life of strife is largely a life of sorrow when stripped of its surface appearances.
Such, briefly sketched, are the phenomena connected with that aspect of human life with which we are now dealing; such are the effects as we see them; and they have one common cause that is found in the human heart itself. As all the multiform varieties of plant life have one common soil from which to draw their sustenance, by virtue of which they live and thrive, so all the varied activities of human life are rooted in, and draw their vitality from, one common source—the human heart—the spirit within. The cause of all suffering and of all happiness resides in the inner activities of the heart and mind, not in the outer activities of human life, and every external agency is sustained by the life it derives from human conduct.
The organized life-principle in man carves for itself outward channels along which it can pour its pent-up energies, makes for itself vehicles through which it can manifest its potency and reap its experience, and
