Nor is the chancel-rail of Christianity the sole survivor of the more exclusive barriers of olden times, even in the Western world.

In the Far East, where difficulty of access is deemed indispensable to dignity, the material approaches are still manifold and imposing.

Court within court, building after building, isolate the shrine itself from the profane familiarity of the passers-by.

But though the material encasings vary in number and in exclusiveness, according to the temperament of the particular race concerned, the mental envelopes exist, and must exist, in both hemispheres alike, so long as society resembles the crust of the earth on which it dwells,--a crust composed of strata that grow denser as one descends.

What is clear to those on top seems obscure to those below; what are weighty arguments to the second have no force at all upon the first.