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[fol. vii.]

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burden, beat down many a temptation & held the world at arms
length. And his reward? Apparently nothing. Look ing at now
turn your gaze upon this yon man there. He is a lover of art & has
artistic aspirations but fate seems to have condemned him
to some inferior position. He has Another has the gift of song but lack of
money & influence have stifled it. A fourth has dreams of
friendship & they have mocked him. Many there are who Such defeats have induced men to say
that it is better to trudge along one's pathway without thinking
of the horizon. It is many It is wiser to forget that life
has any perspective & to see it merely as a flat surface
of immediate duty. In fact it is better to have no ideals that
we may have no rude awakenings since blighted hopes are
harder to bear than lost possessions & withered hearts than
empty homes. It is however an argument that is not
only utterly false but baneful & destructive. For whatever may in sp. It
is baneful because it is destroys the spark of hope & faith that
may be burning in the human he breast -- It is faulty argument
for the simple reason that try as one might to starve no argument of Prudence can
possibly purge human hearts of their secret dreams. Try
as hard as one may to Starve ideals & to reduce one to

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