The bond of thought is the only one that natures of this kind recognize.

"Behold my mother and my brethren," said he, in extending his hand toward his disciples; "he who does the will of my Father, he is my brother and my sister." The simple people did not understand the matter thus, and one day a woman passing near him cried out, "Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which gave thee suck!" But he said, "Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."[4] Soon, in his bold revolt against nature, he went still further, and we shall see him trampling under foot everything that is human, blood, love, and country, and only keeping soul and heart for the idea which presented itself to him as the absolute form of goodness and truth.
[Footnote 1: Luke ii.

42 and following.

The Apocryphal Gospels are full of similar histories carried to the grotesque.] [Footnote 2: Matt.xiii.

57; Mark vi.