteously _taken_, but not righteously _paid_ as a price nor _claimed_\nas wages. The _good_ is the _being worthy_, not that he is to get\nsomething for it. The highest good\u2014the SUMMUM BONUM\u2014is _worthiness of\nspiritual approbation_.\u201d\n\nThe italics and capitals are Dr. Hickok\u2019s. \u201cAs if another and a divine\nself scanned and judged every purpose and thought of the acting self,\u201d\ncould hardly be improved by any of our theosophical writers.\n\nG. A. MARSHALL.\n\nDARLINGTON, Wis., Dec. 29, 1898.\n\n\n\n\n                        YOUNG FOLKS\u2019 DEPARTMENT.\n\n\n                            THE WESTON TEN.\n                         BY MARGARET S. LLOYD.\n                             I. STILL POOL.\n\nWeston, Massachusetts, is a beautiful little New England town, with the\ncheerful, home-like air that is almost always found in the villages of\nthat State. It is situated in a pleasant, green valley, surrounded by\nhills, and one can see the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont from\nthe main street of the village. The Connecticut River flows past the\nwestern part of the town and there are many pleasant walks in the\nneighborhood.\n\nThe children of Weston, and there are many children in this pretty\nvillage, love best to go down to the river, or else to take the long\nwalk to Quan Glen.\n\nAfter leaving the long main street of the village, with its rows of\ncomfortable-looking big white houses, and double row of elm trees, a\nturn to the north brings one, after a half-hour\u2019s walk, to Quan Glen. It\nis a lovely little place, always green even in the severe winter, for it\nis sheltered on either side by high banks of pine, birch, and other\ntrees, that on the north side of the Glen lead away into deep woods. The\nbottom of the Glen is covered with a soft carpet of mosses and ferns,\nand through the middle runs a clear stream of water, which makes a\npleasant murmur as it ripples and plashes over the white pebbles which\ncompose its bed.\n\nIt was on a hot day in August when a party of children came through the\nwoods and prepared to descend the high bank leading down to the Glen.\nOut of the hot sunshine and into the cool green of the shade trees made\na delightful change after their long walk, and they pushed forward\nthrough the branches and tall grass and ferns. There were ten children,\nfour boys and six girls. The eldest of the children was Ph\u0153be Allen, a\ntall, slender girl of fourteen who seemed to be a sort of little queen\namong the others, as they were constantly appealing to her and running\nup to show some new flower or especially nice fern they had found. Tommy\nJones was the youngest member of the party. He was seven years old and\nstill wore the queer over-all blue checked apron which little boys and\ngirls alike wore at this period, thirty years ago. The apron made a\nsplendid play-dress and was really very comfortable, although our friend\nTommy was a quaint-looking little figure as he trotted along, the ruffle\nof his apron forming a big collar around his neck, from which his head\nstood out like some new kind of a daisy\u2014a daisy with bright yellow hair\nand dreamy grey eyes!\n\nTommy was jolly and full of fun and laughter, but he had his periods of\nbeing quiet and this afternoon was one of them. At such times his\nplaymates had learned to leave him alone. For they knew it was just one\nof \u201cTommy\u2019s silent times,\u201d and that by and by he would be as merry as\nthe others. He went along with the other children, holding Ph\u0153be\u2019s hand\nand keeping close to her until they reached the bottom of the glen. Then\nthe others scattered, leaving him and Ph\u0153be to walk on together. The\nother boys amused themselves by throwing pebbles in the brook and trying\nto find a minnow, while the little girls wandered about the glen in\nsearch of flowers.\n\nPh\u0153be Allen walked slowly along with Tommy at her side, and after a few\nminutes she said: \u201cI\u2019m ever so glad we came to the glen to-day. It\u2019s\njust lovely here isn\u2019t it, little Tommy?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, I guess \u2019tis.\u201d\n\nHe continued, \u201cPh\u0153be, don\u2019t you like the summer time the best of all?\nThe woods are so cool and green and there\u2019s so many flowers.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, yes, I do love it. But I think I like the spring time best because\nI think the little flowers, so pale and tender, are the very dearest of\nall. The summer flowers are so strong and bright. I love the little\nspring flowers the best, and best of all the big, beautiful purple\nviolet.\u201d\n\nTommy thought a while and then he said:\n\n\u201cI know. I guess you mean that we love the things that aren\u2019t strong the\nbest. It wouldn\u2019t hurt a daisy or a big mullein or a clover blossom one\nbit if it was to rain hard. Would it? But the wee spring flowers\ncouldn\u2019t stand so much, could they?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, that\u2019s it. Then, you see, I always think all the flowers are real\npeople, just as real as you and I are, only different, and of all the\nFlower People\u2014I always call them the Flower People when I think of\nthem\u2014it seems to me that the spring Flower People are the loveliest. For\nthey come to us almost before the winter\u2019s gone and while it is still\nvery cold and we haven\u2019t any other flowers.