THE CULTURE OF COURAGE.

CHAPTER I.

THE WORLD'S NEW DAWN.

"Let us not look at ourselves but onwards, and take strength from
the leaf and the signs of the field. He is indeed despicable who
cannot look onwards to the ideal life of man. Not to do so is to
deny our birthright of mind."--Thomas Coke Watkins.


I am often asked, "Do you think the world is really becoming
better?"

My inmost self--the self I trust and try to assist--is sure that
the world is growing better, whatever the hampered intellect may
from time to time aver.

For one thing, I FEEL that the world's mind is slowly yet swiftly
changing its adjustment to one supreme reality--Truth.

Always have men believed that they desired only the truth, and
always have they sought and found it in part. But then they have
immediately wrapped it in packages and stowed it in boxes with
elaborate labels. Our nature craves reality, not wrappings and