We have a whole chapter on Practical Life, on self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, full of portentous platitudes and ancient saws; St. Paul's doctrine of charity, and all that is best in the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, is liberated from its degrading association with the belief in a God who rewards and punishes.

Read the history of such families, and you will understand the truth of the poet's words: "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Only a great pride, that is, a great and reverential repose in one's own being, renders possible a noble humility, which is a great and reverential acknowledgment of the being of others; this humility in turn sustains a higher self-reverence; this again resolves itself into a more majestic humility; and so run, in ever enhancing wave, the great circles of inward honor and outward grace.

He had not learned then that all dreams must yield to self-reverence and self-growth.

As for snobbishness, was not the silly-child American brand of it less ridiculous than this unblushing and unconcealed self-reverence, without any physical, mental or material justification whatsoever?

Of the "self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control" needful to make a sound race they have an encouraging share.