\u201d\n\n\u201cI think so too,\u201d said Tommy. \u201cYou always \u2019splain to us children and\ntell us lots of nice things to think about, Ph\u0153be. But I like it best of\nall when you \u2019splain things to just me, for then I can understand real\neasy.\u201d\n\nThe children soon came to a big chestnut tree and Ph\u0153be sat down under\nit to rest awhile. Tommy walked on. Ph\u0153be looked around her. She could\nhear the children laughing and chattering up the glen. She watched\nTommy. He walked along, stopping every now and then to watch a butterfly\nor to peer into the waters of the brook as it rippled along the side of\nhis path.\n\nPh\u0153be sat quiet for some time. The voices of the other children sounded\nfarther away until they scarcely reached her. She saw Tommy\u2019s little\nfigure far down the glen, beside the Still Pool. \u201cI wonder what he is\nlooking at,\u201d she thought, \u201che has been standing beside the pool such a\nlong time.\u201d She called, \u201cTommy, Tommy,\u201d but he did not turn his head.\nShe waited a moment and then started toward him. As she came near him\nshe saw that he was gazing into the waters of Still Pool as though he\nsaw something very wonderful in it.\n\nStill Pool was a beautiful little well of water at the northern end of\nthe glen. It was formed by water from the brook which had some time gone\nout of its course and left here this deep, clear pool, all surrounded by\nferns and water cress. It was almost always so clear that you could look\nright down to the bottom of it and see the white pebbles there. The\nchildren had always called it the \u201cStill\u201d pool, because it seemed so\nvery quiet in this part of the glen and the pool was the stillest of\nall.\n\nPh\u0153be came up to Tommy. He did not hear her; he was looking into the\npool. So she came behind him very softly and laid her hand on his\nshoulder.\n\n\u201cWhat are you looking at, little Tommy?\u201d she asked.\n\n\u201cI have called and called you, but you never turned your head. I don\u2019t\nbelieve you even saw me as I came up here.\u201d\n\nTommy turned around and looked at her. His big, dreamy eyes looked up\ninto her soft brown ones. \u201cOh, Ph\u0153be,\u201d he said, \u201cI suppose I must have\nbeen dreaming. I\u2019m hardly awake yet. I saw something so wonderful in\nStill Pool.\u201d\n\nPh\u0153be looked at the child with deep interest. \u201cYou saw a beautiful Face\nthere, didn\u2019t you?\u201d\n\nTommy looked at her with astonishment. \u201cWhy, how did you know? Then I\nmust really, truly have seen the Face.\u201d\n\nPh\u0153be laid her cool hand on his hot forehead and brushed his hair back.\nThen she took his hand and said softly:\n\n\u201cCome to my chestnut tree before the other children come back and you\ncan tell me all about it. Or, if you don\u2019t feel like talking, we will\njust rest under the tree awhile, and when the others come we will all go\nhome together.\u201d\n\nTommy grasped Ph\u0153be\u2019s hand tightly and walked along. Neither said\nanything until they had sat under the tree for some time. Tommy\u2019s eyes\nstill wore their far-away look. He laid his head on Ph\u0153be\u2019s lap, and the\nyoung girl stroked his yellow hair and waited until he should be ready\nto talk.\n\nAt last the little boy sat up and said:\n\n\u201cI saw a very queer thing while I was at Still Pool. I was just looking\ninto the water and thinking how white the pebbles were, when all at once\nI couldn\u2019t see the pebbles any more. The water looked all gray, and\nthen, while I was looking and wondering, I saw a beautiful, beautiful\nface! I really did, Ph\u0153be, honest and true!\u201d\n\nPh\u0153be looked at the earnest little boy. She answered nothing, but her\nface was transformed as she listened to his story. Her beautiful brown\neyes grew more gentle looking and her face seemed to have a light\nshining behind it.\n\n\u201cHonest, Ph\u0153be, I did see a beautiful, lovely face. A _real_ face.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am sure you did, Tommy,\u201d said Ph\u0153be. She saw that the child was ready\nto cry at his fear that perhaps Ph\u0153be did not understand him. \u201cI know\nyou saw the Face. I have seen such a beautiful Face more than once.\u201d\n\nTommy drew a deep breath. \u201cIt was the loveliest face you could think\nabout. It was just shiny, and it had deep, deep kind eyes, and it looked\nright up at me and smiled. Oh, I felt my heart grow big all at once, and\nI was just as still as could be for fear the beautiful thing would go\naway. But the first thing I knew you laid your hand on my shoulder and I\nsort of felt as if I was just waking up. But I know the face was real\nand true!\u201d\n\n\u201cOf course it was, Tommy.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt makes a little boy feel very strange to have such things happen,\u201d\ncontinued Tommy. \u201cBut it\u2019s just like my very own thoughts. Sometimes I\nthink and think and think until the air seems all shiny, and then I feel\noh, so happy! So very, very happy! But I never can make it into words.