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Health, Longevity, Beauty, Are Other Names For Personal Purity; And Temperance Is The Regimen For All.

Travel Makes All Men Countrymen, Makes People Noblemen And Kings, Every Man Tasting Of Liberty And Dominion.

The History Of Religions, Of Which Christianity Is A Transcendent Element, Awaits The Deepest Study. It Requires Bibles To Free From Bibles. Comparative Theology Is The Best Of Studies For Liberating One's Mind From Geographical And Traditional Limitations. Like Travelling, It Shows The Globe In Its Varying Climates And Zones, Its Latitude And Longitude Of Intelligence. When The Races Shall Have Learned Each Other's Language, The Significance Of Things To Thoughts, One Faith Becomes Universal, One Brotherhood.

Our Friends Interpret The World And Ourselves To Us, If We Take Them Tenderly And Truly, Nor Need We But Love Them Devotedly To Become Members Of An Immortal Fraternity, Superior To Accident Or Change.

If The Ancients Left Us Ideas, To Our Credit Be It Spoken That We Moderns Are Building Houses For Them -- Structures Which Neither Plato Nor Archimedes Had Dreamed Possible.