And we find this: the more unselfish men become, the more sensitive do they become in understanding human relations. The gambler cannot see that he is giving pain to his family; his self-indulgence has blunted his sensibilities. The faith healer knows that he is curing a man in a neighboring State; his love for mankind has refined his sensibilities. Most of us stand somewhere between these two extremes in the scale of understanding, and are moving towards one or the other. Education, then, is the process by which we gradually discover both the real nature of the human life about us, and our own relation to the whole of it. The process is never complete. Even poets and great men are in the dark about their own function; but they are less in the dark than the rest of us. They speak from a knowledge that is greater than ours. They have a wonderful power over us; for they help us in our struggle to see the world as it is. OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN _EMERSON_ AND OTHER ESSAYS 12mo. $1.25. Emerson. Walt Whitman. A Study of Romeo. Michael Angelo’s Sonnets. Robert Browning. R. L. Stevenson. The Fourth Canto of the Inferno. Mr. Chapman brings to bear on his task a rare store of critical perception and literary knowledge, while in his own style there is nothing to be found of the obscure or the inflated. The interesting part of Mr. Chapman’s work is that he has something new to say about everything he touches.--_The Spectator._ ❦ ❦ ❦ This Essay (Emerson) is the most effective critical attempt made in the United States, or I should suppose anywhere, to get near the sage of Concord.--HENRY JAMES. ❦ ❦ ❦ We shall hope to come across Mr. Chapman again. Few living critics go so straight to the heart of their problem, or waste so little time in writing “about it and about.”--_The Academy._ _CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES_ 12mo. $1.25. Politics. Society. Education. Democracy. Government. No one can read Mr. Chapman’s book without finding in it something instructive and suggestive. The author is an enthusiast for humanity converted by stress of circumstances into a preacher against corruption. His book is a manly appeal to the rising generation, for whom it has a message of courage and hope sadly wanting nowadays.--_The Nation._ ❦ ❦ ❦ This is a brilliant little book. Mr. Chapman wields a razor edge of forcible statement, and he is inspired by a moral passion that makes his utterance a breathing, vital thing.--_The Academy._ ❦ ❦ ❦ The author is essentially a critic, clear and incisive, at times rather sweeping in his generalities, yet always fresh and stimulating. His attack on the corruption of American politics is as vigorous a piece of writing as one could desire.--_The Outlook._ CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers 153-157 Fifth Ave., New York Transcriber’s Notes: Variations in hyphenation have been retained as published in the original book. Punctuation has been standardised.