greatest have learned more after thirty than before thirty. For the thinking that you do is the really important part of education, and sound thinking comes after thirty.

If you have not a good education, you can get it at no cost. It is all in the books and inspiration and happiness as well.

Read good books.

Give your children an opportunity in life, if they are brilliant in the ordinary sense of the term, and learn easily; don't force them, hold them back.

If they are called "dull," remember you made them. They did not make themselves. A child can have only what its father and mother give it; if the child seems to be lacking, let the father and mother blame themselves and try to make up in the child's life for that which was lacking in its birth.

FIVE YEARS' WAR

In five years, this stupid earth spent on war, killing and destroying, more than three hundred thousand millions of dollars. If a man spent ten times his yearly revenue in one drunken, murderous debauch, he would have to save and suffer for some time. That is what the world will have to do.

"What will the future show? You can never tell," says Mr. Brisbane. Thirty years ago Henry Ford was a poor mechanic. Today he pays the largest income tax in the world. Where will you be in thirty years?

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Every Day That the Sun Rises

This World is Better

Each day, for millions of years, the beautiful sun has risen upon this continent, or upon the great waste of waters that covered what is a continent today. Each rising of the sun found the earth better, nearer the perfection that is the earth's destiny. What the sun is to this material planet, education, the sun of knowledge and progress, is to the human mind. Its rising drives away clouds, promises the new, better day.

You do not know this earth or its beauty, unless you have seen the sun rise-often.

The dark night softens and loses power. The stars, soon to be conquered by the great star nearest to us, grow dim as a greater light approaches. Those other stars, each in its distant spot, tell of the work that is done by light and power on endless millions of planets throughout the infinite universe.

Blackness changes to gray that is almost black. The trees become distinct. The birds wake up and with twittering and fluttering prepare for another day.

Toward the east the sky becomes softer, the light of dawn spreads across the fields, and then come the first rays shooting upward against the round surface of our earth to tell that the great sun is coming.

To the eye and the imagination of man nothing is more impressive than that rising sun, increasing imperceptibly, yet with marvelous speed from the faintest beginning of light to the full splendor of brilliant day.