Matter, the wise man’s God; the Crowd’s—no Matter.

[3]. (See Report of Professor Tyndall’s Inaugural Discourse to the British Association.)

Christmas Chimes

Little Penelope Socrates—

A Boston maid of four—

Wide opened her eyes on Christmas morn,

And looked the landscape o’er.

“What is it inflates my bas de bleu?”

She asked with dignity;

“’Tis Ibsen in the original;