cannot be reared. The serious task of erecting that structure
somewhere still remains. To it I now address myself.



VI

What we need to consider first is the reality and wide range of self-
sacrifice. The moment the term is mentioned there spring up before our
minds certain typical examples of it. We see the soldier advancing
toward the battlefield, to stake his life for a country in whose
prosperity he may never share. We see the infant falling into the
water, and the full-grown man flinging in after it his own assured and
valued life in hopes of rescuing that incipient and uncertain thing, a
little child. Yes, I myself came on a case of heroism hardly less
striking. I was riding my bicycle along the public street when there
dashed past me a runaway horse with a carriage at his heels, both
moving so madly that I thought all the city was in danger. I pursued
as rapidly as I could, and as I neared my home, saw horse and carriage
standing by the sidewalk. By the horse's head stood a negro. I went up
to him and said, "Did you catch that horse?" "Yes, sir," he answered.
"But," I said, "he was going at a furious pace." "Yes, sir." "And he
might have run you down." "Yes, sir, but I know horses, and I was
afraid he would hurt some of these children." There he stood, the big
brown hero, unexalted, soothing the still restive horse and unaware of
having done anything out of the ordinary. I entered my house ashamed.
Had I possessed such skill, would I have ventured my life in such a
fashion?

Such are some of the shining examples of self-sacrifice which occur to