40 HOW TO ATTAIN TRUE GREATNESS.

 

“Perhaps you are right. - But the diff-
cult question with me is—‘Can I be as
useful in it?”

“Nonsense, Harvey! Do put away these
foolish notions. If you don’t, they will be
the ruin of you.”

“T hope not. But if they do, I shall be
ruined in a good cause.”

“T am really afraid, Harvey,” Aber-
crombie said in a serious tone, “ that you
affect these ultra sentiments, or are self-
deceived. It is my opinion that no man
can act from such motives as you declare
to be yours.”

“T did not know that I had declared my-
self governed by such motives. To say
that, I know, would be saying too much,
for I am painfully conscious of the exist-
ence and activity of motives very op-
posite. But what I mean to say is, that I
am so clearly convinced that the motives
of which I speak are the true ones, that I
will not permit myself to come wholly
under the influence of such as are opposite.