Men who trample Self beneath them.
Men who make their country wreathe them
As her noble sons,
Worthy of their sires,
Men who never shame their mothers,
Men who never fail their brothers,
True, however false are others:
Give us Men--I say again,
Give us Men!

_The Bishop of Exeter_

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_Not repression, but elevation._ Would that this could be repeated a
thousand times over! _No, a knowledge of the spiritual realities of life
prohibits asceticism, repression, the same as it prohibits license and
perverted use. To err on the one side is just as contrary to the ideal
life as to err on the other._ All things are for a purpose, all should
be used and enjoyed; but all should be rightly used, that they may be
fully enjoyed.

It is the all-around, fully developed we want,--not the ethereal,
pale-blooded man and woman, but the man and woman of flesh and blood,
for action and service here and now,--the man and woman strong and
powerful, with all the faculties and functions fully unfolded and used,
all in a royal and bounding condition, but all rightly subordinated. The
man and the woman of this kind, with the imperial hand of mastery upon
all,--standing, moving thus like a king, nay, like a very God,--such is
the man and such is the woman of power. Such is the ideal life: anything