the student who brings to the study
of current events wide and deep
knowledge of the great historic move-
ments, these apparently unrelated phe-
nomena disclose the most intimate
inter-relations and connections. The
most despairing pessimism would be
born in the heart of the man who
should be fated to see to-day apart
from yesterday and to-morrow; a
rational and inspiring hope may be
born in the soul of the man who sees
the day as part of the year and the
year as part of the century. The great
writers are a refuge from the point of
view of the moment, because they set
the events of life in a fundamental
order, and make us aware of the finer
potentialities of our race. They are
Idealists in the breadth of their vision
and the nobility of the interpretation
of events which they offer us.

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