CHAPTER X.
CLASSICAL ABNORMITIES. Es musz auch solche Kauze geben.
—Goeilie.
"Ne nous emportons point contre les hommes en voyant leur ingratitude, leur injustice, leur fierte, I'amour d'eux-memes, et I'oubli desautres ; ilssont ainsi faits, c est leur nature : s'en facher, c'est ne pouvoir supporter que la pierre tombe, ou que le feu s' el6ve.
Phantasia, non homo.
— La Brayhre
— Petroniiis Arbiter.
Mur. — We are men, my liege.
Mac. — Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.
• — Macbeth,
Human nature turned loose into an unfencecl field cuts queer capers. This we have seen fully illustrated throughout our entire study of the California flush times. Why it does so, or from what turned loose, it does not know. It knows that it is loosened from something, and being like certain gases set free by certain salts, its behavior under the new conditions is peculiar. But the capers thus cut being of the first rank, and the most superior of their kind, may be called classical ; being queer they may be called abnormal. Man's antics are but aberrations of development ; they are a phase of physical and intellectual revolution whose origin and circumstance are according to con- ditions.
Until to some extent set at liberty, human nature never knows that it has been bound ; and when it be- gins to know and feel its bonds, it cannot tell by what powers it was enslaved. And even when its iron fet-
