228 THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF MAN 



intended that man should attain to it? Man was 

 born and bred in hardship that he might be a hero. 



" Careless seems the great avenger ; history's pages but record 

 One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and 



the word ; 

 Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, 

 Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim un- 

 known 

 Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his 

 own. 



" Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched 

 crust, 



Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to 

 be just ; 



Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands 

 aside. 



Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, 



And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had de- 

 nied." 



The Crown Prince of Prussia has less spending 

 money than many a young fellow in Berlin. He is 

 trained to economy, industry, self-control. He is to 

 learn something better than habits of luxury, to rule 

 himseK, and thus later the German Empire. The 

 children of a great captain, themselves to be soldiers, 

 must endure hardness like good soldiers. And man 

 is to fight his way to a throne. 



But his powers are still in their infancy and the 

 goal far above him. What he is to become you and I 

 can hardly appreciate. First of all, the body will be- 

 come finer, fitted for nobler ends. It will not be al- 

 lowed to degenerate. It may become less fitted for 

 the rough work, which can be done by machinery ; it 