\u201d\n\n\u201cNo, dearie, you can\u2019t make it into words now, but you will be able to\nsome day. Do you know what I think? I think that nature made you a Poet\nwhen you were born, and so, as you grow, the beautiful thoughts will\ngrow and grow as you do, until some time, when you are a big man, you\nwill be able to tell all that you have thought about, all the lovely\ndreams, if you call them dreams, that you ever have had, and all these\nlovely shining things will grow into beautiful words and be printed in\nbooks. Then they will be read by men and women and little boys and\ngirls, too, and it will help them all to be good and more happy than\nthey ever were before.\u201d\n\nTommy gazed with loving, wondering eyes while Ph\u0153be spoke. He felt as\nthough he understood all she meant as he watched her face. For while she\ntalked it absolutely shone and she looked as though she saw, far in the\ndistance, little Tommy, grown to be a man and a wonderful poet.\n\nAfter a while Tommy said, suddenly: \u201cOh, Ph\u0153be, I know what the lovely\nface in the pool was!\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat, dearie?\u201d\n\n\u201cDon\u2019t you remember the other day when all us children were in your\nhouse and you were telling us those nice stories? Don\u2019t you remember how\nyou told us there was a shining boy or girl in each one of us? I\nremember all you told us about it and you said it was the real, true\nself. Our own best self; our bestest goodie. I believe the face in the\npool was my bestest goodie; it must have been!\u201d\n\n\u201cPerhaps it was, Tommy. But why do you say \u2018bestest goodie\u2019?\u201d\n\n\u201c'Cause \u2018bestest\u2019 is the very, _very_ best, and \u2018goodie\u2019 is the very\nnicest, _goodest_ thing. So \u2018bestest goodie\u2019 is the very loveliest thing\nof all!\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, the Shining One is all that, dearie. You have found a very good\nname for it. Our Shining Self is our \u2018Bestest Goodie.\u2019\u201d\n\nSoon the other children came up to Ph\u0153be and Tommy and the party started\nfor home. All the boys and girls had bunches of ferns and flowers and\nthe boys whistled as they walked. The little girls walked along more\nsedately, all of them clustering around Ph\u0153be who laughed and chatted\nwith them, as gay as the gayest. Tommy, too, was full of fun, as he\nhopped along, holding on to Ph\u0153be\u2019s hand. All the quiet, sober thought\nwas put aside, and again they were just two happy children with the\nothers.\n\nAs the party reached the main street of Weston once more, it was\ndecided, before breaking up, that the ten children\u2014the Weston Ten, as\nthey call themselves\u2014should meet in Ph\u0153be\u2019s house to spend the afternoon\ntwo days from that time.\n\n\n\n\n                                NOTICES.\n\n\nWe receive an occasional communication addressed to us with a\nPost-office box number. Some time before the present Headquarters at 144\nMadison Ave., was established the business of the Theosophical Society\nand the Publishing Co. was transacted through a Post-office Box, but Mr.\nJudge gave up this box upon removal to the Headquarters at 144 Madison\nAve., six years ago, and never afterwards used it. The Theosophical\nPublishing Co., which was founded by Mr. Judge, is still at 144 Madison\nAve., to which address all mail should be directed.\n\nThe Theosophical Publishing Co.,\nE. A. Neresheimer.\nManager.\n\nMr. Edwin H. Clarke has been selected to assume charge of the\nAdvertising Departments of the UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD and _New Century_.\n\nThose desiring information as to rates, etc., as well as all matters\npertaining to this department should address\n\n                      Edwin H. Clark,\n                      Advertising Department,\n                      144 Madison Ave.,\n                      New York.\n\n                      The Theosophical Publishing Co.,\n                      E. A. Neresheimer, Manager.\n\n\n\n\n                        BROTHERHOOD ACTIVITIES.\n\n\nNEW YORK.\n\nThe Universal Brotherhood Meetings, held Sunday evenings in the Aryan\nHall, are increasing in interest all the time. A noticeable feature is\nthe number of men who attend and the very excellent and intelligent\nquestions which are asked. The meetings are interspersed with music,\nusually by the Misses Fuller, Piano and Violin, forming a very important\npart of the proceedings. Short addresses are given and questions\nanswered by H. T. Patterson, H. Coryn, B. Harding, and J. H. Fussell. A\ncollection is also taken to help defray expenses and it is found that\nthe visitors appreciate the opportunity of doing this.\n\nThe Aryan Lodge Meetings on Tuesday evening have for some time past been\nfor members only but it has been decided to open them to the public. The\nfirst open meeting was held Jan. 17, and a number of visitors were\npresent. The Lodge meetings adjourn at 9.30, thus giving an opportunity\nfor conversation and social intercourse. Our President, Bro.\nNeresheimer, often adds to the pleasure of the evening by singing.