The only return he exacted was that of homage.

The yoke was not heavy, for, after all, the homage was to Ideas, to large, sagacious, and far-reaching Thought.

It was in the year 1790 that he broke Gideon Rand's resistance to his son's devotion to other gods than those of the Rands.

The year that followed that evening on the Albemarle road found Lewis Rand reading law in an office in Charlottesville.

A few more years, and he was called to the bar; a little longer, and his name began to be an oft-spoken one in his native county, and not unknown throughout Virginia..