The only faculty to be left uncultivated, according to this theory, was that of human love--this being considered destructive, or, at least, greatly prejudicial, to progress and efficiency in any other direction.

The professor could not at the moment recall who it was had evolved this scheme, but it became involuntarily connected in his mind with Bressant's peculiarities.
"According to the letter I received to-day, you come here to be trained to the ministry," resumed he.

"Has all your previous education had this in view ?" "The education would have been the same, understand, whatever the end was to be," explained the young man, with a shrewd smile in his sharp eyes.

"I am as well prepared to study theology as if I had been aiming at it all my life; but I might take up engineering or medicine as well as that.

About a year ago, I decided to become a minister." "And what led you to do that ?" demanded the old gentleman, with rather a stern frown.