We have been touched to finer issues; we have caught a glimpse of higher ideals; and, for the moment, at least, have been transformed.

The old commonplace life, with its absence of purpose and endeavor, has dropped out of sight, and we resolve, with better heart and newer hope, to struggle to make permanently ours the forces and potentialities that have been revealed to us.
Even a momentary contact with a character of this kind seems to double our mental and soul powers, as two great dynamos double the current which passes over the wire, and we are loath to leave the magical presence lest we lose our new-born power.
On the other hand, we frequently meet people who make us shrivel and shrink into ourselves.

The moment they come near us we experience a cold chill, as if a blast of winter had struck us in midsummer.

A blighting, narrowing sensation, which seems to make us suddenly smaller, passes over us.

We feel a decided loss of power, of possibility.