ment and genuine breeding are re-
vealed when the man is off guard
and acts and speaks instinctively.
It is possible to be mentally active
and intellectually poor and sterile;
to drive the mind along certain
courses of work, but to have no
deep life of thought behind these
calculated activities. The life of the
mind is rich and fruitful only when
thought, released from specific tasks,
flies at once to great themes as its
natural objects of interest and love,
its natural sources of refreshment
and strength. Under all our defi-
nite activities there runs a stream of
meditation; and the character of that
meditation determines our wealth or
our poverty, our productiveness or
our sterility.

This instinctive action of the
mind, although largely unconscious,

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