Modern machinery has thrown light upon the problems of the soul.

The engineer finds that his locomotive will not run itself, but waits for the steam to pound upon the piston.

The great ships also are becalmed until the trade winds come to beat upon the sails.

Informed by these physical facts, we now see a noble thought or ambition or social ideal is a mechanism that will not work itself, but asks the enthusiastic heart to lend power divine.

Some of earth's greatest orators, like Patrick Henry, have been unlearned men, but no orator has ever fallen short of being an enthusiastic man.