Show GREATEST OF ALL POWERS Wealth Ancestry Genius and Knowledge Knowledge Knowl edge All Pale Palo Before the Wondrous Wondrous Won drous Magic of Beauty I Ithan The magic of beauty Is more patent than was that of ot Simon Magus or ot of otI I Beauty is a different thing from ornament which may be the disguise disguise disguise dis dis- guise of ot ugliness It is a gift for which no artificial tractions can ever be a I substitute It Isa power greater than birth wealth knowledge or genius People may be proud of ot their birth but hut after all an we are not our ances ancestors ors The rich richman man ma may transmit his wealth to his hits offspring but It may be all oil I wasted in a single generations generation Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge Knowl Knowl- edge ma may be a n satisfaction to Its possessor pos pos- sessor but has hns It not been heen said that the more morea a a man of ot knowledge the themore more more be he of sorrows sorrow sorro ll GenIlus Genius Gen Gen- ius lus although It wins admiration may maybe maybe be an on obstacle le rather than an nn aid to success In life Burns Bums and Poe and had genius but It did not bring them any worldly advantage Beauty on the contrary Is la a key which opens all an doors It shines on the world like the sun and Its Influence is 18 universal In Emersons words It Is its own excuse for being To ao be beautiful Is to be worshiped Idolized I caressed and adored The plain good people may protest against the Of ot a a world which prefers beauty to virtue But the fact remains Rochester Post Express |