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exact knowledge, faced the problem of existence 

 more than a score of centuries ago, I deem it an 

 essential condition of the realization of that hope 

 that we should cast aside the notion that the es- 

 cape from pain and sorrow is the proper object 

 of life. 



We have long since emerged from the heroic 

 childhood of our race, when good and evil could 

 be met with the same " frolic welcome "; the at- 

 tempts to escape from evil, whether Indian or 

 Greek, have ended in flight from the battle-field; 

 it remains to us to throw aside the youthful over- 

 confidence and the no less youthful discourage- 

 ment of nonage. We are grown men, and must 

 play the man 



strong in will 

 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield, 



cherishing the good that falls in our way, and 

 bearing the evil, in and around us, with stout 

 hearts set on diminishing it. So far, we all may 

 strive in one faith towards one hope: 



It may be that the gulfs will wash us down, 

 It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, 



.... but something ere the end. 



Some work of noble note may yet be done. (") 



