Nothing in familiar letters is so common as the desire to explain anything between ordinary satisfaction and ecstasy in terms of intoxication. It is a method of expression acceptable to writers as well as to readers,neither of whom object to the association of exaltation with less admirable forms of excitement. Common acceptance of this apparent anormaly implies recognition of a relationship between various states of intoxitation,one of them escaping the disadvantages of another. In the more reputable class everything,it would seem,can be intoxitating according to mood and circumstances;and this condition is accepted without challenge as a legitimate means of approach to an infinitude beyond interference from the reasoning faculties of self-consciousness which restricts the intuitive faculties and limits the opportunities of inspiration.