It is easy to see which will be the most painful process: as soon as _he_ gets an idea of whither he is being led, how thankful he will be for every pang that teaches him restraint, and purifies; while we--we shall suffer blind wrench after wrench, _stung_ into feeling at any cost, and not till we painfully overtop the barrier shall we guess whither we are going." I do not mean from this that he thought lightly of sin--far from it.

I have seen him give all the physical signs of shrinking and repulsion, at the mention or sight of it.

He loathed it with all the agonized disgust of a high, pure, fastidious nature.

Its phenomena were without the lurid interest for him which it often possesses even for the sternest moralist.
This loathing had its physical antitype in his horror of the sight or description of bodily disease.

I have seen him several times go off into a dead faint at even the bare description of bodily suffering.