In no other way can be explained our sacrifices and martyrdoms. For no other reason did Rudolph Mendenhall flame out his soul for the Cause and sing his wild swan-song that last night of life.

She was equally at home in music, literature, painting, drama, and the crafts; and she would run down an obscure picture, ferret out a local tale, or rummage through heaps of faded letters with the relentless patience that marks the useful spadeworker.

“Think of apologizing as an act of menschiness and bravery, because it is,” Ms. Ingall said.

The basic elements of an evolutionary growth theory are discussed in Section II.