All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

224 ALL IX A GARDEX FAIR.
at all like getting a firm grip of the People,
Allen?'
Allen shook his head.
They also made the discovery—made by
many before them—that all the well-dressed
people go to church or chapel, and that those
who are not well-dressed stay away. There-
fore it would seem at first as if religion begins
with a frock-coat, and the man in the work-
man's jacket does not feel any necessity for re-
ligion. This is a most truly wonderful outcome
of civilisation. There seems no active hostility
to church or chapel. Eeligion appears to most
of the people a very harmless thing, but they
don't want it for themselves. And if a man
lacks the religious sense, how shall another man
restore it to him ? Perhaps, when one lives
for e\er in a great crowd, one's own personality
is destroyed, and each man thinks only of the
crowd.
Another day their journey took them
among rows of streets where the houses were
as monotonous, but not so mean ; as uirlv, but