It is throwing away money to spend a thousand a year on the
teaching of three boys, if they are to return from school only to
find the older members of their family intent on amusing
themselves at any cost of time and trouble, or sacrificing
self-respect in ignoble efforts to struggle into a social grade
above their own. The child will never place his aims high, and
pursue them steadily, unless the parent has taught him what
energy, and elevation of purpose, mean not less by example than by
precept.

In that company of indefatigable workers none equalled the
labours of Zachary Macaulay. Even now, when he has been in his
grave for more than the third of a century, it seems almost an
act of disloyalty to record the public services of a man who
thought that he had done less than nothing if his exertions met
with praise, or even with recognition. The nature and value of
those services may be estimated from the terms in which a very
competent judge, who knew how to weigh his words, spoke of the
part which Mr. Macaulay played in one only of his numerous
enterprises,--the suppression of slavery and the slave-trade.
"That God had called him into being to wage war with this
gigantic evil became his immutable conviction. During forty
successive years he was ever burdened with this thought. It was
the subject of his visions by day and of his dreams by night. To
give them reality he laboured as men labour for the honours of a
profession or for the subsistence of their children. In that
service he sacrificed all that a man may lawfully sacrifice--
health, fortune, repose, favour, and celebrity. He died a poor
man, though wealth was within his reach. He devoted himself to
the severest toil, amidst allurements to luxuriate in the