14.] Jesus, as soon as he began to think, entered into the burning atmosphere which was created in Palestine by the ideas we have just stated.

These ideas were taught in no school; but they were in the very air, and his soul was early penetrated by them.

Our hesitations and our doubts never reached him.

On this summit of the mountain of Nazareth, where no man can sit to-day without an uneasy, though it may be a frivolous, feeling about his destiny, Jesus sat often untroubled by a doubt.

Free from selfishness--that source of our troubles, which makes us seek with eagerness a reward for virtue beyond the tomb--he thought only of his work, of his race, and of humanity.