The feast, or the meal eaten by a large gathering, is one of the most universal of all human enjoyments.

But in all such cases the enjoyment involves one thing--namely, a certain similarity, underlying individual differences, between those persons who take part in it.

Intimate social intercourse is, as a rule, possible only between those who are similar in their tastes and ideas with regard to the minute details which for most of us make up the tesserae of life's daily mosaic--similar in their manners, in their standards of beauty and comfort, in their memories, their prospects, or (to be brief) in what we may call their class habituations.

This is true of all men, be their social position what it may.

It is true, of course, that the quality of a man's life, as a whole, depends on other things also, of a wider kind than these.