is reborn in plenty and honour. The cruel and unjust are reborn in the midst of harsh and untoward surroundings; the kind and just are reborn where kind hearts and gentle hands watch over and tend them. Thus, with every vice and virtue, each receives its own; each declares its own destiny.
But even those who refuse to believe in rebirth will find that even in this life men almost invariably reap what they sow; and the time is surely coming when social and political reformers will pay more attention to the development of character than the mere gaining of party issues. As the individual reaps what he sows, so the nation, being a community of individuals, reaps also what it sows. Nations become great when their leaders are just men; they fall and fade when their just men pass
