[4] If the reader were familiar, as he cannot be presumed to have been, with the elder Henry James or his writings, he would be in no danger of finding anything cold or qualifying in these words, but would discern a true adoration expressing itself in a way that was peculiarly characteristic of their writer. For Henry James, Senior, a spiritual democracy deeper than that of our political jargon was not a mere conception: it was an unquestioned reality. The outer wrappings in which people swathed their souls excited him to anger and ridicule more often than praise; but when men or women seemed to him beautiful or adorable he thought it was because they betrayed more naturally than others the inward possession of that humble "social" spirit which he wanted to think of as truly a common possession—God's equal gift to each and all. To say of his mother that that could be felt in her, that she was merely that, was his purest praise. The reader may find this habit of his thought expressing itself anew in William James by turning to a letter on page 210 below. That letter might have been written by Henry James, Senior.
[5] The places of two of the eleven who died early were taken by their orphaned children.
[6] According to the Rev. Hugh Walsh of Newburgh, who has worked out the Walsh genealogy. A Small Boy and Others (page 6) says "Killyleagh."
[7] A Small Boy and Others, p. 8.
[8] Literary Remains of Henry James, Introduction, p. 9.
[9] See, further, Notes of a Son and Brother, pp. 181 et seq.
[10] Society of the Redeemed Form of Man, quoted in the Introduction to Literary Remains, p. 57, et seq.
[11] Letter to Shadworth H. Hodgson, p. 241 infra.
[12] A Small Boy and Others, p. 216.
[13] Vide also a passage in the Literary Remains, at p. 104.