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work well. It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself. The fanatic is foolish and hạs no sympathy; he can never straighten the world, nor himself become pure and perfect.
Do you not remember the “Mayflower” people in your own history, and how they came to this land as Puritans? In the beginning they were very pure and good, but very soon they too began to persecute other people. It is the same everywhere in the history of humanity; even those that run away from persecution indulge in perseçuting others as soon as a favourable opportunity to do so turns up. I have read of two wonderful ships. The first is Noah's Ark and the second is the “Mayflower." The Jews hold that the whờle of creation has come out of Noah's Ark and the Americans say that out of the “Mayflower” nearly half the world has come. I scarcely'meet one in this country who does not say, “ My grandfather or great-grand-father came out of the
