When will people learn that the mind rules the body? When will they realize that they might be strong, blooming, and attractive, if they would only think so? They regard debility as inevitable. Throw such folly to the winds. Learn of nature. As Summer is warmer and brighter than Spring, so Autumn is more fruitful than either. When change awaits mortals,—not death, but Life should herald a new resurrection. In Autumn how blue the sky, how beautiful the colors in woodland and meadow! there is not one harsh or discordant note when a law of harmony is fulfilled. If there had been but a few days of fitful sunshine in the Spring, what would the harvest have been?
How can life be perfect without a Summer? It is folly to suppose that all the warmth, vigor, and strength of youth is compressed into the first few years of mortals. Strength and beauty ought to increase and be retained. Beauty will then be of the right kind,—that of the spirit, not of the flesh.—Com.
Not for myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken;
Not for myself, but the seed that in life I have sown,
Shall pass on to ages all about me forgotten,
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done.—.
