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254 with this enunciation and should have to make it, arbitrarily—it sounds "affected” to us. This is a sphere of the grossest misconception: and the same applies to the style of writer whose habits are not universal habits. His artlessness is felt as such only by him, owing to the very thing which he himself considers "affected"; because he has therein yielded to fashion and the so-called “good taste," he may perhaps give pleasure and inspire confidence. —One superfluous grain of gratitude and piety makes one suffer as from a vice, and incur a evil conscience, despite all one's independence and honesty. —It is the most sensual men who have to shun women and torture their bodies. —It is one of the most difficult tasks of the great art of serving, to serve an excessively ambitious man who, though being in every respect intensely selfish, is thoroughly averse to being considered as such (this is indeed part of his ambition), who wants to be gratified and humoured in all things, yet in such wise as to give himself the appearance of sacrifi