WHEN the history of this world comes to be read as it is written in the great book above, where alone it is truly written, all other histories being more or less fictions, it will be found that the real greatness of the great men has been due to their wives, whose care has relieved them from the cares which take up the larger part of the time of men less great, whose loving and tender severity has perpetually pruned them of faults which would have proved impediments, and whose unquenchable faith and courage has been an inspiration which all untender severity of the world has never been able to quench. Many husbands are meanly and selfishly loth to give the wife credit for her share in the partnership of life; more wives are unwilling to take it; and, most of all, both wives and husbands are unconscious of any partnership in the matter at all.