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ABOUT PEOPLE.

reason compared with the love of admiration that takes its root in loneliness. While attributing so much force to this one cause, loneliness, sin itself should not be rated one iota less; but, because it is loneliness, the wrong of righteous humanity in allowing such friendliness to lie in wait all around one is unbounded. The unselfishness and respectability of home affection is very limited. For every woman who tries to help others there are fifty who shrink back.

There are also indirect causes arising from undue familiarity in company, in "society; from too free intercourse between men and women, girls and boys; from too little observance by the parents of young people's pursuits, and from the exclusion of older persons from the good times of the younger; from ill-regulated feeling; and from unhappy marriages, — entered upon without forethought or mutual requirements, and often only as a shelter or an "establishment," — and from wretched pub-

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