Our organs, both physically and morally, are so fearfully constituted that they require to be protected from realities.

As the physical eye has need of clouded glass to look steadily at the sun so it would seem the mind's eye has also need of something smoky to look steadily at truth.

But, while I avoided laying open the secret of my heart to Anna, I sought various opportunities to converse with Dr.Etherington and my father on those points which gave me the most concern.

From the first, I heard principles which went to show that society was of necessity divided into orders; that it was not only impolitic but wicked to weaken the barriers by which they were separated; that Heaven had its seraphs and cherubs, its archangels and angels, its saints and its merely happy, and that, by obvious induction, this world ought to have its kings, lords, and commons.

The usual winding-up of all the Doctor's essays was a lamentation on the confusion in classes that was visiting England as a judgment.