... from the views and interests of public men. But, on the other hand, thisvery pressure of an all-surrounding public life brings private men closer together. There they stand, while the tides of ... 40What, then, do I say and think? I say, and I maintain, that the constitution of the world is good, and that the constitution of human nature is good; that the laws of nature and the laws of life ... interviews of considerable length, and remember each of them, the more distinctly from the remarkable habit he had of talking Ton subjects, not upon the general occurences of the day, but upon some...