The audience could not hear and called "Louder." "Get up higher," some one said.

"I can't," he replied.

"To be a Baptist is as high as one can get." But there is something higher than being a Baptist, and that is being a _man_.
As Emerson says, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one; not, is he rich?
is he committed?
is he well-meaning?
has he this or that faculty?
is he of the movement?
is he of the establishment?
but is he anybody?
does he stand for something?
He must be good of his kind.

That is all that Talleyrand, all that the common sense of mankind asks.
When Garfield as a boy was asked what he meant to be he answered: "First of all, I must make myself a man; if I do not succeed in that, I can succeed in nothing." Montaigne says our work is not to train a soul by itself alone, nor a body by itself alone, but to train a man.
One great need for the world to-day is for men and women who are good animals.

To endure the strain of our concentrated civilization, the coming man and woman must have good bodies and an excess of animal spirits.
What more glorious than a magnificent manhood, animated with the bounding spirits of overflowing health?
It is a sad sight to see thousands of students graduated every year from our grand institutions whose object is to make stalwart, independent, self-supporting men, turned out into the world saplings instead of stalwart oaks, "memory-glands" instead of brainy men, helpless instead of self-supporting, sickly instead of robust, weak instead of strong, leaning instead of erect.