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AST night I lay awake thinking of Lhasa, of Peru, of Dunk Island, of the sea, and of many places that I had meant to have visited. When so thinking, I am conscious that I am still in my early twenties. Something seems to whisper to me that age does not matter, though those places of desire are still there, and I cannot go to see them. With health, one may go just where one wishes. I suppose that there will be at some future time things to much more than compensate for what we must miss to-day. But I am unable to comprehend any more lovely world than the world in which I live. It is, indeed, good enough for me. I suppose that my job is to be good enough for it.

The Tibetan woman has five husbands, the Turk five wives. The fellow from old Calabar .is black as your hat, and the Whampoa man is yellow. You and I are white, pinky white. I wonder if we appear untasty to the other fellow? Were I a black man, I think that I might feel a bit "sick at my stomach" when looking at my first white man. He would appear to be underdone, or, perhaps, like a worm. Before I'd have five wives I'd go drown myself. Imagine having to go shopping with, not one, but five. One's life would be spent outside the five-andten-cent store cussing femininity. The five-and-ten-cent store is curse enough as it is. When Woolworth stores spread over the earth, there will be no more polygamy. As for being one of five husbands! Those Tibetans can have no pride. What a grand time an Irishman could have there! He would be in an everlasting rumpus. It is a queer world. Something will come of it yet. Civilization your eye! We haven't started. We

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are still in the nursery. I sometimes think that the white child is the biggest trouble-maker in the family.

It is better than being an insect, though. Fancy being a spider, and falling in love. You would be saying to your wife, "You are so sweet I could eat you," and before you knew what was happening she would very positively be eating you.

Had I a twin brother, had he through some means been brought up in a Turkish family, he would be as sure of his religion as am I of mine. The same, had he been nurtured in Timbuctoo or Tientsin. We are a cock-sure lot; each given

to contempt for the other fellow's beliefs. Every tribe swears by its own soldiery as the bravest, by its women as the loveliest.

I want to live in a little street where all may sit down and consider things in a friendly fashion. Maybe we'd have a free fight once in a while, to purify our blood and sweeten the air. But there'd be none of this killing. A hard fist is a fine thing to have, a hard heart a foul

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When I was little, I was forever in trouble through asking questions. Very often I was in for a licking. You cannot stifle knowledge, and to refuse an answer is a crime when youth inquires. To hedge but makes youth suspicious of your motives. I am suspicious yet, often apt to be. One of these days dawn will break and the nursery blind will be pulled up to let the bright light in. Then we shall know. How long it seems till dawn! Meanwhile, what? The faith of a child, let us hope. There is good in humanity, and we must dig it out.

If America does not solve some of the many questions of this earth, some of its graver ones, if America does not contrive to lead mankind toward some fuller brotherhood, America will have turned the dream which gave to her her birth into a nightmare. We have to get rid of all fanaticism, of every fetish. We have little more than started. We praise great men, and do not follow them. Material well-being, an empty thing beside the deeper thing, is apt to blind men's eyes. Centuries pass, and it becomes but a mummy. The deeper thing is as a lily bulb which, planted in some shady corner by a child, spreads over and beautifies all of a wide field. It is a beauty that does not die. It is the yeast which makes our cake rise, and renders the bread of life digestible.

The Tibetan, who uses barley balls in his buttered tea, would scorn my metaphor. Or is it a simile? My education is long ago shot up, and I leave it to you. Cheer-oh!