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sure at which we live that counts most. Life is unnecessarily long;-only, so much time we spend in vegetating rather than living. For only the spiritual man can appreciate the fine art of living. As a great thinker said: We ask for long life, but "tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Life culminates and concentrates. Homer said "The gods ever give to mortals their appointed share of reason only on one day." "Just to fill the hour-that is happiness. Fill my hour ye gods, so that I shall not say, 'whilst I have done this, Behold, also an hour of my life is gone/ but rather, “I have lived an hour." "In stripping time of its illusions, in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment and drop the duration altogether. It is the depth at which we live and not at all the surface extension, that imports. We pierce to the eternity of which time is the fitting surface; and really the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration. We call it time, but when that acceleration and that deepening effect take place, it acquires another higher name; -EteRntty." "God works in moments." "The measure of life, 0 Socrates, is with the wise; - the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours." "There is no real happiness in this life but in intellect and virtue" "It is the deep today that all men scorn, the rich