'Ah!' it exclaims as it falls, 'why this rending ?' Then come saws to cut and fashion it; and humbled now, and willing to be nothing, it is borne away from the mountain and conveyed to the city.

Now it is chiseled and polished, till, at length, finished in beauty, by block and tackle it is raised, with mighty hoistings, high in air, to be the top-stone on some monument of the country's glory." "It is this scantiness of means, this continual deficiency, this constant hitch, this perpetual struggle to keep the head above water and the wolf from the door, that keeps society from falling to pieces.

Let every man have a few more dollars than he wants, and anarchy would follow." "Do you wish to live without a trial ?" asks a modern teacher.

"Then you wish to die but half a man.

Without trial you cannot guess at your own strength.