thereby becomes the authority to which after ages appeal. He who seeks, loses; he who is willing to lose, wins all men. Be thy simple self, thy better self, thine impersonal self, and lo! thou art great. He who selfishly seeks authority shall succeed only in becoming a trembling apologist, courting protection behind the back of acknowledged greatness. He who will become the servant of all men, desiring no personal authority, shall live as a man, and shall be called great. “Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the fore-world again.” Forget thine own little self, and fall back upon the Universal self, and thou shalt reproduce in living and enduring forms. a thousand beautiful experiences; thou shalt find within thyself the simple goodness that is greatness.
“It is as easy to be great as to be small,” says Emerson; and he utters a profound truth. Forgetfulness of self is the whole of greatness, as it is the whole of goodness and happiness. In a fleeting moment of self-
