Every life a delight . hed in popularfavor, while some practices, like that of bleeding, have beenalmost wholly discarded and driven out. Just in proportion as common people take up scientificstudies, finding recreation in demonstration and investigation,will the practical errors which have cursed mankind disappear,and safer and saner modes of life be adopted. As in the Church an educated laity compels pulpit ef-ficiency, so in all other departments of thought and progress awise people will drive the experts and specialists to more ac-curate conclusions. Happily, the people are studying, and w
Every life a delight . hed in popularfavor, while some practices, like that of bleeding, have beenalmost wholly discarded and driven out. Just in proportion as common people take up scientificstudies, finding recreation in demonstration and investigation,will the practical errors which have cursed mankind disappear,and safer and saner modes of life be adopted. As in the Church an educated laity compels pulpit ef-ficiency, so in all other departments of thought and progress awise people will drive the experts and specialists to more ac-curate conclusions. Happily, the people are studying, and will do so yet morein the future. Their reading circles will multiply and enlargeuntil they take in all sciences, all philosophies, and all depart-ments of literature. What will be the status 01 popular thought in a hundredyears from now? Would nt you like to live to see? Discoveriesinnumerable, marvelous, and fruitful will be made, and the boyat the plow will then know more of science than the old phi-losopher now. 143. 11 PEACI AT PEACE Peaceful people live in peace. It is the quarrelsome whoquarrel. Quarrels are no proof of courage. The brave are peaceableas long as they can be. Peace is mans natural state. War is an after intrusion, anda blot on manhood. Peace usually reigns where reason rules. Men get insanelymad and then fight. Blessed is the man who does not fight! Not because he hasno fight in him, but because he will not let it out. Nothing is much easier than to provoke unto wrath, andnothing more difficult than to appease wrath once provoked. A serious offense once given is hard to take back, and oncetaken, is hard to overcome. An enemy once made is not easily transformed into a has a memory. 144 Happy Inspirations After offending any one, you may explain and apologize,defend your attitude, and even prove that you were right; butthat offense will rankle, and the trace of it may never be eradi-cated. A mental hurt is very much like a physical malady, it gets
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