When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.