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really reached that calm stage in life. I do not know if I have seen twenty persons in my life who are really calm and non-resisting, and I have travelled over half the world.
Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it; that is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish. For instance, we take a baby and at once give him the task of walking twenty miles ; either the baby dies, or one in a thousand will crawl along twenty miles, to reach the end exhausted and half-dead. That is like what we generally try to do with the world. All men and women, in any society, are not of the same mind, of the same capacity, or of the same power to do things; they must have different ideals, and we have no right to sneer at any ideal. Let every one do the best he can for realizing his own ideal. I should not be judged by your ideal, nor you by mine. The apple tree should not be judged by the standard of the oak, nor the oak: by that of the apple. „To judge the
