A CITY OP MANY GATES

although in many cases such deliverance is shortlived ; if a man cannot rise to the height of his liberty, his last state is worse than the first ; and space is no blessing to him» but a bane, if he is to be tossed and blown about in it like a winddriven leaf. The good becomes evil if he bas not mastery,

The allurement of intoxicating drink — delusive deliverance, but an effective illustration — ^is to be accounted for on the same prindple ; it lets a man out into another and a bigger world which he fills with his expansive feelings ; the artificial stimulus helps him to transcend the often distressing limitations of his usual life ; it unlooses his tongue, and his imagination, and his heartstrings ; he feels friendly and at peace with the world ; he feels as if the whole world belonged to him; he becomes unaccountably self-reliant and unafraid. Intense religions feehng, of the spasmodic, intermittent type — if this can truly be called *' religions" — produces the same order of effects.

Many a man lives long enough to be grateful for a sorrow which, by deepening (which, for personality, is the sâme thing as widening) his heart, deUvered him from ahabit of meanness, — ^wherein he dwelt as in a prison, with a perpétuai grudge against the world— into happy, sympathetic, understanding membership with the community.

The pecuUar plèasure which normal human persons find in social intercourse, in making new