The actual has yet to come when, later in life, he is launched into the workaday world of stern reality.

Even then, and till his last day, the early impressions remain, sometimes for short seasons disappearing perchance, but only apparently driven away or suppressed.

They are always rising and coming again to the front to exert their influence, to elevate his thought and color his life.

No bright child of Dunfermline can escape the influence of the Abbey, Palace, and Glen.

These touch him and set fire to the latent spark within, making him something different and beyond what, less happily born, he would have become.