... gen- erous ardour, the better part of the man too often withheld from the social commerce, and the contact of mind with mind evaded as with terror. A... ...n geniality . Thus, 12 Robert Louis Stevenson at least, we have a healthy democratic atmosphere to breathe in while at work; even when there is no co... ...shipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed a different social constitution from his fellow-countrymen either of the south or north... ...house where I spent my youth was not yet thought upon; but we made holiday parties among the cornfields on its site, and ate strawberries and cream ne... ...leasures bear discussion for their own sake, but only those which are most social or most radically human; and even these can only be discussed among ... ...and strength among themselves effectually prevents the appear- ance of the democratic notion. Or we might more exactly compare their society to the cu...