So after he had received and
given many wounds to those that attempted to keep him out, he cut
his way through them all, and pressed forward into the palace, at
which there was a pleasant voice heard from those that were
within, even of those that walked upon the top of the palace
saying:
"'Come in, come in;
Eternal glory thou shalt win.'
"So he went in, and was clothed in such garments as they.
"Then Christian smiled, and said, I think verily I know the
meaning of this."--Bunyan's, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 44.
If you wish to climb the Matterhorn many paths lead up the lower
slopes, and a stumble here may cost you only a sprain. And I suppose
that several paths lead to the base of the cone. But thence to the
summit there is but one path, and a misstep means death. Pardon
these quotations and illustrations. They are my only means of at all
adequately presenting to you a scientific man's conception of the
meaning of the struggle for life. The laws of evolution are written
in blood and bear the death penalty. For
"Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And battered with the shocks of doom
To shape and use.
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