Ah, my dear friend," he added, "never speak to a child about a thing unless you _know_ you always do it yourself, and even then with extreme and tender caution." Acting then, on this principle, he did not give us lectures and rules: but we saw how a man was meeting life, not shirking any of its problems, and beset by most of its trials.

And we wondered what was the secret spring of his well-being; and when we came to examine it, we were amazed to find that it was in the strength of principles resulting from a rigid and logical classification of phenomena.
So much is said nowadays about the dissidence of the spiritual and intellectual worlds.

Many people, conscious of intellect, are yet strangely at sea when they are told of their _spiritual_ side.

There appears to be nothing within them answering to that description.
There are, indeed, certain qualities or characteristics, but those seem not to exist independent of their intellectual and physical economies, but to permeate both.

They do not understand that what is meant is the faculty of emotional generalization.