“How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams. With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! Aladdin’s Lamp, and Fortunatus’ Purse! That holds the treasures of the universe! All possibilities are in its hands, No danger daunts it and no foe withstands; In its sublime audacity of faith, ‘Be thou removed,’ it to the mountain saith, And with ambitious feet, secure and proud, Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud.” How to face life, how to prepare for life, are questions that must be answered by those who believe, as Lecky put it, that the “map of life” must be marked out, that in the words of Emerson there is such …
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