FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY 



E come back to the virtues, but we have left 

 the vices behind ; sure sign that Faith, 

 Hope, and Charity pass from dull earth to 

 the ether of pure ethics. 



All we can do then for our fellow 

 mortals is to point out, appealingly or 

 dogmatically as bias bids us, the slender grounds on which 

 any comparison can be made. 



For Faith and Hope such grounds are slender indeed. 

 Yet there is trust and to spare in the eyes of many a tamed 

 creature of the wilds. Surely nothing is more provocative 

 of humility in man than the undoubted fact that it is far 

 easier with a few exceptions to induce perfect trust of 

 humanity in an absolutely wild young creature than it is in 

 the young of parents who for generations have been domes- 

 ticated or semi-domesticated. Those who have a lift- 

 experience of rearing by hand all kinds of creatures know 

 this of a certainty. A young calf is more distrustful than a 

 a young deer, and young pheasants will croon into the empty 

 hand and sleep there when chickens will at best be enticed 

 thither by food. 



Dogs and cats are different, in that — taken young enough 



