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ABOUT PEOPLE.

trust far more than we think we do, we could not endure the misery of others. Immortality finds strong ground for belief in our trust that our longings cannot be deceived. And if we trust, unconsciously to ourselves, that feeling has shown itself in the light of our eye and the elasticity of our steps. "God's in his heaven; all's right with the world," sings Pippa. We sing it, too, though her God and our God may have little alike except the trust we give to each.

With trust comes that element of character which, starting in childhood, has not its full value until the intellectual nature of the man or woman has weighed the problems of life and the secrets of knowledge. Reverence, without which no poet is a seer, no scientist a lover of truth; reverence, reaching from the commonest fact to the grandest discovery; from the humblest impulse to the noblest deed. Our reverence

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