\n\nA new Lodge was formed in New York on the West Side on Jan. 3. At the\ntime of writing three meetings have so far been held. A large room with\na piano has been hired at 587 Hudson Street, and a very good beginning\nhas been made, several people being already interested. This is one of\nthe old residence districts of New York and the inhabitants generally\nare noted for being good thinkers and earnest people. Those helping in\nthe work are members from the H. P. B. and Aryan Lodges: D. N. Dunlop,\nS. Hecht, Mrs. Cracauer, Dr. Wilcox, Miss Bernstein, H. T. Patterson, H.\nCoryn, Miss Whitney, J. H. Fussell, and others.\n\nBro. Albert E. S. Smythe is now making a tour of Universal Brotherhood\nLodges and is a fully authorized representative of the Universal\nBrotherhood, and the International Brotherhood League. He has so far\nvisited Toledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago and has had good success. This is\nan opportunity for the new members and those at a distance to come in\ncloser touch through Bro. Smythe with the work at Headquarters. Bro.\nSmythe is so well known through his work in Toronto and as Editor of\n_The Lamp_ and so many have also heard him at the annual Conventions of\nthe T. S. A. that he needs no introduction.\n\nInquiries have been received in regard to the railway arrangements for\nthe Congress of Universal Brotherhood at Point Loma next April. Bro. W.\nA. Stevens, 500 Lafayette Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., has these in charge and\nwill be ready to report by about Feb. 1st. Those desiring information\nshould write him. Further particulars will be given in _The New\nCentury_.\n\nAn important meeting of the Universal Brotherhood was held in Boston,\nJan. 17, at which were present the Leader, E. A. Neresheimer, F. M.\nPierce, H. T. Patterson, and H. Coryn from New York, and Clark Thurston\nfrom Providence.\n\nAn illustration is given in this issue of the Headquarters Building at\n144 Madison Avenue, New York, showing the office and book-store of the\nTheosophical Publishing Company, on the first floor. The offices of the\nUniversal Brotherhood and the Theosophical Society in America are on the\nsecond floor.\n\n[Illustration: Central Office of the Universal Brotherhood Organization,\nthe Theosophical Society in America, and the Theosophical Publishing\nCompany.]\n\nJanuary 13th was the 1st anniversary of the founding of the Universal\nBrotherhood Organization. The second year of U. B. has begun and we can\nnow look back and see how great a work has been done during the past\nyear. But more than all, one may know what this work has been, by simply\nlooking into his own heart. It has been a year of great effort; of trial\nto some; but has resulted in joy to all who have worked unselfishly in\nour glorious cause and who have followed faithfully the guidance of our\ngreat Leader. I have heard many say recently that it seemed as though a\nnew spring had begun, that they felt so happy they wanted to sing. There\ndoes indeed seem to be a new energy awakening and certainly never before\nhas there been such a happy harmonious household and staff as at present\nat Headquarters, nor have we ever had such bright and harmonious\nmeetings.\n\nBut this is not only true of New York and the Headquarters but of the\nwhole organization from Boston and the East, from Fort Wayne, Chicago,\nPittsburg, Macon, and Lodges too numerous to mention, from the whole\nPacific Coast and the North West come the same tidings of new hope, new\nstrength, new achievements. Truly, U.B. 2 has begun auspiciously.\n\nJ. H. FUSSELL.\n\n\nTACOMA, WASHINGTON.\n\nJan. 9, 1899.\n\nDEAR COMRADE:\u2014I have your favor of 3d inst. and am fully convinced that\nyou are right in the references and hopes you express for the year 1899.\nOur local U. B. organization is in good shape, we never were able before\nto work so unitedly and loyally and the efforts from all the members\nseem now to strengthen that unity.\n\nYes, we are all looking forward to Point Loma in many respects. Many of\nour members are planning to go down and I only wish we could all go and\nhope we may be able.\n\nR. H. LUND.\n\n\nA SPLENDID RECORD.\n\n              UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD LODGE NO. 7, AMERICA,\n              California Academy of Sciences Building,\n              Room 30, 819 Market Street,       San Francisco.\n\nSecretary\u2019s Annual Report for Year Ending December 21, 1898.\n\nOFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD LODGE NO. 7, AMERICA.\n\nCOMRADES:\u2014Your secretary begs leave to report as follows concerning the\nclosing year:\n\nThe year\u2019s work shows a gratifying increase in results. In order to be\nexact your secretary gives the figures as shown by the minutes of the\nyear: 547 meetings were held, with an attendance of 41,150, as against\n478 meetings and 36,279 attendance in 1897, an increase of 14 per cent.\nin the number of meetings and of 13-1/2 per cent. in attendance; 481\naddresses were delivered at these meetings by 65 speakers.\n\nThe highest total weekly attendance was 1060; the lowest 605; average\n791.\n\nThe most noticeable increase is in the case of the International\nBrotherhood League, which began the year with an average attendance of\n78, and closes the twelve-month with an average attendance of 170, a\ngain of 118 per cent.