CHAPTER IV ESQUIRES OF THE BODY: CHASTITY           How to Rule the Appetites.—We have seen how each of the Appetites—Hunger, Thirst, Restlessness, Rest—is a good body-servant, and how the work of each is to build up and refresh the body. We have seen, too, how a life may be ruined by each of these so innocent-seeming appetites if it be allowed to get the mastery. … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book I Pt 1. Chapter 4

CHAPTER III ESQUIRES OF THE BODY: RESTLESSNESS AND REST           Restlessness makes the Body Strong.—I hardly know by what names to call the two esquires of the Body whom I am now to introduce to you, but both are good body-servants. Perhaps Restlessness and Rest will do as well as any. You have noticed that a baby is seldom quite still when he is wide … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book I Pt 1. Chapter 3

CHAPTER II THE ESQUIRES OF THE BODY: THIRST           Thirst likes Cold Water.—Another most service-able Esquire of the Body is Thirst. How serviceable he is you will understand when you remember that by far the greater part of a man’s weight is made up of water. This water is always wasting away in one way or another, and the business of Thirst is to make … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book I Pt 1. Chapter 2

PART I THE HOUSE OF BODY CHAPTER I THE ESQUIRES OF THE BODY: HUNGER           The Work of the Appetites.—We will first consider the Esquires of the Body; not that they are the chief Officers of State, but in Mansoul, as in the world, a great deal depends upon the least important people; and the Esquires of the Body have it very much in their … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book I Pt 1. Chapter 1

CHAPTER III THE GOVERNMENT OF MANSOUL             Each of us a Kingdom of Mansoul.—I must give up attempting to talk about Mansoul in parables. I daresay you have already found it difficult to make everything fit; but, never mind; what you do not understand now you may understand someday, or you may see a meaning better and truer than that which is intended. Every … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book I Introductory. Chapter 3

CHAPTER II THE PERILS OF MANSOUL           The Government to Blame.—You are thinking, I daresay, what a rich and beautiful country Mansoul must be! But, like most other lands, it is subject to many perils. Unlike most other lands, however, Mansoul has means of escape from the perils that threaten it from time to time. In other countries, we hear the government blamed if poor … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book I Introductory. Chapter 2

Ourselves Book I.—Self Knowledge “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.”                                                                                                  —TENNYSON. ———-♦♦———-  INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY OF MANSOUL           The Riches of Mansoul.—“Do you not like fair londes?” says King Alfred; and he answers himself: “Why should I not like fair londes? They are the fairest part of God’s creation.” And of … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book I Introductory. Chapter 1

III PENDENNIS OF BONIFACE “When, like a heavenly sign Compact of many golden stars, the princely child did shine.”— (Illiads, Book Six (Chapman’s Trs.).) I ARTHUR PENDENNIS is as real a person as Wilhelm Meister, and, as a companion study, is not without instruction for us. What an Admirable Crichton he is, to be sure! He carried himself down Main Street with a lordly grace, … Continue reading Formation of Character Volume 5 Pt 4. Chapter 3. I

XI           As my point is to indicate how the education of the boy told in the life of the man, it is not necessary to follow further these most instructive records Aus Meinem Leben. Nowhere else, so far as I know, have we a minute, almost impersonal consideration of all the influences that went to the making of a man. That this was a … Continue reading Formation of Character Volume 5 Pt 4. Chapter 2. XI