Parables for school and home .. . mprovements on the oldmodes of travelling in mud and mire; but whatare they now to the railroad and the steam andelectric cars? and what will these be to the fly-ing-machine which any of you may hve to see?One success calls for another and a grander suc-cess, which we name our ideal; and as soon aswe overtake it a fresh ideal starts up, and wehave to go in pursuit of that. Then everythingbehind us seems a failure, though each failure hashelped us on the road to success—or rather onthe road to perfection—and this road has no mind, we must still press
Parables for school and home .. . mprovements on the oldmodes of travelling in mud and mire; but whatare they now to the railroad and the steam andelectric cars? and what will these be to the fly-ing-machine which any of you may hve to see?One success calls for another and a grander suc-cess, which we name our ideal; and as soon aswe overtake it a fresh ideal starts up, and wehave to go in pursuit of that. Then everythingbehind us seems a failure, though each failure hashelped us on the road to success—or rather onthe road to perfection—and this road has no mind, we must still press forward. Theroad is steep and slippery with ice—no matter:Excelsior! Upward, still upward! One of usfalls in the snow: it is Toussaint, murdered byNapoleon, but his country is now a land of free-men; or it is the Italian patriot of 1848, shotdead at Peschiera, but his country too at last isfree—the Austrians have left it forever. Excel-sior ! Each one must do his best, and all endure,And all endeavor, hoping but not Alamz. XIV SUPERSTITION. NOBODY ought to leave SUPERSTITION NOBODY ought to leave school without learn-ing something about the art of art has now been practised by the people ofEurope and the rest of the civilized world for fourcenturies and a half. We are not quite certainwhere it was invented, but in all probability thistook place in the valley of the Rhine. Amongthe famous cities along the banks of that river isone called Mainz by the Germans, but which onthe map you will probably find spelt Mayence,after the French fashion. In that city is a pub-lic square, known as Gutenberg Square, in whichstands a statue of John Gutenberg, the man whofirst discovered how to print with movable what are types? Thousands upon thou-sands of people read printed books and news-papers all their lives without ever having visiteda printing-office, or really knowing or being curi-ous to know what types are and how they are are little pie
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