This understanding of true success is the thing so greatly needed, so largely lacking in the present day. It is the same with the art of life as with the art of knowledge: much learning is no substitute for real insight. As Mr. Robert Lynd so truly wrote in Friday's issue of the "N.-C. Daily News," under the heading of: "Phings one docs not know:" "What the world is suffering from at present is not so much a Jack of knowledge as a lack of wisdom. Men can afford to be ignorant, but they cannot afford to be fools." In the same way there is in modern life an accumulation of successes that fly as quickly as they come, but what a poverty of true success that' is rooted in the soul—that independence of the world that comes from conquering its temptations. Would there be such a rush for pleasure, such a dependence on alcohol if life was a real success? But as a writer of long ago wrote from the midst of Babylon, when) the wings of achievement. flag and fail there is a wingless victory for the heroes of God. Though no longer they mount with wings as eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint. "Blessed is the man that endure th temptation for when he is proved he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him."
Sir Charles Eliot, British Ambassador to Tokio, formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hongkong, has written a_ three-volume book, which the London "Daily Chronicle' says is one of magnitude and interest. It deals with Hinduism and Buddhism, and is a comprehensive—spiritual history, in the widest sense of the word, in the East, where religion, moral philosophy and metaphysics are all inextricably interwoven. It is possible that there may now be some time in the British Embassy in Tokio to devote to the ~Shaw case.
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