The next day I had to return to London on business, taking leave of the strange household with some regret.

Arthur insisted on driving me to the station.

He talked very brightly of his experiment, and argued at some length as to how far association could be depended upon as an element in education; and how to distinguish those natures early that were loyal to association and those to whom it would be of no authority.
"I have always divided," he said, "the great influences by which ordinary people are determined to action into two classes; and I have connected them with the two staves that the prophet cut, and named 'Beauty and Bands.' "Some people are worked upon by Beauty--direct influences of good; they choose a thing because it is fair; they refrain from action because it is unlovely; they take nothing for granted, but have an innate fastidious standard which the ugly and painful offend.
"Others are more amenable to Bands--home traditions, domestic affections: they do not act and refrain from action on a thing's own merits because it is good or bad; but because some one that they have loved would have so acted or so refrained from acting--'My mother would not have done so;' 'Henry would have disliked it.' The idea is fancifully put, but it holds good, I think." Shortly after my return to London, I got two letters from him of considerable importance.

I give them both.

The first is apropos of the education of Edward Bruce.
"Tredennis, August 30.
"My Dear Friend, "I want you to get me the inclosed list of books, which I find are culpably absent from my library.