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E. O. Haven (W Great Things in Small Things)

W Great Things in Small Things.

ISDOM sees the great in the small. What could be more trivial than the heaving of the lid of a tea-kettle? Yet in that motion lay the germ of ocean steamers, railways and mills.

Development dilates the small into the great. By that law sparks flame into conflagrations, fountains flow into streams, and the minute swells into the magnificent. The seeds of many a world-famed change were dropped in silence-night dews watered them when no eyes looked on; but at length they bore fruit in the hearts of millions, and the harvest of them waved over all the breadth of a continent.

An on-looker observing the slight taps given to a statue by Canova, spoke as if he thought the artist to be trifling, but was rebuked by this reply: "The touches which you ignorantly hold in such small esteem are the very things which make the difference between the failure of a bungler and the success of a