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To gain a real knowledge of historical truth, the historian's methods must be slower and more cautious, he must know his author intimately his habits of mind, his turns of style, his preferences, his gifts for seeing the real issue and always the background, and the ways of thinking that prevail in the background.
I shouldn't like to go behind the counter in a grocery store, or " "Black boots for a living?" "Well, hardly," said Walter, laughing. "Probably your guardian will consult your preferences." "I wish I could arrange to travel. I should like to see something of the world." "Why not? You might get an agency of some kind. One college vacation last summer I traveled about as book agent."
If the answer to these questions be affirmative, the evidence of the poets, of our own preferences, of religions ancient and modern, is of merely secondary concern as corroborative, and as serving curiosity to observe how far the teachings of passionless science have been divined or denied by past ages and by other modes of perception and inquiry.
Nothing can be more acceptable to a good father's heart than the knowledge that his son, living and labouring far away from him amid difficulties and opposition, is courageously sacrificing his own preferences, and faithfully seeking to carry out his, the father's, will. In such a son that father sees a reproduction of all that is strongest and best in his own nature.
Lastly, the aim of following nature means to note the origin, the waxing, and waning, of preferences and interests. Capacities bud and bloom irregularly; there is no even four-abreast development. We must strike while the iron is hot. Especially precious are the first dawnings of power.
In matters of science men deal with facts, while in those other matters they deal with fancies, and the more freedom you give them the greater will be the variety of their preferences. Mrs. Besant's new superstition of Theosophy is, in our judgment, more foolish and less dignified than Christianity.
'By no means, mamma, rejoined the young lady 'we have both at times been strangely eccentric in our tastes, and must not ridicule each other's preferences, however singular. 'Well then, you must know that my lover is a very pretty youth of about fifteen, who reciprocates my passion with boyish ardor. You will acknowledge that to a woman of my age, such an amour must be delicious and unique.
But the assumed condition must be rigidly complied with; each elector must express his honest preferences. Whether he will do so or not depends upon the circumstances. Laplace recognized this element of human nature, and declared that if electors are swayed by other considerations independent of the merit of the candidates the system would not apply.
She carried her good looks like the family plate; and when she came into the breakfast-room and said good-morning, it was with an air as if she presented every one with a check for a thousand dollars. Her tastes were accepted as judgments, and her preferences had the force of laws. Wherever she wanted to go in the summer-time, there the finger of household destiny pointed.
A principle for which so much is claimed demands clear definition and inexpugnable foundation in the "solid ground of Nature." Cogent in some measure though the argument would be, we must appeal in the first place neither to the poets, nor to our own naturally implanted preferences in womanhood, nor to any teaching that claims extra-natural authority.
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