POPULAR LECTURES.

Index.

Lecture
Page
I.[Among The Masses, or Traits of Character][9]
II.[A Searchlight of the Twentieth Century][59]
III.[Our Country, Our Homes and Our Duty][101]
IV.[The New Woman and The Old Man][137]
V.[The Safe Side of Life for Young Men][187]
VI.[Platform Experiences][233]
VII.[The Defeat of The Nation's Dragon][273]
VIII.[If I Could Live Life Over][307]

I

AMONG THE MASSES, OR TRAITS OF CHARACTER.

Whatever criticism I choose to make on human character, I hope to soften the criticism with the "milk of human kindness." As rude rough rocks on mountain peaks wear button-hole bouquets so there are intervening traits in the rudest human character, which, if the clouds could only part, would show out in redeeming beauty.

To begin with, I believe prejudice to be one of the most unreasonable traits in character. It is said: "One of the most difficult things in science is to invent a lense that will not distort the object it reflects; the least deviation in the lines of the mirror will destroy the beauty of a star." How unreliable then must be the distorting lense of human prejudice.