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passionate devotion to causes, believes that all men 

 who seek high position are influenced by love of 

 admiration. He cannot understand a man who cares 

 more for a cause than for the delight of writing 

 " M.P." after his name ; or a bishop who cares more for 

 a principle than to be addressed as " my lord." Yet 

 William Shakspere, who was not of extremely impas- 

 sioned temperament, valued the success of the Globe 

 Theatre more highly than the fame of being known as 

 the author of Hamlet a production which he never 

 expected to be printed. The deeply impassioned 

 Lloyd Garrison gladly hid himself from the public 

 gaze after the downfall of slavery. The intellect, if 

 predominant, is careful of name and fame ; it garners 

 them " like golden grain," while passion, if predomi- 

 nant, " flings them to the winds like rain." History, 

 too, is disposed to take care of those who take care of 

 themselves. If the unimpassioned throw themselves 

 unduly into view in our own day, they have assuredly . 

 thrown themselves unduly into the pages of history. 

 Men were in the past what they are now, and he who 

 would read dead brain must first read the living. 



The very recreations of the active passionless man 

 are uneasy. He is unhappy in repose and rests 

 nowhere long. After a busy day he must have a pun- 

 gent evening. He is found in the theatre, or concert, 

 or church, or the bazaar, at the dinner, or con- 

 versazione, or club, or all these, turn and turn about. 

 But these yield him no real contentment. The woman 

 delights in social stir, in the visit, the tea-table, 

 the dinner, "a little music," the "at home." The 

 man delights in official position, in committees, sub- 

 committees, deputations, councils, boards, parliaments. 

 He is business-like and punctual. If he misses a 



