THE FIRE-TENDER. How do you account for the alleged personal regardfor Socrates?

THE PARS0N. Because the world called Christian is still more thanhalf heathen.

MANDEVILLE. He occasionally was a plain man; his sympathies were with the people;he had what is roughly known as "horse-sense," and he was homely.Franklin and Abraham Lincoln belong to his class. They were allphilosophers of the shrewd sort, and they all had humor. It wasfortunate for Lincoln that, with his other qualities, he was homely.That was the last touching recommendation to the popular heart.