His passions were the passions of Demos, violent and revolutionary.

Tyson the Baptist minister had despised the world, vituperated the flesh, stamped on it and stifled it under his decent broadcloth.

If it had any rights he denied them.

Therefore in the person of his son they reasserted their claim; and young Tyson paid it honorably and conscientiously to the full.

In a year's time he knew enough of the world and the lust of it to satisfy the corrupt affections of generations of Baptist ministers, with the result that his university career was suddenly, mysteriously cut short.