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Evening Star, Issue 14515, 5 November 1910, Page 13

I decadence of the minds of others, as wo ■ note the blooming or fading of a flower. We can see how this or that happening has changed our friend, oar acquaintance; we can often learn to read moods and caprices, and to recognise the toughening or 6oftening of the menial and moral fibre of those around us. We have even witnessed with full comprehension the emotion' of our fellows, and understood them; but what is happening to ourselves is what we generally fail to notice—our moral prograss, or the airest of our mind's energies, or our moral retrogression. —Lucas Cleeve. To persons gifted with imagination what is more solemn or more appalling tlian the pause which follows on any decisive action which is perceived to have within it the seed of a result—si result which even now is germinating in darkness, is growing towards the light, foreseen, but unknown?— With what body will thev| come, we ask ; ourselves—these slow results that spring from the dust of our spent actions? Fi'ith sows and waits. Sin sows and trembles. The fool sows and forgets.—Maxy Cholmondeley.