ABSTRACT
MINGLING with the commonplace men and women of everyday life, we meet, from .time to time, individuals whose leading characteristic can be best described by the word high-minded. They are not always'-perhaps not often-the most successful from a worldly point of view. Like other peop-le . they have their errors a.nd failings; but we feel about them instinctjvely that, whatever these may be, it can be said that they "nothing common did or mean," that there is about them "a strain of rareness " which singles them out from their fellow-men.
