exist for the true and lasting benefit of the governed and each individual and interest will receive just protection and not the abuse and neglect so often experienced today. It takes a long time for the world to learn that what hurts one is apt to hurt all, and unreasonable wages-high or low-unreasonable returns from a legitimate industrial or commercial investment-high or low-a false economic or political system and inordinate, unnecessary power vested in a few individuals, as well as class privileges or any violation of absolute justice and rightness, react to the detriment of the state and of its citizens.

The world abounds with men who bemoan their blocked avenues of progress, but these are the men who have never striven to improve their opportunities and fit themselves for more important duties. The man at the bench who never reads, studies or thinks, remains at the bench. The foreman supposedly skilled in certain arts, who continues day after day supervising the doing of the same things in the same way and never studying or striving to improve processes or the efficiency of operations, will not retain his foremanship indefinitely; he drifts back after many years to the ranks-a self-condemned victim of the law of progress and the survival of the fittest. The manager in command of any operation or phase of work, who rests on his oars, is self-satisfied, indolently indifferent to progress and ceases to strive for knowledge and a place in the van of progressive thought, must, in turn, yield to the thinker and worker who uses his brain, exercises his mental faculties and who, in his climbing, is never content

with any rung which his feet reach in the ladder of achievement, but always sees ahead the fields of possibility urging him forward to exploration and still further successes. No matter how faithful and zealous a man may be in his work, unless he is putting his mind fully into his work and utilizing a reasonable proportion of his few hours of spare time to improve and develop himself, and thus endeavoring to make the most of his inherent endowment, he is not a valuable man to an organization.

Education is the great uplifting force of the world. Mental development will remove all barriers between classes; many of the poorest boys are honored with the custodianship of the greatest brains in embryo, and will become leaders in the world's progress if they will but develop their potentialities. A man from his eyes down is worth, as a physical machine to perform work, $1.50 to $2.00 per day, but in the mart of labor from his eyes up his worth is immeasurable and, to a great extent, it is what he sees fit to make it. Many a man of one or two talents and with a well exercised brain will outstrip, in the race of life, men of five or ten talents, who either are not cognizant of their innate possibilities or have taken no steps to develop them. We have heard that man is only 50 per cent. efficient because of physical impairment, but we would all be staggered if we could see vividly and graphically portrayed on a chart our psychological efficiency,-our original endowment expressed in possibilities, compared with our actually realized or utilized mental powers.

It is about time for us to get away from the old

fashioned and mistaken notion that our education was completed when we left school. It had barely commenced. School should train one to learn, but true education comes as life advances and never ceases while life lasts. The world may despise and reject for a time, but it ultimately does homage to the man of mind and soul, to the man with well developed intellect who mentally is neither standing still nor drifting back, but who, battling and struggling against the current, uses his strength and time to make the most of himself, achieve some praiseworthy thing, no matter how little, in the battle of life and assist in the advance of the world one notch nearer the great goal of Cosmic perfection.

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,

But in ourselves are triumphs and defeat."

-Longfellow.

II

N all animal life there is a close correspondence

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between the degree of development of any or

gan or part of the physical structure and its functional power or activity. Size is generally an index of strength, provided we are dealing with similar materials under similar conditions; when the substances compared are the same and the quality of organism is uniform, size becomes an absolute measure of power. We cannot compare pine wood with cast iron, or cast iron with highly tempered steel, and in engineering work, even when specifying steel to fulfil a certain duty, we state its required ultimate tensile strength, elastic limit, ductility, general physical and, at times, chemical properties. We expect to find a blacksmith with a big arm, a wrestler with heavy shoulders, just as we may infer that the cranial capacity of man varies with his intellectual power.

When we compare the brains of different birds and quadrupeds, we find that mental activity is evidenced in proportion to the size of the brain considered in relation to the size of the body. Anthropologists tell us that a fox and a ground-hog have bodies of almost equal size but that the fox has a brain four times heavier than that of the groundhog. A turkey's brain is one-third less in size than that of a crow whose body is not one-fourth as large;