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ing as sin, apples of Sodom whose rind is half a continent. Here 

 are the chilblains of the frozen zones, which cool down the love of 

 the sun to a senile moonlight and night-heat for the poles as they 

 creak and grind in their ice. Here are the islands where elemental 

 anger begins, and infant hurricanes spin their tops. So much for 

 the inhuman map, and then for the human. Here are the savages, 

 and here the barbarians; here man is in the fulness of his present 

 stature, in the manufacturing heaven of Manchester, in the Arcady 

 of Ireland, or in the holy cities of Paris and London. If the map 

 has no other purpose, it shows that the world is still round, vast and 

 habitable; capable of intercommunication; it enlarges our ideas of 

 the field that duty has before it. In defect of maps founded on the 

 spherical whole, the ancients regarded the tropics as mystical fiery 

 lands where man could not live; and in defect of the psychical map, 

 we are become afraid, not without a show of prudence, of the richest 

 heats of the heart, which we regard as the realm of phantasmagoria 

 and monsters. Yet if tigers and snakes abound there, men also 

 may be found; moreover the sugars and spices and gold of both 

 kinds, moral as well as physical, can come from no other than those 

 sunniest rings. 



But in the meantime we are sure of one thing — that man must 

 work at his post, and not desert it, if he is to find health for his 

 heart. Want fools us, unless we drive it through our daily works. 

 Present circumstance is the top of desert, and the means of happi- 

 ness ; and it is in the reformation of our own fields, and no others, 

 that our future is to come. The statesman does not emigrate to 

 carry out his plans. And so, in like manner, it is not new but old 

 industry that is to become attractive, by a new heart given by hea- 

 ven during fair toil : it is not altered social relations that will make 

 us contented, but a better love in those which exist ; and it is not a 

 new world of men that we expect, but a conversion of the old to the 

 types of the commandments. The heart, as we have stated it, 

 prophesies how newly, under these circumstances, all things will 

 appear. 



We now pass on to the public health of the brain, which has two 

 parts; firstly, the mental and spiritual culture of the time, and 

 secondly, the national education. 



