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STRIVING.

IN Puritan homes each child was exhorted to do his "duty" until the word became so significant of outward observance that its heavenly relation was lost. Modern ethical homes have taken "right" as their banner motto, and though it is capable of rousing enthusiasm, the zeal it creates would be for ideas rather than persons. Both duty and right are impersonal terms; midway between them, in use and meaning, stands "character." Generally in speech the verb to have precedes this substantive, adding the idea of a personal possession to its abstract statement. As it is something to be got, and that getting is its

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