CHAPTER XIII.
THE REFORMERS.
_SOCIAL_ theories that favor our passions, peculiarities, defects of character or weaknesses are readily adopted, and, with minds of an ardent temper, often become hobbies.

There is a class of persons who are never content with riding their own hobbies; they must have others mount with them.

All the world is going wrong because it moves past them--trotting, pacing or galloping, as it may be, upon its own hobbies.

And so they try to arrest this movement or that, or, gathering a company of aimless people, they galvanize them with their own wild purposes, and start them forth into the world on Quixotic errands.
These persons are never content to wait for the slow changes that are included in all orderly developments.

Because a thing seems right to them in the abstract, it must be done now.