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various, most stimulating. There the heights and depths of life are visible; there its infinite varieties thrust themselves upon the attention. The labouring man has some touch, even though it be a minimum touch, with that vast com plexity of life ; and his intellect is, in some measure, stimu lated by it though it also exposes him to moral tempta tions which are peculiarly adapted to appeal to his weak nesses and too often lead him to the ruin of all life s values.

IT. We need not dwell long upon the effect of his life- conditions on the development of the emotional side of his personality. The emotional life is limited by the range and variety of one s experiences. Each experience excites in us some feeling. The greater the number and variety of these experiences, the greater the number and variety of emo tional responses. Everything we see, hear, touch, read, think, do, has its reverberation, so to speak, in the feelings. The man who is able to travel much, to move through various circles of society, to have frequent contact with many varieties of his fellow men, to see nature in many of its ever-changing aspects and moods, to read widely and to bring together ideas from several realms of knowledge, to contemplate works of art appreciatively he will have a correspondingly rich, varied and delicately shaded emotional life. Now, it is exactly in these respects that the labouring man s life is so poor and narrowly limited. Hence the poverty of his emotional life. It is necessarily crude. We should naturally expect what we actually see a full de velopment of the fundamental, crude emotions, with but lit tle of the delicacy and refinement of sentiment or &quot; socialized emotion,&quot; as it has been called, which is one of the richest and most precious fruits of culture.

Moreover, the inhibitive power of the mind, which is de pendent upon a strong organization of the upper brain cen tres the power to arrest impulse and control emotion, which is the sign-manual, so to speak, of high personality is necessarily deficient in him. How should it be otherwise? As compared with those whose life-conditions tend to de-

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