sons, even by means of this
sovereign remedy of travel. It is to be feared that a modern journey is
not always to us so bracing a manner of living as was the untravelled
journey of hard days at home to the ancient islander. To journey as he
did, keeping his feet, with a moving heart against the moving seasons, to
resist, to withstand, widened the hours; but his posterity are taking all
means to narrow their own, even on the railway. To go the same way every
year, for instance, is to lose, when a few such years are gone, nearly
all the gain to life. To take no heed at all of the way, but merely to
be by any means at the end of the travelling, to sleep or go by night,
and to calculate Europe by hours, half-hours, junctions, and dining-cars,
is but to close up the time as though you closed a telescope. A long
railway journey and a long motor journey may be taken with the flight of
time as well as against it, and the habit of summaries can use these too
to its own end. Precipitate, unresisting, are the day in the train and
the heedless night. We love to reproach ourselves with living at too
great a speed, having, perhaps, no sense of the second meaning of the
phrase. Medicine may, perhaps, fulfil her promise of giving us a few
more years, but habit derides her by making each year a scanty gift.

Much, too, of the spirit of time is lost to us because we will not let
the sun rule the day. He would see to it that our hours were various;
but we have preferred to his various face the plain face of a clock, and
the lights without vicissitudes of our nights without seasons.

ADDRESSES

Not free from some ignominious attendance upon the opinion of the world
is he who too consciously withdraws his affairs from its judgements. He
is indebted to "the public." He is at least indebted to it for the fact
that there is, yonder, without, a public. Lacking this excluded
multitude his fastidiousness would have no subject, and his singularity
no contrast. He would, in his grosser moods, have nothing to refuse, and
nothing, in his finer, to ignore.

He, at any rate, is one, and the rest are numerous. They minister to him
popular errors. But if they are nothing else in regard to himself, they
are many. If he must have distinction, it is there on easy terms--he is
one.

Well for him if he does not contract the heavier debt shouldered by the
man who owes to the unknown, un-named, and uncounted his pleasure in
their co