There is no more fitting counsel for the close of
this book than is contained in the following words from The School of
Life, by William R. Alger: --
"And now there is one more lesson for us to learn, the climax of all the
rest; namely, to make a personal application to ourselves of everything
which we know. Unless we master this lesson, and act on it, the other
lessons are virtually useless, and thus robbed of their essential glory.
The only living end or aim of everything we experience, of every truth
we are taught, is the practical use we make of it for the enrichment of
the soul, the attuning of the thoughts and passions, the exaltation of
life. . . . When we do what we know, then first does it put on vital
lustre and become divinely precious."