BY

JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE
AUTHOR OF "SELF-CULTURE,' ETC.

"Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope,
And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith;

Of blessed consolations in distress;

Of moral Strength and intellectual Power;
Of Joy in widest commonalty spread;

Of the individual Mind that keeps her own
Inviolate retirement, subject there
To Conscience only, and the law supreme
Of that Intelligence which governs all,
I sing."

WORDSWORTH.

BOSTON

TICKNOR AND COMPANY

1886

Copyright, 1886,

BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.

All rights reserved.

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

BX
9841
.05

£93

CONTENTS.

I. HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF LIFE

II. THE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH

III. THE RELIGION WHICH PASSES AWAY, AND

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VII.

VIII.

THE DUTY OF BEING UNFASHIONABLE

VOLUNTARY AND AUTOMATIC MORALITY.

IX. TRUE AND FALSE MANLINESS

X. THE RUDDER, COMPASS, CHART, AND

SAILS IN MAN.

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XI. MORAL MISALLIANCES

XIII. EVERY "Now" THE DAY OF SALVATION

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XVII. WHAT WILL MAKE US GENEROUS ?

XVIII. POWER AND AIM. .

XIX. VIS INERTIE IN NATURE AND LIFE

XX. THINK OF GOOD THINGS, NOT OF BAD

THINGS.

XXI. THE SIN WHICH BESETS US, AND THE

GOOD WHICH HELPS ÚS.

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XXV. MORAL MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS.

XXVI.

TRANSITION PERIODS.

XXVII. LOST OPPORTUNITIES.

XXVIII. THE ETHICS OF THE BALLOT-BOX

XXIX. THE BIBLE A PANORAMA OF LIFE.

THE

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