age and yawning almshouses are not for him. He owns 

 himself he does what he wishes he says what he 

 thinks, and neither priest nor politician dare cry, hist ! 

 So we get the paradox : the only perfect freedom is to 

 be found in a monarchy. "A Republic," said Schopen- 

 hauer, " is a land that is ruled by the many, that is to 

 say by the incompetent." But, of course, Schopen- 

 hauer knew nothing of the American primary, devised 

 by altruistic Hibernians for the purpose of defeating 

 the will of the incompetent many. 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



RNST H^ECKEL was born in 1834, and 

 consequently, he is just seventy years 

 old at this writing. His parents were plain 

 people, neither rich nor poor and of such 

 is the Kingdom of Heaven. 

 The greatest error one can make in life, is 

 not to be well born; failing in this, a man struggles 

 through life under an awful handicap. 

 Hseckel formed the habit of steady, systematic work, 

 in youth, and untiring effort has been the rule of his 

 life. Man was made to be well, and he was made to 

 work. It is only work which is the constant effort to 

 retain equilibrium that makes life endurable. So we 

 find Hseckel now, at three-score-and-ten, a model of 

 manly vigor, with all the eager, curious, receptive 

 qualities of youth a happy man, but one who knows 

 that happiness lies on the way to heaven, and not in 

 arriving there and sitting down to enjoy it. 



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