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superseded by this unarmed child. Love will creep where it cannot go, will accomplish that by imperceptible methods, --- being its own lever, fulcrum, and power, --- which force could never achieve. Have you not seen in the woods, in a late autumn morning, a poor fungus or mushroom, --- a plant without any solidity, nay, that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly, --- by its constant, total, and inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head? It is the symbol of the power of kindness. The virtue of this principle in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success. This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind. But one day all men will be lovers; and every calamity will be dissolved in the universal sunshine.

Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man the reformer? The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world should have a great prospective prudence. An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying,

"Sunshine was he
In the winter day;
And in the midsummer
Coolness and shade."