If you drew one of them aside, and said to him, 'But what about the fruits of the spirit ?'--what sort of look would he give you ?" "I agree entirely," exclaimed Dyce.

"And for that very reason I want to work for a new civilising principle." "If you get into the House, shall you talk there about bio-sociology ?" "Why no," answered Dyce, with a chuckle.

"If I were capable of that, I should have very little chance of getting into the House at all, or of doing anything useful anywhere." "In other words," said his father, still eyeing an unlit pipe, "one must be practical--eh, Dyce ?" "In the right way." "Yes, yes: one must be practical, practical.

If you know which _is_ the right way, I am very glad, I congratulate you.

For my own part, I seek it vainly; I seek it these forty years and more; and it grows clear to me that I should have done much better not to heed that question at all.