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102 see) from our pious forefathers in the position of the Mistletoe-berry. No one who has ever used, or understood, this solemn formula would willingly translate it into common words. But so much misapprehension is caused by the reticence which has been observed about this and other formulae of Grammarye that I, unwillingly, state it here:—

We find the Germ of the Future when we look back to where, in the Past, a branch separated and began to grow into twin-twigs.

The difference between the Far-Seer and ordinary educated men may be summed up thus:—Ordinary man thinks of some condition or other as in itself good, and desires to make that condition permanent. If he be so far educated that he consents to severe temperance in such pleasures as those of food, it is because experience has taught us that to make the enjoyment of such pleasures short, periodic, and not too frequent, is the best way to keep the system capable of enjoying what are called "the higher pleasures," such as those afforded by learning, religion, and the social emotions. The ordinary man thinks of physical temperance as a process of sacrificing the lower pleasures to the higher; he does not understand that the rhythm of temperance should be kept especially in what he calls the highest. The true Prophet, on the contrary, knows that nothing is good except rhythmic alternation. He is no more a glutton intellectually than physically; he no more desires the constant enjoyment of what is called realizing the Presence of God than he craves for unlimited brandy; he no more aspires to a Heaven of constant rapture in the intercourse of Jesus and the Saints, than