He found in altruism more pleasure than his riches, his station and all the grosser sweets of life had given him.
The episodes of this Ballade are so attenuated of any grosser elements that none but psychical meanings should be read into them.
Yet a thoughtful survey of conditions is so careful, and the guessing at results so controlled, that we have a right to mark off the reflective experience from the grosser trial and error forms of action.