“Nothing is great in this world and nothing is small. I cannot say of the soul whose transition we celebrate to-day that it was either, for there is no distinction. It aspired, and that means much. It strove to go up higher; and that striving will lift it into the fulness of light. “That living, loving, truthful, beautiful spirit, has not gone back to the sea of universal Being to lose its identity. There is no going back. In that sea we live and move and have our being now, as well as in the future, yet we remain individuals. The union with the one mind toward which we are all moving is an harmonious ever-upward-tending life, not an extinction of the individual. The school, the club, the state are its prototypes here,--a blending of the many units in one body, but the extinction of none. “We sorrow, but not without hope. Our friend still lives. We shall find her again.” “I loved her,” said Gabriel Norris, as he sat with Lilla in the little flat after all was over. “To be near her I came to New York. She never knew; but now she knows. My love did not crave possession. I was happy in loving. I am still happy in it. She lives and I love her. It is enough.” THE END. Transcriber’s Notes Errors in punctuation and spacing have been fixed. Page 138: “as much as as any” changed to “as much as any” Page 173: “defeat and humilation” changed to “defeat and humiliation” Page 194: “would is queer” changed to “world is queer” Page 302: “by the wall” changed to “by the well” Page 306: “have a monoply of it. What idocy!” changed to “have a monopoly of it. What idiocy!” Page 311: “The animal knows” changed to “The animal known”