THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMANDMENTS IN POLITICS 107 THE BEST AND THE GOOD 113 PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE 119 THE AMERICAN BOY 128 MILITARY PREPAREDNESS AND UNPREPAREDNESS 138 ADMIRAL DEWEY 156 GRANT 171 THE TWO AMERICAS 189 MANHOOD AND STATEHOOD 201 BROTHERHOOD AND THE HEROIC VIRTUES 215 NATIONAL DUTIES 228 THE LABOR QUESTION 245 CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP 262 THE STRENUOUS LIFE SPEECH BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB, CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 1899 In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.