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intelligence. They are guardians of their character, abiding within their limitations, hard as it is to do so, and happy because needful to the spot in which they are placed. They create a home for others, not for themselves alone, sheltering others in the wide sense of caring for and helping them, often bringing them within their own four walls. One must make one's self, not one's house alone, into a home. This is done by hundreds who live in boarding-houses, whose affection is so large that it hides the smallness of their room. Above all, average persons have a large moral sense, and are apt to judge of use, power and beauty, of story and poem, by their moral effects. They involuntarily adopt means to ends as a principle of economic force; their sense of harmony expresses itself by their choice of whatever will best accomplish their purpose. They even are religious; their trust in a higher power, which they do or do not try to bring within the bounds of personality,