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of loneliness and has maintained her self-respect and
the respect of her fellow beings, asked recently why
the women of history were, as a rule, so disreputable
in conduct, and why time continued to emblazon their
names with immortality. She did not understand the
law of thought; she did not realize that thought is
energy, and that negative virtue and quiet and placid
mental conditions achieve little for an individual, or
for the race at large.
Goodness and virtue and all the qualities which go
toward the constructive forces of nature ought to be vital and intense. Only so can they combat the
destructive forces in the world.
Many a good woman has placidly loved her husband and been forgotten by him and the world; but
the world remembers Heloise and Cleopatra because
they loved intensely.
However misdirected the love may have been, it
was yet a vital flame that burned its path along the
centuries and commanded the memory of the world.
It has been the trend of modern education to eradicate all intense feeling from the heart of the race.
The education which does this for humanity
destroys all possible hope of great achievements for
the future.
Many of the great people of history were possessed
of the same force which is contained in destructive
lightning. It behooves us not to do away with lightning, but to direct its power into radiant energy, into
beneficent electricity.
Then we may all become "Saviors of the World"
and hasten the millennium of universal peace.
That era can never be brought about by international congresses of amiable, good-intentioned people,
who meet and mildly talk over their theories.
