Yet his popularity would have survived the continuance of the storm and deluge.
He did this:--and the mystery puzzling the suspicious was nothing wonderful: in addition to a transparent benevolence, he spread a sort of assurance about him, that he thought the better of the people for their thinking well of themselves.

It came first from the workmen at his house.

'The right sort, and no humbug: likes you to be men.' Such a report made tropical soil for any new seed.
Now, it is a postulate, to strengthen all poor commoners, that not even in comparison with the highest need we be small unless we yield to think it of ourselves.

Do but stretch a hand to the touch of earth in you, and you spring upon combative manhood again, from the basis where all are equal.

Humanity's historians, however, tell us, that the exhilaration bringing us consciousness of a stature, is gas which too frequently has to be administered.