This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... and therein also he has passed away. I still remember that country property which he was anxious to acquire, and over which I accompanied him because I knew the owner. "You will be well off here," I remarked to him; "better years will be in store for you, and will help you to forget the past. This will be your room, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... and therein also he has passed away. I still remember that country property which he was anxious to acquire, and over which I accompanied him because I knew the owner. "You will be well off here," I remarked to him; "better years will be in store for you, and will help you to forget the past. This will be your room, and here you will be alone and at peace." "I should be happy, but I think it is not to be," he replied. "You will be so to-morrow," I urged. "You are going to sign the contract." "You will find that it will never be mine," he persisted. And it never was. You remember how it all turned out. The multitude of the living is sacrificed to the prosperity of the few, as the majority of infants who die is sacrificed to the existence of those who remain, as are millions of acorns to the beauty of the great oaks destined to cover freely some vast tract. And the pitiable part of it is that in this concourse whom fate abandons and thrusts down into the sloughs of life, there are men found who are not constituted to sink with their fate, whose impotent energy withers while it is consumed therein. General laws are no doubt very grand laws, and I should willingly immolate at their shrine a year of my life, say two or even ten years, but my entire being is too much; it may be nothing to Nature, but it is all to me. Save himself who may, is the motto of this mighty movement, and this would be all very well if, sooner or later, the turn of each one came, or if even its hope remained to him. But when life slips past, though the moment of death is uncertain, we know but too well that we are departing. Where, will you tell me, is the hope of the man who at sixty years old has still his hope alone? These la...
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