an executioner's cart, she was riding toward the place of execution
midst crowds who gazed upon her with hearts as cold as ice and hard as
granite. When Foulon was asked how the starving populace was to live
he answered: "Let them eat grass." Afterward, Carlyle says, the mob,
maddened with rage, "caught him in the streets of Paris, hanged him,
stuck his head upon a pike, filled his mouth with grass, amid shouts as
of Tophet from a grass-eating people." What kings and princes gave
they received. This is the voice of nature and conscience: "Behold,
sin crouches at the door!"

This divine principle also explains man's attitude toward his fellows.
The proverb says man makes his own world. Each sees what is in
himself, not what is outside. The jaundiced eye yellows all it
beholds. The chameleon takes its color from the bark on which it
clings. Man gives his color to what his thought is fastened upon. The
pessimist's darkness makes all things dingy. The youth disappointed
with his European trip said he was a fool for going. He was, for the
reason that he was a fool before he started. He saw nothing without,
because he had no vision within. He gave no sight, he received no
vision. An artist sees in each Madonna that which compels a rude mob
to uncover in prayer, but the savage perceives only a colored canvas.
Recently a foreign traveler, writing of his impressions of our city,
described it to his fellows as a veritable hades. But his fellow
countryman, in a similar volume, recorded his impressions of our art,
architecture and interest in education. Each saw that for which he
looked.

This principle explains man's attitude toward his God. God governs
rocks by force, animals by fear, savage man by force and fear, true men
by hope and love. Man can take God at whatsoever level he pleases. He