There were none of those signs in the animal world outside, of premature stir and cheerful awaking, that in other lands help the illusion that winter lies behind, but there was that even more stimulating sweet air abroad, that subtle mixture of sun and yielding frost, that softened wind that comes blowing across the snow, still keen to the cheek, but subtly reviving to the sensitive nostril, and caressing to the eyes.

It is this menace which has roused practically the whole world against her.

The spiritual worldI beg you to fix this in your mindsis not merely an invisible world which may become visible, but an invisible world which is by its essence invisible; a moral world, a world of right and wrong.

There was a courtly, old-world sort of look about him.

And indeed it is difficult, if not impossible, to re-create effectively the world in which he lived.

Through untold suffering and a woeful cost of human life, it had fought on until England obtained a firm hold in Americaa hold that was to make the New World essentially Anglo-Saxon.

The cave in which these beares lay sleeping sound Was but earth, and with her owne weightinesse 571 Upon them fell, and did unwares oppresse; That, for great sorrow of their sudden fate, Henceforth all worlds felicitie I hate.

But inwardly what a world of difference!

MICHAEL Oh, lordly, wondrous world!

And indeed I have enjoyed it here very much, and it has done Olly a world of good.

The shadow lifted a degree, the eye penetrated to farther regions; a bird piped warily, then freely, a second and a third answered, a fourth took up the tale, blue-jay and thrush, catbird and bobolink; wings began to dart about them, the world to rustle overhead, near and far the dark prime grew instinct with sound, the shores and heavens blew out gales of melody, the air broke up in music.

But then, before you can speak peace to your souls, there is one particular sin you must be greatly troubled for, and yet I fear there are few of you think what it is; it is the reigning, the damning sin of the Christian world, and yet the Christian world seldom or never think of it.

So that simultaneously the world, that vanished world before 1914, was releasing and disengaging enormous volumes of untrained and unassigned feminine energy and also diminishing the usefulness of unskilful effort in every department of life.

One breakfasted and tramped the streets by lamplight, as if there were no such thing as sun-recalled vaguely a world in which it used to be woods with the leaves turning, New York on a bright autumn morning, enchanted tropical dawns.

" So I spoke, as the words came to me, while we were still driving down the dark valley, in deeper shadows, under higher bluffs, looking out on a levelled world westward, stretching off with low, white, wreathing mists and moonlit distances of plains beyond the further bunk.

The sun, as he unlocks the rosy gates of the east, and comes forth to run his glad journey across the sky, diffusing light and warmth upon the vegetable world beneath, moves with the utmost regularity, giving to each succeeding year, "the seasons and their changes.

Above all, I had a true and passionate love of learningnot that love which leadeth on to fame; but rather that self-abandoning devotion which exchangeth willingly the world of action for the world of books, and, for an uninterrupted communion with the "souls of all that men held wise," bartereth away the society of the living.

I am sure, for example, that many of you, listening to what poor account I have been able to give of transcendental idealism, have received an impression of its arguments being strangely thin, and of the terms it leaves us with being shiveringly thin wrappings for so thick and burly a world as this.

Tempest is white; the church is white: the whole world colorless and blinding.