A curious paper, first published in 1879, called "A Siding at a Railway Station," is one of his most direct utterances on the subject.

It will be found in the fourth series of Short Studies, and is in many respects the most remarkable of them all.

"Some years' ago," it begins, "I was travelling by railway, no matter whence or whither." The railway is life, and the siding at which the train was suddenly stopped is the end that awaits all travellers through this world.

The examination of the luggage is the judgment which will be passed upon all human actions hereafter.

Wages received are placed on one side, and value to mankind of service rendered on the other.