Father Damien was vindicated by a stranger, a man of another country and another religion from his own. F. V. DE G. S. Contents: Preface by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Lay Morals Father Damien The Pentland Rising I. The Causes of the Revolt II. The Beginning III. The March of the Rebels IV. Rullion Green V. A Record of Blood The Day After To-morrow College Papers I. Edinburgh Students in 1824 II. The Modern Student III. Debating Societies Criticisms I. Lord Lytton’s “Fables in Song” II. Salvini’s Macbeth III. Bagster’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” Sketches I. The Satirist II. Nuits Blanches III. The Wreath of Immortelles IV. Nurses V. A Character The Great North Road I. Nance at the “Green Dragon” II. In which Mr. Archer is Installed III. Jonathan Holdaway IV. Mingling Threads V. Life in the Castle IV. The Bad Half-Crown VII. The Bleaching-Green VIII. The Mail Guard The Young Chevalier Prologue: The Wine-Seller’s Wife I. The Prince Heathercat I. Traqairs of Montroymont II. Francie III. The Hill-End of Drumlowe LAY MORALS _The following chapters of a projected treatise on Ethics were drafted at Edinburgh in the spring of_ 1879. _They are unrevised_, _and must not be taken as representing_, _either as to matter or form_, _their author’s final thoughts_; _but they contain much that is essentially characteristic of his mind_. * * * * * _Copyright in the United States of America_. CHAPTER I The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowledge is eternally incommunicable, for it is a knowledge of himself; and his best wisdom comes to him by no process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying from hour to hour in its dictates with the variation of events and circumstances.