By it we can best link up the actual and the ideal, and demonstrate the single character of human greatness; whether it be exhibited, in the physical or the supersensual sphere.

Such a demonstration is most important; for so long as the spiritual life is regarded as merely a departmental thing, and its full development as a matter for specialists or saints, it will never produce its full effect in human affairs.

We must exhibit it as the full flower of that Reality which inspires all human life.

_"All_ kinds of skill," said Tauler, "are gifts of the Holy Ghost," and he might have said, all kinds of beauty and all kinds of courage too.
The heroic makes a direct appeal to lads and girls, and is by far the safest way of approach to their emotions.

The chivalrous, the noble, the desperately brave, attract the adolescent far more than passive goodness.