dead "Caesars" and Nan Pattersons to new states of right parentage and training.

Do you see how desire works?

Listen: If you stoop to follow a desire you gain wisdom by hard and bitter experience which wakes you up to the high desire for true living which is the principle of every human soul.

If you follow your high desire for honest living before God and man, you miss the bitter experiences of life.

Ponder well those two statements, dear heart.

Years of separation from the one you love? Ah, but that is sweet pain, not bitter. Haven't you yet learned the difference between the bitter hardships of the transgressor against self, whose desired things are torn from him and the sweet sorrow of him who voluntarily resigns a joy that he may satisfy his high conscience? To walk in freedom, upright before your God-self, adds sweetness to any fate. And what is a life time of separation from your mate, with that sweet love within and the sunshine over you, when there is eternity ahead.

The law of affinity, like the law of gravitation with which it is one, is sinless. But man may use or abuse both. How did "Caesar" and Nan use it?

Because by the law of gravitation a falling body is drawn to earth is a man excused for pushing his rival off a cliff? Neither is a man excused for pushing himself or a girl off the solid rock of conscience into the stream of affinity. Neither is a woman excused for courting the edge of the precipice until a misstep, or her own gazing downward, or a little push, carries her over. The goodness of gravitation or affinity will not keep her from hitting the rocks at the bottom. And about the time she strikes she will wish to goodness she had not taken