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e self-perfecting through motives sup
. posed to belong only to the world of thu
, divine.
e Contrariwise, others say, let's think
$ OF facing life's every day wagework
+ every day business problems, every
: day, so-called, success forces. Thai
: means ambition s reward for the pres.
$ ent; but may not even this present be
t the briefest of brief periods in real life
t advancement?
Taking Diogenes' search of the
} looking backward variety, we find these
/ names: Mary Queen of Scots against
England's Good Queen Bess;" Ma
poleon against the Duke of Wellington;
Hamilton against Burr; Brutus against
Caesar.
: With our home glimpse we see a ma
tional regret in the personal ambition
which took Alexander Hamilton from
the earth-view of Americas Beau
Brummel.
What availed Hamilton's brilliant in
tellect, his wise craftsmanship. his ir-
reproachable private and public record?
What profited Burr's subtle, graceful
brain expression, his irresistible mag
netlsm, his exquisite personality, his
wonderful social popularity? Turn to
the last scene of his world career; hear
him call for his country's flag. Was
that death scene tribute to ambition
or patriotism?
England gives one of the few instances
OF excessive feminine, rld-recognized
ambition. SOMEBODY has said to hatter
a woman one must know her most APP
parent weakness and insist upon the OPP
posite virtue. Elizabeth's strong mind
craved the recognition coming from
beauty and its conquests.
Mary Queen of Scots, the admira-
ton and homage called by character
and brain influence.
Did either enjoy her own realm?
Why? May not even a schoolgirl sus-
pect ambitions corrosion? Alas! for
the variety of Christian charity under
the sun!
Does it seem that woman should
wish supremacy love for loves sake?
These two remind that the "happiest
women, like the happiest nations, have
no history"
With all Bonaparte's world-renowned
ambition, his eagerness to cope success
fully with war magnates, he could feel
and express pettness of character
Whatever may be said of the mutual
attitude between him and Wellington,
each cherished deeply the wish to out
strip the other in the race World-as-
signed war laurels. Our oft-quoted
Every hero has his Waterloo, :" not only
recalls Napoleon's final defeat in fight
ing tactics, but recalled picture of the
beautiful Josephine, with the hopeless
ness of When he falls, he falls like
Lucifer never to hope again.
Let us draw the curtain, remember
ing only Napoleon s splendor of will.
Brutus, as you know, was Caesars an
gel. "Are we covetous of that kind of an
gel? We cannot fail to echo also Brutus
Lowliness is young ambitions ladder"
and make our own applied response,
Always | am C@sarl"
Witness the ways and means of these
TWO men, and because of common
wish in their self-seeking, Caesar, the
perishes The noble Bru-
JUS hath told you Caesar was amibi-
ious" leads to the only fact, greatly
worth while in Cessr's life-the love of II
Antony. But for Antony what would II
)e Caesars fame in the world? Death, II
leath and nothing but death in every
light and sound.
Sacrificing other lives to his ambi- II
ious projects, his own life went out by II
heer brute force-true sequel, yet
Antony.
His life was gentle and the elements
. mixed in him that Nature might
tand up and say to all the world, this
'as man. "
On amition S roll we find the names
lostly of warriors, politicians, possibly
atesmen. Marshal representatives
ON Russia, Greece, Germany, any
here memory carries you, what re-
ard has ones efforts?
In pure genius, innocent of ambition, iii
re such names as Beethoven in music; Hi
Shakespeare, Mrs. Brown II
lg, Goethe in poetry. Hawthorne, II
hackery, Hugo, Tolstoi in literature; II
aphael, Velasquez in art. All these II
.e immortal. all these worked for love I'LL