\n\nThe Lotus Group shows a gain of 18 per cent., as compared with 1897, and\nLodge meetings a gain of 29 per cent. The attendance of visitors at the\nLibrary increased 16 per cent., and of members at meetings of Pacific\nCoast Committee for Universal Brotherhood 98 per cent.\n\nThe especial attention of members is called to the Ethical Class and\nSecret Doctrine Class as being the most important local channels for the\nacquirement of a knowledge of ethics and philosophy. The Ethical Class\nshows a gain of 35 per cent., and the Secret Doctrine Class 33 per cent.\nfor the year.\n\nThe work at San Quentin Penitentiary was resumed in August, under the\ndirection of H. H. Somers, after a suspension of more than a year.\nLectures are given monthly, and the chapel is always filled with\nlisteners.\n\nA private meeting of U. B. L. No. 7 was instituted in October, two\nmeetings being held each month. Beginning with January this meeting will\nbe held regularly every Thursday evening, and is expected to accomplish\nmuch good by way of bringing members into closer sympathy with each\nother.\n\nYour secretary\u2019s annual report one year ago showed that 1897 had been\nthe most prosperous year in the history of the movement in this city. By\nthe present report it is seen that 1898 far surpasses the previous year,\nand this in the face of financial distress and general unrest. The\nprediction is ventured that 1899 will bring a still greater need of\nsuccess, for it is the beginning of a California cycle. In 1849 the name\nof California was emblazoned before the world. The closing year marks\nthe passing of the seventh septenate of the cycle, and 1899 will usher\nin the new cycle which is to bring California again before the notice of\nthe world, but this time as the depository of spiritual gold.\n\nThis report would be incomplete without reference to the Chicago\nConvention, held on February 18, 1898, at which time the Universal\nBrotherhood, or the Brotherhood of Humanity, was promulgated under the\nleadership of Mrs. Katherine A. Tingley, and of which the Theosophical\nSociety in America and the International Brotherhood League became\nintegral parts. San Francisco Branch at once transformed itself into a\nLodge of Universal Brotherhood, becoming Lodge 7\u2014the mystic number\u2014and\nthe results of the year are ample justification of the action taken.\n\nThere were a few defections from the Society because of its expansion,\nbut the record shows that the result was in no wise serious for the\norganization. An organization, like a human body, is made up of atoms or\nlives, and as growth proceeds these atoms are constantly changing their\nposition and passing into and out of the body. The correspondence is\nvery similar, except that in the case of this organization it is not the\nlaw of fatality which expels the atoms, but each has the free will to\nmaintain his position in the growing body if he so desires, or to leave\nit. Each will choose as he desires, and we have not the right to attempt\nto compel them. We have but to perform our full duty in every department\nof our lives, and the recorders of karma will adjust the conditions and\nthe result.\n\nI congratulate the members of Universal Brotherhood Lodge No. 7 on the\nwork of the closing year and the prospects of the coming one.\n\nFraternally,\n\nAMOS J. JOHNSON, Secretary.\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, December 21, 1898.\n\n\nLOTUS HOME.\n\nBUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1898.\n\nDEAR LEADER:\u2014\n\nI wish it were in my power to express to you all the sweetness and quiet\njoy of the first Christmas, at Lotus Home, and the only thing that was\nlacking, was the presence (in the physical body) of the precious \u201cLotus\nMother,\u201d for it was such a delightful experience, so full of hope and\npromise, that we wanted you there to share it with us.\n\nTruly the spirit of \u201cPeace on Earth, Good Will to all Men\u201d brooded over\nthe Home and spread its wings over all that are working and ministering\nto the tiny \u201cBuds\u201d there.\n\nIt is wonderful to see the improvement in them as the days go on, since\nDr. Kean has taken them in hand; she understands all their little needs\nand with Miss Morris\u2019 gentle and unceasing care and attention they are\ngrowing as strong and beautiful as the most exacting could desire.\n\nThe atmosphere surrounding them is so serene and full of unselfish\nbrotherly love that the unfoldment into health and beauty of mind and\nbody has begun early, and we feel sure that they will grow to lovely\n\u201cBlossoms by and bye\u201d and be workers for Humanity on the broadest lines\nof \u201cUniversal Brotherhood.\u201d\n\nThere was the Christmas Tree, filled with lights and all the \u201cshining\nthings,\u201d and the sweet odor of the fragrant boughs filled the rooms, the\nbabies and all the household gathered around it with the members of our\nfamily also, at twilight, and if any one thinks a lot of wee babies do\nnot enjoy the fun of a Christmas tree, let them come here and see\n\u201cours,\u201d they stared and laughed and took in all the loveliness, as\nwisely as the older ones of us. Little Katherine was so overcome with\nprolonged staring and nodding her head with approval, that she fell\nasleep in the midst of it, no doubt continuing the lovely vision in her\ndreams.