enough fortune to support himself in going about the country in the
simplest way and studying and enjoying the life and beauty of it. He was
once in the company of a great millionaire who was engaged in business,
working at it daily and getting richer every year, and the poor man said
to the millionaire, "I am a richer man than you are." "How do you make
that out?" said the millionaire. "Why," he replied, "I have got as much
money as I want and you haven't."

But it is not only in the small worries of life that we may be saved by
a right use of recreation. We all realize how in the Great War your
nation and our nation and others engaged in the war were taken out of
themselves, I was going to say lost themselves, but I ought rather to
say found themselves. It was a fine thing on your part to send two
million soldiers across the sea in so short a time to risk their lives
for an ideal. It was even more impressive to us when we heard that in
this country you had adopted conscription, and that your millions of
people, distributed over so vast an extent of continent, were so moved
by one public spirit and one patriotism and one desire to help the
Allies in the war that they were rationing themselves voluntarily with
food and fuel. That voluntary action by so many millions over so great
an extent of country was a tremendous example, showing what an ideal and
a public spirit and a call to action can do for people in making them
forget private interests and convenience and making them great.

That was an example of what could be done by not shrinking from the
duty of life; but you can get greatness, too, from some of the joys of
life, and from none more than from a keen sense of the beauty of the
world and a love for it. I found it so during the war. Our feelings were
indeed roused by the heroism of our people, but they were also depressed
by the suffering. In England every village was stricken, there was grief