Spades, hammers, and looms belonged to people of another kind.
Besides this great social gulf, there were political and religious ones still wider.

That these differences were traditional, rather than real, made no distinction.

Man have always fought as passionately for an idea as for a fact.

But Dominie Tallisker was a man made for great requirements and great trusts.

He took in the position with the eye of a general.