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brothers and sisters, who looked up to him in their hunger. He was driven to beg their
food.
After the poor man had passed easily all the ordeals, I appointed him "a
Character-Diver," to discover the qualities and detect the faults of little children,[2] and
raised him from indigence to affluence.
[Footnote 2: See p. 19.]
The ability, industry, and wisdom of the man, and the good he did were beyond all praise,
and I soon appointed him head of all the Character-Divers in Montalluyah.
This incident, with many others, engaged my most serious reflection. But for an accident,
the powers of a truly superior mind would have been lost to humanity! Vyora was but the
type of numbers, evidencing how capriciously wealth and honours were then distributed.

III.
PERSEVERANCE.
"Go onward! lose not faith. Let the goodness of God support you, and the beauty and
fruitfulness of the work cheer you; and when you are blest with success forget not the
source whence all blessings come."
Several years passed before my plans were matured. I reduced all to writing. On one side
of the page I noted my resolutions, with the means of carrying them out; on the other side,
every objection that could be raised: on a third page I wrote down the answers. Every
objection was invited, every difficulty anticipated, and every detail thoroughly weighed;
nothing was thought too great or too insignificant.
I submitted the whole to my wisest councillors, and encouraged them to speak their
inmost thoughts. They were lost in admiration, but entreated me to abandon my design.
My life, they said, would be the penalty were I to attempt to carry out any part of my
projects.

Some said that the design would be beautiful as the subject of a poem-- as the aspiration
of a great mind to arrive at an ideal perfection, which could not however be realised until
evil itself had ceased to exist. That to attempt to move the Mestua Mountain[1] would be
a task not less hopeless: that I might as well endeavour to walk up our great Cataract[2]
without being engulfed in the sea of foaming waters! Not one offered encouragement to
proceed with the good work.
[Footnote 1: Supposed to be the largest and firmest of mountains, which, since its first
upheaving, has resisted the inroads of our mighty seas, as well as the most violent
electrical disturbances of our world.]
[Footnote 2: See p. 44.]
Neither their arguments nor their prayers deterred me. I proceeded cautiously, but with a
resolution that feared not death.
Aware, however, of the deadly peril besetting me, I selected twelve men, remarkable for
wisdom in council and energy in action, on each of whom in succession the authority
should devolve if I were cut off. I initiated them into my plans, and thus hoped that one
devoted man would always be ready to advance the good work.
Whilst providing for my death, I took measures for protecting my life against any sudden
outburst of fury. I turned my palace into a fortress, that I might not be cut off in a
moment of sudden unreasoning wrath, that myself and my adherents might not be scoffed
at as madmen, and my plans for the good of all retarded, if not wholly frustrated. These
motives I proclaimed to the people.
The opposing obstacles were stupendous. I braved death in every shape. I passed one
mighty peril only to meet another more formidable, but fearlessly stood every trial, and
did not hesitate to act where danger was greatest. Nothing appalled me. I never faltered
from my resolves, and after years of mighty struggles, my triumph was complete. I was
blessed and adored by all the people, small and great, and my name will live in
Montalluyah through all generations.
I gave Laws, and indicated the precautions to be taken to secure their observance. I
initiated discoveries. Inexhaustible stores of abundance were called into existence,
enriching the poor and making the rich happy in their possessions. And the eventual
result of the organization I completed was the removal of the incentives to war, strife,
avarice and other evils, the triumph of good, and the moral and material well-being of the
community.
Amongst the many subjects to which I successfully devoted my attention were:
The care and protection of Woman, the development of her capabilities and graces, the
preservation and increase of her beauty, Marriage and its incidents.
The birth, growth, and education of the future Man and of the Mother of Men; the
enlarging and ennobling the moral and intellectual powers.

Preservation of health--prevention and cure of disease--prolongation of Life, and
augmentation of the faculties of appreciation and enjoyment.
The increase of our flocks and herds, and of other sources of supply for the food