\n\nLittle Grace with the rosy cheeks and laughing blue eyes had grown to\nthe dignity of short clothes on Christmas day, and though but five\nmonths old she sat in her fine new high chair and crowed and laughed\naloud with glee just as though she were years old instead of months\nonly.\n\nWee Edith, our frailest Bud, is frail no longer, but is growing stronger\nand rosier every day, and her great wonderful eyes look as if they held\na store of untold things, which she will give to the world some day, in\nsong or verse.\n\nOn Christmas Eve a new-comer appeared, little \u201cmerry Christmas\u201d and on\nChristmas day another; this one we didn\u2019t know what to call for the time\nbeing, but little \u201cMiss Newcome,\u201d and that made six small workers for\nhumanity at Lotus Home on Christmas day.\n\nThe household is now composed of twelve persons, Dr. Kean, Supt.; Miss\nMorris, assistant Supt.; the Housekeeper; the Maid of all work (who by\nthe way is a jewel); the Man of all work; and the new nursery maid; with\nthe six babies making the twelve.\n\nQuite a household, for so short a time since the work was begun, and it\nwill continue to grow for it is getting to be better known all the\nwhile.\n\nWe have received an appropriation from the County of $600. We are very\nglad to get this, it will help us through the winter and in spring we\nhope to have an entertainment that will bring us over $200.\n\nI have no words at my command, dear Mother, to express all I feel in\nregard to our blessed work here, and of my appreciation of the great\nprivilege you have bestowed upon us here, in permitting us to help on\nour great Cause in this practical and substantial way, but you know my\nheart, and what I lack in beautiful language, I hope I can make up in\nfaithful work.\n\nTHERESA Y. STEVENS.\n\n\nHOME CRUSADE IN IRELAND.\n\nOn December 7th the Crusaders, Mrs. A. L. Cleather and Bro. Basil Crump,\nwent to Dublin for the first time, where they enjoyed the real Irish\nhospitality of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Dick. Ireland is a dreamy country, and\nits people are extremely diffident and hard to interest in anything\nnovel. The deep interest of those who came to the Wagner lecture was,\ntherefore, no less a surprise to the local workers than the unusually\nlong and appreciative reports which appeared in the principal Dublin\npapers. It was a significant fact that, although the reporters were\nsupplied with a complete summary of the lecture, they stayed to the end,\nand gave money for the children\u2019s work. This lecture was on Friday, the\n9th; Saturday, Sunday, and Monday were occupied with U. B. and private\nmeetings, interviews, and general routine work. On Tuesday the\nchildren\u2019s entertainment took place in the Rotunda. A number of Dublin\nladies interested in philanthropic work came to help, and a gentleman\nvery kindly operated the lantern. All were delighted, and said it was\nquite as much a lesson for them as for the little ones. There is no\ndoubt that this work will be carried forward in Dublin. Each visitor\nasked for a portrait of Mrs. Tingley.\n\nEarly on Wednesday morning the Crusaders, Mrs. Cleather and Bro. Crump,\nleft Dublin to help at the\n\n\nBROTHERHOOD BAZAAR IN LIVERPOOL.\n\nThey were met by Secretary Herbert Crooke and Brother H. M. Savage, and\nstayed along with Brother Cranstone Woodhead at the \u201cMitre\u201d Hotel. Some\nvery advantageous arrangements had been made, so that the Bazaar started\non a favorable financial basis. A beautiful picture, sent by Brother R.\nMachell, R. B. A., was splendidly displayed in a large shop window in\nLord Street, and attracted an immense amount of public attention.\n\nThe Committee were singularly happy in securing the sympathetic services\nof Mr. R. Holt and Mrs. Jeannie Mole to open the Bazaar on the first and\nsecond days respectively. They both made speeches which came straight\nfrom the heart, and their appreciation of the work now being done by the\nMovement along practical lines was an object lesson to all in the\nforesight and wisdom of our Leader. Brother T. Baker\u2019s orchestra\nprovided excellent music, the refreshments were daintily served by lady\nworkers in tasteful costumes, and on the seven stalls there was a\nprofusion of articles for sale. We understand that the total receipts\namounted to upwards of \u00a3150, and we warmly congratulate the Committee on\nthis highly successful result.\n\n\nBRISTOL.\n\nBristol reports an increase of attendence, due to copies of the _New\nCentury_ being placed in the public libraries. _New Century_\ndistribution is highly important work. When the hour shall strike, when\nwe have given it that unqualified support that it demands of us, it will\nthen speak right into the people\u2019s hearts in clear and simple language,\nso that none need longer question the \u201cnobility of their calling,\u201d or\nagain forget their \u201ctrue position in life.\u201d C. O.\n\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\nThe Lodge is flourishing, and the sole topic is the \u201cBazaar.