highest good for all could only be maintained by stability in the commonwealth; as the tremendous rock foundations of the earth are a support for the growth thereon of all perfection, all grace and beauty; that the concentric rings, when rightly understood, should become a means of purification — of reward for true worth — of power for noblest service, and not for personal ambition and the unmolested gratification of vicious tastes.

David did not as yet know that his clear-seeing wife could help him to the attainment of his greatest possibilities, right here where he feared to bring her — the wife of whom he dare not tell his mother. Blinded by the world’s estimates which he still had sense enough to despise, he did not know that the key to its deepest secrets lay in her heart, nor that of the two,