MAJ^- 235 



and life. Such a man has no time nor care to think of 

 himself. To him it matters little whether he lives to 

 see the triumph of his cause, provided he can hasten 

 it. Though victory be in the future, it is sure ; and 

 the joy of battle for so sure and grand a triumph is 

 present reward enough. His very faith removes moun- 

 tains and turns to flight armies of the aliens. For 

 heroism begets faith, just as surely as faith begets 

 heroism. 



"Where there is no vision the people perish." 

 When the member of Congress can see nothing higher 

 than spoils of ofHce, nothing larger than a silver dollar, 

 you should not criticise the poor man if his oratorical 

 efforts do not move an audience like the sayings of 

 Webster, Lincoln, or Phillips. 



Future man will be heroic and divine, because he 

 wUl live in an atmosphere of truth and right and God, 

 and will be consciously inspired by these divine, om- 

 nipotent motives. 



But who will compose this future race ? We can- 

 not tell. And yet the attempt to answer the question 

 may open our eyes to truth of great practical impor- 

 tance. 



It would seem to be a fact that the offspring of a 

 cross between different races of the same species is as 

 a rule more vigorous than that of either pure race. 

 Human history seems to show the same result. The 

 English race is a mixture of Celts, Anglo-Saxons, 

 Danes, and Normans, with a sprinkling of other races. 

 And a new fusion of a great number of most diverse 

 strains is rapidly going on in the newly populated por- 

 tions of America and in Australia. The mixture con- 

 tains thus far almost purely occidental races. It will in 