\u201d The\nThursday evening meetings have been very interesting during November.\n\nOn Sunday, November 20th, Brother Bern lectured on \u201cMusic.\u201d\n\nOn the 24th November Brother Crooke gave an excellent lecture on \u201cKing\nSolomon\u2019s Seal.\u201d To all our brethren, greeting.\u2014J. F. CROPPER.\n\nFrom _The Crusader_, Dec. 27, 1898.\n\n\nHOLLAND.\n\nWe know that you are in a whirlwind of work. Here, too, we are, after\nour own way in a whirlwind of the same kind, and things are going well.\nWe are busy with preparations for our Lotus circle, etc., and, as for U.\nB. work, it goes in every way as far as our means allow. Inward work is\nvery good, and the true members are coming nearer to each other in\nconscious unity. We only know our Leader here, and try to follow her.\n\nH. DE N.\n\n\n\n\n                  UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD ORGANIZATION.\n\n                \u201cSlowly the Bible of the race is writ,\n                Each age, each kindred adds a verse to it.\u201d\n\nUniversal Brotherhood or the Brotherhood of Humanity is an organization\nestablished for the benefit of the people of the earth and all\ncreatures.\n\nThis organization declares that Brotherhood is a fact in nature. The\nprincipal purpose of this organization is to teach Brotherhood,\ndemonstrate that it is a fact in nature and make it a living power in\nthe life of humanity.\n\nThe subsidiary purpose of this organization is to study ancient and\nmodern religion, science, philosophy and art; to investigate the laws of\nnature and the divine powers in man.\n\nThis Brotherhood is a part of a great and universal movement which has\nbeen active in all ages.\n\nEvery member has the right to believe or disbelieve in any religious\nsystem or philosophy, each being required to show that tolerance for the\nopinions of others which he expects for his own.\n\nThe Theosophical Society in America is the Literary Department of\nUniversal Brotherhood.\n\nThe International Brotherhood League is the department of the\nBrotherhood for practical humanitarian work.\n\nThe Central Office of the Universal Brotherhood Organization is at 144\nMadison Avenue, New York City.\n\n\nTHE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD LEAGUE.\n\n(_Unsectarian._)\n\n              \u201cHelping and sharing is what Brotherhood means.\u201d\n\nThis organization affirms and declares that Brotherhood is a fact in\nNature, and its objects are:\n\n1. To help men and women to realize the nobility of their calling and\ntheir true position in life.\n\n2. To educate children of all nations on the broadest lines of Universal\nBrotherhood and to prepare destitute and homeless children to become\nworkers for humanity.\n\n3. To ameliorate the condition of unfortunate women, and assist them to\na higher life.\n\n4. To assist those who are, or have been, in prison, to establish\nthemselves in honorable positions in life.\n\n5. To endeavor to abolish capital punishment.\n\n6. To bring about a better understanding between so-called savage and\ncivilized races, by promoting a closer and more sympathetic relationship\nbetween them.\n\n7. To relieve human suffering resulting from flood, famine, war, and\nother calamities; and generally to extend aid, help, and comfort to\nsuffering humanity throughout the world.\n\nIt should be noted that the officers and workers of the International\nBrotherhood League are unsalaried and receive no remuneration, and this,\nas one of the most binding rules of the organization, _effectually\nexcludes those who would otherwise enter from motives of self-interest_.\n\nNone of the officers hold any political office, the League is not\nconnected with any political party or organization, nor has it any\npolitical character, it is wholly humanitarian and unsectarian.\n\n\nTHE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA.\n\nThis Society was formed in 1875 under the name of the Theosophical\nSociety, by H. P. Blavatsky, assisted by W. Q. Judge and others;\nreorganized in April, 1895, by W. Q. Judge under the name of the\nTheosophical Society in America, and in February, 1898, became an\nintegral part of Universal Brotherhood Organization.\n\nThe principal purpose of this Society is to publish and disseminate\nliterature relating to Theosophy, Brotherhood, ancient and modern\nreligions, philosophy, sciences and arts.\n\nIts subsidiary purpose is to establish and build up a great library, in\nwhich shall be gathered ancient and modern literature of value to the\ngreat cause of Universal Brotherhood.\n\n\nSCHOOL FOR THE REVIVAL OF THE LOST MYSTERIES OF ANTIQUITY AT POINT LOMA,\nSAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A.\n\nAlthough American in centre, this school is international in\ncharacter\u2014\u201ca temple of living light, lighting up the dark places of the\nearth.\n\n\u201cThrough this School and its branches the children of the race will be\ntaught the laws of physical life, and the laws of physical, moral, and\nmental health and spiritual unfoldment. They will learn to live in\nharmony with nature. They will become passionate lovers of all that\nbreathes. They will grow strong in an understanding of themselves, and\nas they gain strength they will learn to use it for the good of the\nwhole world.