ture, and the religious life, and de-
voted twenty-five years to working
it out. Goethe spent more than
sixty years in the process of devel-
oping himself harmoniously on all
sides; and few men have wasted less
time than he. And yet in the case
of each of these rigorous and faithful
students there were other, and, for
long periods, more engrossing occu-
pations. Any one who knows men
widely will recall those whose persist-
ent utilisation of the odds and ends
of time, which many people regard as
of too little value to save by using,
has given their minds and their
lives that peculiar distinction of taste,
manner, and speech which belong to
genuine culture.

It is not wealth of time, but
what Mr. Gladstone has aptly called
"thrift of time," which brings ripe-

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