In addition, his mind was engrossed with other things, and the principal significance it attached to the passing of a human life at such close quarters was the hope it held out that the parlour might remain vacant.

Its moral significance is patent.

The spiritual significance of social decorum,or, I might say, to borrow from the vocabulary of the "Philosophy of Clothes," the spiritual discipline of which etiquette and ceremony are mere outward garments,is out of all proportion to what their appearance warrants us in believing.

It must certainly be gratifying to those who are profound believers in the efficacy of education, to note that its significance is wider than its service to particular persons and states; that education is, in truth, the conscious and latest mode of that wider world-evolution which has been in progress since the beginning of time.

The significance of the much fumbling and groping of earth's creatures is the desire for a larger outlook.

The significance is the poetry.