low to the grave with universal benediction, or, on the other hand, the selfish ambitions which crowd and crush along their streets, intent only on accumulated wealth and its sumptuous display, or the glittering vices which they accept and set on high-these will make their impression on those who never cross the continent to our homes, to whom our journals are but names. Surely, we should not go from this hour, which marks a new era in the history of these cities, and which points to their future indefinite expansion, without the purpose in each of us, that, so far forth as in us lies, with their increase in numbers, wealth, equipment, shall also proceed, with equal step, their progress in whatever is noblest and best in private and in public life; that all which sets humanity forward shall come in them to ampler endowment, more renowned exhibition: so that, linked together, as hereafter they must be, and seeing "the purple deepening in their robes of power," they may be always increasingly conscious of fulfilled obligation to the nation and to God; may make the land, at whose magnificent gateway they stand, their constant debtor; and may contribute their mighty part toward that ultimate perfect Human Society for which the seer could find no image so meet or so majestic as that of a city, coming down from above, its stones laid with fair colors, its foundations with sapphires, its windows of agates, its gates of carbuncles, and all its borders of pleasant stones, with the sovereign promise resplendent above it, แ And great shall be the peace of thy children!" VII MANLINESS IN THE SCHOLAR The Chancellor's Oration, delivered at the Eighty-sixth Commencement of Union College, 1883. VII MANLINESS IN THE SCHOLAR ECKERMANN tells us, in his interesting report of talks with Goethe, that once, when looking with him at some engravings, the poet said: "These are really good things. You have before you the work of men of very fair talents, who have learned something, and have acquired no little taste and art. Still, something is wanting in all these pictures-the Manly. Take note of this word, and underscore it. The pictures lack a certain urgent power, which in former ages was generally expressed, but in which the present age is deficient; and that with respect not only to painting, but to all the other arts." This remark of the great German not unfrequently recurs to one as he stands before pictures, graceful in conception, harmonious in composition, radiant in color, but wanting in evident and predominant motive; and so wanting the dignity and charm which come only from an imperative spiritual impulse, imparting significance to lines and tints. He thinks of it in reading many books, where the thoughts elaborated, or the knowledges assembled, seem quite sufficient to reward the attention, and where the style which commends them to such attention is no wise wanting in carefulness or elegance, but where there beats no pulse in the pages; where no pervading and |