Even the dreams of the philanthropist only tend towards equality; and where is equality to be found, but in the state of the savage?
No; I thought otherwise once; but I now regard the vast lazar-house around us without hope of relief:--Death is the sole Physician!" "Ah, no!" said the high-souled Madeline, eagerly; "do not take away from us the best feeling and the highest desire we can cherish.

How poor, even in this beautiful world, with the warm sun and fresh air about us, that alone are sufficient to make us glad, would be life, if we could not make the happiness of others!" Aram looked at the beautiful speaker with a soft and half-mournful smile.

There is one very peculiar pleasure that we feel as we grow older,--it is to see embodied in another and a more lovely shape the thoughts and sentiments we once nursed ourselves; it is as if we viewed before us the incarnation of our own youth; and it is no wonder that we are warmed towards the object, that thus seems the living apparition of all that was brightest in ourselves! It was with this sentiment that Aram now gazed on Madeline.

She felt the gaze, and her heart beat delightedly, but she sunk at once into a silence, which she did not break during the rest of their walk.
"I do not say," said Aram, after a pause, "that we are not able to make the happiness of those immediately around us.

I speak only of what we can effect for the mass.