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thing that I choose. And I am resolved
that the world shall know me as one of its
great men.”

“Some, if they were to hear you speak
thus, James, might smile at what they -
would consider a weak and vain assump-
tion. But I know that you have a mind
capable of accomplishing great. things;
that you have only to use the means,
and take an elevated position as the
natural result. Still I must say, that I
do not like the spirit in which you speak
of these things.”

“Why not ?”

‘You seem to desire an elevated station
more for the glory of filling it, than for the
enlarged sphere of usefulness that it must
necessarily open to you.”

“JT do not think, Harvey,” his friend
replied, “that I am influenced by the
mere glory of greatness to press forward.
There is something too unsubstantial in that.
Look at the advantages that must result
to me if I attain a high place.”

XI.—C