The farmers are to be protected and encouraged as they never have been since the Cobdenite revolution; and the Corn Production Bill now passing through Parliament shows what the grim lesson of this war has done to change the old and easy optimism of our people.

Optimism in Despair.

General prosperity in the face of adverse conditions happily attended this record of patriotic achievement, and the predominant spirit in Canada was one of buoyant optimism as to the inevitable outcome of the great conflict.

He came down and ate supper with us at a trestle table in the dimly lighted dining-room, and I encouraged his new-born optimism by ordering two bottles of whisky to take upstairs.

The optimism with which this officer ended his tale makes one smile a little now, though in a pitiful way.

[Footnote 11: He cannot help his mind constantly turning upon women; and if his thoughts of them are often cruelly false, it is not Hamlet but his mother who is to blame: her conduct has hurled him from the peak of optimism into the bottomless pool of pessimistic doubt, above the foul waters of which he keeps struggling to lift his head.]

Unreflecting optimism about Popular Government is sickening, but calculated pessimism is not much better.

There is a buoyant enthusiasm in every page, a sanguine optimism at which the youngest among us might marvel, combined with a familiar acquaintance with the saddest and darkest phenomena of existence.

Love is drawn to truth by the unerring magnetism of agony; it gives no pleasure to the lover to see ten doctors dancing with vociferous optimism round a death-bed.

What was Celtic in him could do no more for him than lend a touch of almost flaring optimism to the Puritan integrity of his character.

His courage was indomitable; his optimism under it all unwavering.

If I could just show our people how badly we fare here, how ill housed, and unsanitary" The girl pressed Peter's fingers with a woman's optimism for a man.