"
In the same way we must read with the rising inflection the lines of
Tennyson:
"I falter when I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares,
Upon the World's great altar-stairs
That slope through darkness, up to god!"
Read these words with courage, and with the upward turn of the voice at
the end. It is no longer in the darkness that we falter. The great
altar-stairs of which no man knows the beginning nor the end, do not
spring from the mire nor end in the mists. They "slope through darkness
up to God," and no one could ask a stronger expression of that robust
optimism which must be the mainspring of successful life.
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