The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
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[1915]
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Credit: The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bold, gentle, patient ; one who has under¬ gone hardship, duress, and enchantment.” The Prussian would consider all this ridiculous, as he would also such sentiments as these “ We that are out-and-out adventurers, exposed to the sun’s heat, the air’s cold, and all the weather inclemencies, by night and by day, afoot and ahorse, measure kingdoms with our steps. . . . Knowing as I do the innumerable labours attendant upon chivalry, I also know its multitude of blessings. I am aware that the path of virtue is narrow, and broad and spacious the highway of vice. But I realize, too, how different their goals ! For the way of vice, though wide and easy, ends in death, but the straight and difficult path of virtue leads to life, and not the life which perishes, but that which is eternal.” Professor Cramb has written : “ I never can understand what meaning this kind of talk has—‘ friendly rivalry,’ ‘ generous emu¬ lation,’ and the image of racers on a race¬ course. Even if such a thing were possible or thinkable among nations—and there is no example in history of any such ‘ friendly
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