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men and women of history are at the same time infamous.
Reason will explain.
Concentration of thought, unswerving purpose and
intensity of feeling are what bring results in this life.
Whether this combination is directed to good or bad
objects, the result is obtained; the object is gained.
We remember those people because they were vital influences in the world; they felt, thought and
lived intensely. They lived selfish and evil lives, ofttimes because they knew no better; their aims were
unworthy of their mental endowments; but they
suffered the punishments of their own errors and sins
by the continual state of fear in which they dwelt; fear
that their schemes would be detected; that their plots
would be revealed; that their own confederates would
turn against them, as they frequently did, and fear of
assassination and poison from their enemies.
We cannot envy them their ill-gained power and
glory.
But we can learn from them the lesson of the law
of intense feeling and concentrated thought.
In this more enlightened age we know murder
does not pay; that anything which is gained at the cost
of another life is not worth while. We have grown
to where our statesmen do not murder one another
or their own children to gain power and position.
But if our philanthropic men, our great reformers
and our makers of thought to-day would put the same
amount of vital force into their undertakings which
actuated those wicked old celebrities, there is nothing
which might not be accomplished for the good of
humanity.
A good and bright woman, who has lived a long life
