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(See pages 235, 522)

Let man serve law for man; Live for friendship, live for love, For truth's and harmony's behoof; The state may follow how it can, As Olympus follows Jove.

The Happiness of Nations

(American writer upon economics, born 1872)

Everywhere we are taught that "life is sacred," that "liberty is sacred," that "property is sacred,"—but where are we taught that happiness is sacred? And yet it is only because of their relation to happiness that these other things have a trace of sacredness.

Paris

(See page 91)

All boiled in the huge vat of Paris; the desires, the deeds of violence, the strivings of one and another man's will, the whole nameless medley of the bitterest ferments, whence, in all purity, the wine of the future would at last flow.

Then Pierre became conscious of the prodigious work