Excerpt from The St. Ignatius Collegian, Vol. 11: November, 1911 We are all members of that one great democracy, the human family. The active members, however, are far outnumbered by the inactive and the recalcitrant. The active members may be defined as those who love mankind as it is, and not as they think it should be. This love is the kind that makes us feel, since we are all from the same clay, all descendants of old Adam, all subject alike to the pains and joys of life, we should have a deep regard for our fellows, and seek happiness by serving them rather than by serving our selves. To speak the truth, says Emerson, even with some austerity, to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good nature would appoint to those that are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.