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ABOUT PEOPLE.

will is destroyed. The freedom we claim for ourselves is owed in return. Each finds the practical answer by his own gauge of intuition and experience. The world-wide relations of every person are settled in concentric rings, ever widening from their first or innermost circle. The idea of ought, as opposed to or mingled with the conception of liberality, finds its first circle of decision, embraces those of its own household, the final circle including the brotherhood of humanity.

The manner in which people and events are spoken of in early home-life creates the first impressions, received unconsciously, which will affect the child's future way of thought and action. Soon he notices the variance between words and deeds; he hears his mother say that a certain course of proceeding coincides with her idea of right, and, at the same time, he sees her help a friend in ways averse to her expressed opinion. He

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