ness of mind within reach of the
great mass of men and women. The
man who has learned the value of
five minutes has gone a long way
toward making himself a master of
life and its arts. "The thrift of
time," says the English statesman,
"will repay in after life with a
usury of profit beyond your most
sanguine dreams, and waste of it
will make you dwindle alike in in-
tellectual and moral stature beyond
your darkest reckoning." And Mat-
thew Arnold has put the same truth
into words which touch the subject
in hand still more closely: "The
plea that this or that man has no
time for culture will vanish as soon
as we desire culture so much that we
begin to examine seriously into our
present use of time." It is no ex-
aggeration to say that the mass of

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