Worship, " here, is the outcome of a swift,
sudden, and almost irresistible attraction of one
person towards another ; the feeling is often
involuntary, and at times utterly inexplicable.
No one can deny that it does exist, and that it
may be, and often is, a most subtle and enchanting
link between a man and a boy.
In some natures this attractability, if I may use
the expression, is dormant, and is aroused with
the utmost difficulty ; in others, and chiefly in those
of an artistic or æsthetic temperament, it is con
tinually making itself felt. It will not suffer the
mind to rest, but fills it with fevered longings, and
at length urges the man who gives way to it, into
the presence of the being who so strongly and
strangely attracts him.