King scourged 80,000 slaves forth to their task of building a pyramid,
a great mind discovered the use of steam. Intellect achieved an
instrument for lifting blocks of granite into proper place. In that
hour thought made possible the freedom of innumerable slaves. But the
heart of the tyrant held no love for his bondsmen. The poor seemed of
less worth than cattle. Because the King's heart felt no woes to be
cured, his hand pushed away the engine. A great thought was there, but
not the kindly impulse to use it. Then, full 2,000 years passed over
our earth. At last came an era when man's heart journeyed forward with
his mind. Then the woes of miners and the world's burden-bearers
filled the ears of James Watt with torment, and his sympathetic heart
would not let him stay until he had fashioned his redemptive tool.

For generations, also, the thoughts of liberty waited for the heart to
re-enforce them and make them practical in institutions. Two thousand
years before the era of Cromwell and Hampden, Grecian philosophers
wrought out a full statement for the republic and individual liberty.
The right of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness were truths
clearly perceived by Plato and Pericles. But the heart loved luxury
and soft, silken refinements, and Grecian philosophers in their palaces
refused to let their slaves go.

Wide, indeed, the gulf separating our age of kindness from Cicero's age
of cruelty! The difference is almost wholly a difference of heart.
This age has oratory and wisdom, and so had Cicero's; this age has
poetry and art, and so had that; but our age has heart and sympathy,
and Cicero's had not. Caesar's mind was the mind of a scholar, but his
hands were red with the blood of a half-million men slain in unjust
wars. Augustus loved refinement, literature and music. He assembled
at his table the scholars of a nation, yet his culture did not forbid