which shall do good to his fellow men, or which shall at the least amuse them.  But as you carefully drive an unsound horse, walking him at first starting, not trotting him down hill, making play at parts of the road which suit him; so you must manage many men, or they will break down or bolt out of the path.  Above all, so you must manage your own mind, whose weaknesses and wrong impulses you know best, if you would keep it cheerful, and keep it in working order.  The showy, unsound horse can go well perhaps, but it must be shod with leather, otherwise it would be dead-lame in a mile.  And just in that same fashion we human beings, all more or less of screws mentally and morally, need all kinds of management, on the part of our friends and on our own part, or we should go all wrong.  There is something truly fearful when we find that clearest-headed and soberest-hearted of men, the great Bishop Butler, telling us that all his life long he was struggling with horrible morbid suggestions, devilish is what he calls them, which, but for being constantly held in check with the sternest effort of his nature, would have driven him mad.  Oh, let the uncertain, unsound, unfathomable human heart be wisely and tenderly driven!  And as there are things which with the unsound horse you dare not venture on at all, so with the fallen mind.  You who know your own horse, know that you dare not trot him hard down hill.  And you who know your own mind and heart, know that there are some things of which you dare not think; thoughts on which your only safety is resolutely to turn your back.  The management needful here is the management of utter avoidance.  How often we find poor creatures who have passed through years of anxiety and misery, and experienced savage and deliberate cruelty which it is best to forget, lashing themselves up to wrath and bitterness by brooding over these things, on which wisdom would bid them try to close their eyes for ever!

But not merely do screws daily draw cabs and stage-coaches:  screws have won the Derby and the St. Leger.  A noble-looking thorough-bred has galloped by the winning-post at Epsom at the rate of forty miles an hour, with a white bandage tightly tied round one of its fore-legs:  and thus publicly confessing its unsoundness, and testifying to its trainer’s fears, it has beaten a score of steeds which were not screws, and borne off from them the blue ribbon of the turf.  Yes, my reader:  not only will skilful management succeed in making unsound animals do decently the hum-drum and prosaic task-work of the equine world; it will succeed occasionally in making unsound animals do in magnificent style the grandest things that horses ever do at all.  Don’t you see the analogy I mean to trace?  Even so, not merely do Mr. Carlyle’s seventeen millions of fools get somehow through the petty wrork of our modern life, but minds which no man could warrant sound and free from vice, turn off some of the noblest work that ever was done by mortal.  Many of the