We learn in unlearning.  We lay aside, one by one, the garments in which we have enwrapped ourselves; garments of various hues, which are our opinions, and so clog and hinder our progress.  Happily for us that we find our states changing, and the wrappings of old dogmas too oppressive.  Fortunate are we if our freedom of spirit is large enough to enable us to lay aside what was a shield and protection to us yesterday, if it be not fitted for us to-day.  He who is strong to do so, benefits all around him, for no good or evil is confined or limited to one.  Everything flows; circulation is in all things, natural and spiritual.  Life in one is life in another; what is faith in one is also faith in another.

“What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

“A great genius discovers a truth in science, the philosophy of matter; or in philosophy the science of man.  He lays it at the feet of humanity, and carefully she weighs in her hand what is so costly to him, and so precious to her.

“She keeps it forever; he may be forgotten, but his truth is a part of the breath of humankind.  By a process more magical than magic, it becomes the property of all men, and that forever.

“All excellence is perpetual.  A man gets a new truth, a new idea of justice, a new sentiment of religion, and it is a seed of the flower of God, something from the innate substance of the Infinite Father; for truth, justice, love, and faith in the bosom of man are higher manifestations of God than the barren zone of yonder sun; fairer revelations of him than all the brave grandeur of yonder sky.  No truth fades out of science, no justice out of politics, no love out of the community, nor out of the family.

“A great man rises, shines a few years, and presently his body goes to the grave, and his spirit to the home of the soul.  But no particles of the great man are ever lost; they are not condensed into another great man, they are spread abroad.

“There is more Washington in America now than when he who bore the name stood at the nation’s head.  Ever since Christ died, there has been a growth of the Christ-like.

“Righteousness grows like corn-that out of the soil, this out of the soul.

“Thus every atom of goodness incarnated in a single person, is put into every person, and ere long spreads over the earth, to create new beauty and sunshine everywhere.”

There was one spot which seemed more attractive to Dawn after Ralph’s birth, than her home,—­our homes are just where our hearts cling for the time, here or there,—­and that spot was the home of Miss Bernard and her brother.  This desire to be with them was settling into a fixed purpose to go, when one day her friend, Mrs. Austin, burst into her room, saying, “I’ve come for you.  I think a change will do you good.”

A short time only was needed to pack a few articles of clothing, and they were soon on their way.