The well-being of the individual, not of the class, should be the aim of government. It should not be “by the people for the people,” but by the people for the person. * * * * * The true moral education is that which makes every intellectual question a matter of conscience, and every matter of conscience an intellectual question. * * * * * An explanation which demonstrates the impossibility of knowing is about as satisfactory as one which imparts the knowledge desired. But there are some who call everything incomprehensible which they do not comprehend. * * * * * Many children and nearly all girls are educated by equivocations and taught truths by means of falsehoods. What have the teachers to expect when their pupils discover this fact? * * * * * There are a good many branches of education about which it is sufficient for most to know that they exist. * * * * * That moral strength is alone real which has been acquired by repeated exposure to temptation and repeated successful resistance. * * * * * We never fully acknowledge to ourselves how very human we are. We each secretly think that there is something in us not shared by any other man or woman. * * * * * Women love too deeply to be able to judge justly. II. _What we Owe Others: Morality, Duty, Benevolence._ The much-maligned Epicurus is reported to have delivered the oracular utterance,――“The man who is not virtuous can never be happy;” and poets and moralists have exhausted their ingenuity in devising variants of the well-worn line,――“’Tis virtue only makes our bliss below.” Who would have supposed that philosophers should have been found――aye, and they of high degree――who toss overboard these venerable maxims as antiquated rubbish? Yet such is the surprising case. The mighty Kant, tearing away the cobwebs of the dogmatic philosophy, feared not to declare,――“There is not in the moral law the slightest ground for a necessary connection between Morality and Happiness;” and again,――“The goal of a perfect harmony of Desire and Duty cannot be obtained;” while in our own day the critical Alexander Bain calmly observes,――“Happiness and Virtue are independent aims and not identical. The treatment of Happiness should be dissevered from that of Ethics.”