Personalities

-Jjet us lesrn (.once in pronouncing judgnjont on peo: p!e. Tho man yotí think you "see through" is not alvrays tho real man. - Tlio man whom you conQdently proo;;nce hard and ifisénsáte has another self somewhere, full of heart and feeling. You have tested some nafure thonmghly, as you fahcy, nnd l'ouud it vaia and frivolous ; if you had the true Ithuriel's spear, you might havo discharged that ílimsy covering, and thrown ligut into a deptíi of sou} that would have startled you. Wio knows. at this present raoi ment, tho futuro rülers of América; i vrh'o recognizcs tho "coming man" until I he comes ? He is matlp, we say, by circumstance. Circumstfinecs do changa men ; humiliating as tho fáot may be, we, the imniaterial, spiritunl esences, ara at the meroy of u thousand material combinations of the veriest triüea in themselyes. As an accident of our ehildhood niakes us cripplcs or irfiota for life, so the accidents - what ve at least cali aoaccidcnts - ofour position, our relation with others, our presnce at a particular time or placo, change us into criminal or héroes. Possibly we have all a heroic self somewhore, ready to taka the placo of the very unhoroie sel{ we are consoicus of to day,'if only circumstances oill into esistenco ; possibly also, and quítff na probably, we havo a criminal stlf- a eli-rping devil that wears our likeness - nnd that oniy waits the hour aud tlje . jilaoo to enter in and tako popcsBion of j ctir perDoRalfay.