The chief planes of its enclosing solid are, of course, organization, education, condition.

Organization may reduce the power of the will to nothing, as in some idiots; and from this zero the scale mounts upwards by slight gradations.

Education is only second to nature.

Imagine all the infants born this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places! Condition does less, but "Give me neither poverty nor riches" was the prayer of Agur, and with good reason.

If there is any improvement in modern theology, it is in getting out of the region of pure abstractions and taking these every-day working forces into account.