We have spoken of that supreme self-dictation which keeps varying from hour to hour in its dictates with the variation of events and circumstances.

Now, for us, that is ultimate.

It may be founded on some reasonable process, but it is not a process which we can follow or comprehend.

And moreover the dictation is not continuous, or not continuous except in very lively and well-living natures; and between-whiles we must brush along without it.

Practice is a more intricate and desperate business than the toughest theorising; life is an affair of cavalry, where rapid judgment and prompt action are alone possible and right.