And man would fain find some divine friend who will lead him unto great personal worth. As if to fulfill man's deepest needs, Jesus Christ enters the earthly scene. He comes to hasten man's step along that pathway that leads from littleness unto largeness. Before our admiring vision the Divine Teacher seems like some sacred husbandman, His garden our earth, good men and great earth's richest fruit. He asks each youth to love and make the most of himself, that later on he may be bread to the hungry, medicine to the wounded, shelter to the weak. He bids each love his own reason, getting wisdom with that eager passion that Hugh Miller had for knowledge. He bids each make the most of friendship, emulating Plato in his love for his noble teacher. He asks each to love industry, emulating Peabody, whose generosity gushed like rivers. He asks each to make the most of courage and self-reliance, emulating Livingstone in self-denying service. He bids each emulate and look up to Jesus Christ, as Dante, midst the pitchy night, looked up toward the star. He bids each move heaven and earth to achieve for himself a worthy manhood. For thus only can earth ever be moved back unto heaven. INDEX Abélard, 166 Abraham, influence on posterity, 16 Abundant Life, 29 Æschylus, 198 Agassiz, 102, 237 Aristotle, 124 Arkwright, 99 Arnold, 135, 216, 292 Thos., 164 Aspirations and Ideals, 53 number and kind, 61 power to lift life, 58 the use of, 63 rebuke lower life, 66 enemies of, 70 Babbage, 287 Bancroft, Geo., 10 Beatrice, 44 Beecher, 19, 95, 134, 142, 188, 258 Bible, 32, 98, 142, 164, 255 Body, a thinking machine, 80 delicacy of sensation, 80 evolution, 81 its needs as stimuli, 88 channel of knowledges, 88 system of moral registration, 92 Books and reading, 233 increase of power of vision, 238 show men at their best, 239 tools for the mind, 240 multiply brain forces, 242 preserve the spirit of great men, 243 give information, 246 show unity of progress, 249 choice of books, 250 Brooks, Phillips, 44, 254 Brown, John, 58 Browning, Mrs., 248 Bulwer Lytton, 135 Bunyan, 114 Burns, 158, 294 Byron, 48, 188, 198, 250 Cadmus, 16 Caird, 84 Capital, original, 13 Carlyle, 76, 214, 234, 239, 255 Castelar, 40 Channing, 192, 225, 234 Character, 31, 44 defined, 34 materials of, 34 Charles IX., 203 Clay, 154, 262 Climate, effect on race, 16 Coleridge, 47, 132, 200, 293 Columbus, 56, 152 Confucius, 32 Conscience and Character, 187 working of conscience, 191, 201 uses and functions, 199 standard, 199 relation to judgment, 200 influence on memory, 201 in daily life, 202 commercial, 205 emotional, 208 to the past, 209 Contrasts and extremes, teachers, 47 Cooper, Peter, 177 Cranmer, 145 Cromwell, 39, 40, 100 Curtis, Geo. Wm., 23 Dana, 84 Dante, 21, 78, 129, 150, 165, 198, 215, 312, 318 David, 48, 165 Death, 95 Demosthenes, 198 De Tocqueville, 126 Dickens, 106