\u201d\n\nThe Leader and Official Head wishes it known that there is an Eastern\nand Esoteric School in which a very large number of the earnest members\nof the UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD throughout the world are pupils. At present\nthere is no institution where students go to learn these teachings. The\nstudies are carried on in each group under directions from the centre in\nNew York.\n\nIn the School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity there\nwill be an Esoteric Department, in which the higher teachings will be\ngiven to such pupils of the Eastern and Esoteric School as are prepared\nto receive them.\n\n\nTHE ISIS LEAGUE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA (OF THE ART DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSAL\nBROTHERHOOD).\n\nThe Isis League of Music and Drama is composed of persons carefully\nselected by the Foundress, who are interested in the advancement of\nmusic and the drama to their true place in the life of humanity. Its\nobjects are:\n\n(_a_) To accentuate the importance of Music and the Drama as vital\neducative factors.\n\n(_b_) To educate the people to a knowledge of the true philosophy of\nlife by means of dramatic presentations of a high standard and the\ninfluence of the grander harmonies of music.\n\nHeadquarters: 144 Madison Avenue, New York City, and at Point Loma, San\nDiego, California.\n\n\nOBITUARY.\n\nWe deeply regret to record the passing away on Dec. 30, of Bro. H. T.\nLotter, one of the most faithful and earnest workers in Kansas City,\nafter an illness lasting since last Aug. The following resolutions were\npassed by Lodge No. 47 of Universal Brotherhood, Kansas City, Mo.\n\n_Whereas_ In the economy of Nature, all is subject to change, that which\nwe see being the blossom of seed sown in the long ago in the yesterdays\nof Eternity which in their turn shall bear seed for futurity\u2019s growth;\nand\n\n_Whereas_ Time in its onward sweep has closed the Cycle of Active life\nof him who was erstwhile known to us as Henry T. Lotter gathering for\nfurther unfoldment the ripened fruit of an Earth life; now therefore be\nit\n\nRESOLVED That in the passing hence of brother Lotter this lodge loses an\nearnest, enthusiastic and untiring worker in the Cause, its members a\nstaunch, sincere and kind brother and an amiable and gracious friend;\nand further be it\n\nRESOLVED That in token of our love and esteem, flowers shall be placed\non the rostrum at the public meetings to be held Jan. 8, 15, 22d and\nthat three members be appointed to address the audience in memoriam,\nalso be it\n\nRESOLVED That our recollections of him can best be kept in our memories,\nby making his conduct in life our standard of duty.\n\nCHAS. E. HUNGERFORD, Pres.\n\nJ. FRANK KNOCHE, Sec.\n\nWe have also received notice of the passing away from earth-life of two\nof the oldest workers on the Pacific Coast, Bro. Theodore G. Ed. Wollet\nof San Francisco, on Dec. 12th, aged 70 years, and Dr. John S. Cook of\nSacramento, on Dec. 30th. 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Clear, concise, lucid, it covers the\nground in a such a manner as to give the beginner a thorough and\nconnected idea of the fundamental teachings of what is called Theosophy.\nThis it does in a manner greatly in advance of everything purporting to\nexplain the same subjects in a form for general circulation.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONTENTS. Theosophy and the Masters: General Principles: The Earth\nChain: Septenary Constitution of Man: Body and Astral Body: Kama\u2014Desire:\nManas: Of Reincarnation: Arguments Supporting Reincarnation: Karma: Kama\nLoka: Devachan: Cycles: Differentiation of Species\u2014Missing Links:\nPsychic Laws, Forces, and Phenomena: Psychic Phenomena and Spiritualism.\n\nPages 9 and 154; 16mo, paper and cloth.\n\nWe will forward the book, post-paid,\n\n=In Paper Binding, 25 cents.=\n\n=In Cloth Binding, 50 cents.=\n\nTHE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO.,\n144 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nDIRECTORY OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD LODGES.\n\nPUBLIC MEETINGS ARE HELD AS FOLLOWS:\n\n=ARKANSAS.=\n\n=Hot Springs.= 202 Reserve Ave. Sunday, 3 P. M.\n\n=CALIFORNIA.=\n\n=San Francisco.= 819 Market St. Sunday and Tuesday, 8 P. M. Class,\nFriday, 8 P. M. Lotus Group, Sunday, 11 A. M.\n\n=Stockton.= Masonic Temple, Room 12. Sunday and Tuesday, 8 P. 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M.\n\n_Please mention_ UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD _when you write advertisers_.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\nMissing or obscured punctuation was corrected.\n\nTypographical errors were silently corrected.\n\nSpelling and hyphenation were made consistent when a predominant form\nwas found in this book; otherwise it was not changed.\n\nText in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).\n\nText in bold face is enclosed by equals signs (=bold=).","title":"Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 11, February 1899: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and Art","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":31232}