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It sobers and steadies through the responsibility for each other which it means. When men face the world together, and are ready to stand shoulder to shoulder, the sense of comradeship makes each strong. This help may not often be called into play, but just to know that it is there if needed is a great comfort, to know that if one fall the other will lift him up.
On the contrary, she runs and catches up the dear little thing; and if it has hurt itself, she kisses the place to make it well, and says, "Try again, my darling; try again." And it does try again: and in course of time it learns to walk as steadily as its mother; and when she begins to stagger under the infirmities of age, it takes her hand, and steadies her goings.
"Nora and I have always carried guns in the season," replied Kathleen, "even when we were going to school. You see, Larry hates shooting. We loved it and at times were glad to get them the birds, I mean. We did not do it just for sport." "Can your sister shoot as well as you?" "Hardly, I think. She pulls too quickly, you see, but when she steadies down she will shoot better than I."
The drunkard's vulgar proverb recommending 'a hair of the dog that bit you, is but a coarse expression of a common fault. He is wretched until 'another glass' steadies, for a moment, his trembling hand, and gives a brief stimulus to his nerves. They say that the Styrian peasants, who habitually eat large quantities of arsenic, show symptoms of poison if they leave it off suddenly.
I don't mean I'm in earnest now; I hate to see a good man chucking a good profession, and, unless he steadies down, he is bound to chuck it I don't mean any nonsense about your owing it to him. I mean that you can hold him steady longer than anybody else." "Not you?" Opdyke's accent was incredulous. "My grip on him is gone. In the past, I may have helped him.
Excitement then not only steadies him, but it quickens his perceptions, clears his judgment, gives rapidity to his decisions, and terrible force to his blow. Mr. Hawley's duties were of a various and exhausting kind, so that during all the riots, he allowed himself only one hours' rest out of every twenty-four.
In some such way do our living experiences come to us; first, with a shock of pain; then the Soul steadies itself and controls the pain; then the spirit perceives the lesson of the event, and its bearing upon the progressive revelation of life. Through frequent repetition of this process, the mind becomes habituated to it, and there arises an equable flow of perceiving consciousness.
Elsmere! you can't think what a good doctrine it is after all how it steadies one! What chance have we against these blundering gods? "Nothing one can do makes any difference. It is, really very consoling if you come to think of it; and it's no sort of good being angry with Apollo!" "Part nonsense, part bravado," said Catharine, raising clear eyes, with half a smile in them, to Meynell.
The fourth stadium is "understanding," which steadies the fluctuating intuition into a concept, realizes the object, and looks upon it as the cause of the intuition. Fifthly, "judgment" makes its appearance as the faculty of free reflection and abstraction, or the power to consider a definite content or to abstract from it.
If we note this connection of the two clauses we just come to the general principle which lies here, that the true source of steadfastness in character and conduct, of victory over temptation, and of standing fast in slippery places, is simple reliance, or, to use the New Testament word, 'faith, 'Believe and ye shall be established. Put out your hand and clasp Him, and He puts out His hand and steadies you.
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