no With Feet to the Earth 



morrow. Curious, our inability to live in 

 the present : always for something to 

 come, or because of something past. It 

 is a high price to pay for thought. It 

 is doubtful if the brutes would change 

 with us. 



A jog from a heedless wayfarer arrests you 

 there, and you say, hotly, that brutes have 

 changed places with some of us. These 

 sudden jars do set one's temper bubbling. 

 But when they come it is discipline to put 

 yourself in the offender's place, to see what 

 his object was, if he had one ; and often 

 you calm down in a conviction that you 

 were as much in the way and the wrong as 

 he. Sometimes you find traces of yourself 

 in him when he is not to be forgiven, and 

 then disagreeable truth hurts our feelings 

 worse than slander, doesn't it? When lies 

 are told about us we are conscious of recti- 

 tude, and can afford to care nothing ; but 

 the ugly fact that we know or find to be 

 true stirs remorse, or conscience, and makes 

 our hearts ache. So we are punished ; for 

 hell is the bad that a man thinks of himself. 

 In proportion as he is irresponsible, through 



