THE GAMS OF LIFE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4521, 23 April 1889, Page 3

THE GAMS OF LIFE.

* Suppose it wcro perfectly certain that tho life and fortuno of overy ono of us would one day or other, depend on his winning or losing a gumo of chess. Don't you think that we should nil consider it to bo a primary duty to learn nt loaßt the names and the moves of the j:ioco3 ; to lnivo a notion of a gambit, and n keon eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check ? Do you not think that wo ishould look with a disapprobation amount ing to scorn upon tho father who allowed tho son, or thu fitnle which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing n pawn from n knight ? Yet it is a very plain and olomentary truth that the , lifo, the fortune, and tho happiness of every , one of 14s, and more or le«» of those- who are , connoctod with us, do dopond upon our 1 knowing something of the rules of a game , infinitely moro dilllcult and complicated than I olicbs. ItisaKauio which hai boon played 1 for untold ages, every man and nvcry woman , of u« being one of tho two playors in agamo , of his or hor own. Tho chess board is tho , world, tlio pieces are the phenomena of tho , univor«o, the ruU-s of tho gnme aro what we [ cull tho laws of nulurc. The player on tho 1 other side is hiddon from us. Wo know that , his piny is always fair, just, and patient. But j also wo know to our cost thnt ho novcr ovor- , looks a ir.wtnko or mnkos tbo smallest allow- , unco for ignoruii'-o, To tho man wlm (ilirs

well the highest Btakes are paid with that Bort of overflowing generosily with which the strong show delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without hasto, but without remorae.— Professor Huxley.

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