“‘Yes, yes,’ interrupted the gentleman, ‘that’s what I want exactly.’
“‘My friend,’ answered the dealer, ‘there ain’t no sich hoss!’”
The congregation doubtless caught the point.—Presbyterian of the South.
(1478)
See [Being Before Doing].
IDEAL, THE, ATTEMPTED
Delos was a small but very celebrated island near the center of the Egean Sea. It was a sacred island, devoted to religious rites, and all contention, and violence, and, so far as possible, all suffering and death, were excluded from it. The sick were removed from it; the dead were not buried there; armed ships and armed men laid aside their hostility to each other when they approached it. All was an enchanting picture of peace and happiness upon its shores. In the center of the island was a large natural fountain, from which issued a fertilizing stream; a populous city stood near the port, and the whole island was adorned with temples and palaces of magnificence.
Such an island might our world be were it not for sin and its ravages; were war no more, and were the Fountain of Life permitted to water it. (Text.)
(1479)
Idealism and the Practical Life—See [Practical, The].