The sensibility to moral beauty, the forgetfulness of self in the admiration engendered by it, all prove its claim to a high moral influence.

It is the triumph of the unselfish over the selfish part of our nature." It is by means of this divine passion that the world is kept ever fresh and young.

It is the perpetual melody of humanity.

It sheds an effulgence upon youth, and throws a halo round age.

It glorifies the present by the light it casts backward, and it lightens the future by the beams it casts forward.