Together we could find a way, and what was more, that I could share my optimism and courage with them and that would help.

But vigorous exertion and keen interest in the future brought back his optimism.

The farmers are to be protected and encouraged as they never have been since the Cobdenite revolution; and the Corn Production Bill now passing through Parliament shows what the grim lesson of this war has done to change the old and easy optimism of our people.

And officers arriving on leave at Victoria at 2 A.M. are driven to the conclusion that they are sent back to England from time to time to check their optimism, which at the front survives even being sent to so-called rest camps in the middle of a malodorous marsh for nine hours' military training per diem.

Mayor William S. Jordan, at a Democratic banquet in Jacksonville, said of optimism: "Let us cultivate optimism and hopefulness.

His letters were always cheery, and his repeated disappointments in overseers never damped his optimism concerning each new incumbent.

But to set out for a foreign land with no backing whatever in the hope of accomplishing that which no American salesman had ever been able to accomplish, and to finance the undertaking out of his own pocket on a sum less than he would have expected for cigarette moneywell, it was an enterprise to test a fellow's courage and to dampen the most youthful optimism.

From the deplorable insight with which he describes the nerveless, underfed, compulsory optimism of these poor in spirit and poor in hope Gissing might almost have been an 'odd woman' himself.

He came down and ate supper with us at a trestle table in the dimly lighted dining-room, and I encouraged his new-born optimism by ordering two bottles of whisky to take upstairs.

And each, moreover, exhibited the same amazing optimism, which is, perhaps, a sure sign of a mind not quite balanced.

It in surely extending optimism too far to insist on carrying it back right through the ages.

In view of the indescribable misery in the world, to favor optimism is evidence not so much of folly and blindness as of a wanton disposition.

The great slaughter early in the war gave a false optimism not only to Germans, but also to visitors.

I can not think that this would imperil the fruitful optimisms of the Christian life.

The time came when Octavian, after Actium, reunited the Empire with a firm hand and justified the buoyant optimism which Vergil, almost alone of his generation, had been able to preserve.

He lacked the optimism of Browning and the faith of Tennyson.

The manager of one of the New York City street railways met with complete denial the easy optimism that adequate remuneration will command a sufficient supply of men.

Your University professors are bound to preach optimism; and it is an easy and agreeable task to upset their theories.

The postmaster declared that there was lots of water, but qualified his optimism by saying that it was falling fast.

Fries and Beneke declare that a speculative knowledge of the suprasensible is impossible, and seek to base philosophy on empirical psychology; to the monism (panlogism) of the idealists Herbart opposes a pluralism, to their philosophy of becoming, a philosophy of being; Schopenhauer rejects their optimism, denying rationality to the world and the world-ground.

That took straight, native optimism and the courage to make the best of things.

In the face of such a world, even when partially made intelligible in ideal art, dare we assert that fatalistic optimism which would have it that the universe is in God's eyes a perfect world?

Per contra we welcome the optimism of Mr. Asquith in discussing new Votes of Credit, though he reminds us of Micawber calculating his indebtedness for the benefit of Traddles.