The figures which appear in the text have reference to the source from which that particular extract was made, and the reader can refer here if need be to the occasion and time when such words were uttered. Of course everything of a purely local or ephemeral nature has been omitted, and only the more vital truths which concern our daily lives and the commonweal have been gathered here, and these the average reader will find a help and guide in which he will be inclined to put an abiding faith. ----- Footnote A: National Teachers Association. Footnote 1: From an address before the Hungarian Club, N. Y. Feb. 14, 1905. Footnote 2: Extract from an address at Little Rock, Oct. 25, 1905. Footnote 3: From an address before the Republican Club, N. Y. Feb. 14, 1905. Footnote 4: Address at Symphony Hall, Boston, Aug. 25, 1902. Footnote 5: Address before N. Y. Chamber of Commerce, Nov. 11, 1902. Footnote 6: Address at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1903. Footnote 7: Extract from Message to 57th Cong. 1st Session. Footnote 8: Address to Brotherhood of Local Engineers, Chatt. Sept. 8, 1903. Footnote 9: Extract from Message to 57th Cong. 2nd Session. Footnote 10: Extract from Message to 58th Cong. 2nd Session. Footnote 11: Extract from Message to 59th Cong. 1st Session. Footnote 12: Address at Topeka, May 1, 1903. Footnote 13: Address at Bangor, Aug. 27, 1902. Footnote 14: Extract from Message to 59th Cong. 1st Session. Footnote 15: Address at Sioux Falls, Apr. 6, 1903. Footnote 16: From address at Logansport, Sep. 23, 1902. Footnote 17: Address at Grace Dutch Reformed Church, Washington, Nov. 12, 1905. Footnote 18: From Letter of Acceptance of Nomination, Sep. 12, 1904. Footnote 19: Address before Union League, Phila., Nov. 22, 1902. Footnote 20: Address at dedicatory exercises New High School, Phila. in honor of Dr. Nicholas Butler, N. Y. Apr. 19, 1902. Footnote 21: Nov. 22, 1902. Footnote 22: Address at Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Palo Alto, May 12, 1903. Footnote 23: Address at Univ. of California, Berkeley, May 14, 1903. Footnote 24: Spoken at Lincoln’s Monument, Springfield, Ill., June 4, 1903. Footnote 25: Address at Univ. of Pa. Feb. 22, 1905. Footnote 26: Extract from letter to Governor Durbin of Ind. Aug. 6, 1903. Footnote 27: Address at Atlanta, Oct. 20, 1905. Footnote 28: Address before Nat. Educ. Asso. Asbury Park, July 7, 1905. Footnote 29: Address in Alabama, Oct. 24. 1905. Footnote 30: Address at Chautauqua, Aug. 11, 1904. Footnote 31: Address at Pan Amer. Miss. Service, Cath. S. S. P. & P., Washington, Oct. 25, 1903. Footnote 32: Address at Chicago, Apr. 2, 1903. Footnote 33: Address before National Mothers’ Congress, Washington, May 13, 1905. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES