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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BEGINNING AGAIN. Therk are some phases of life which have a special character of their own, it is true and once done with, are thrown by for ever. There aro general conditions through which one passes with moro or less of ease or trouble. Wo, all of us, have only one infancy, and (more'9 the pity) but a single boy-hood, in which there is more or less resemblance of individual to individual. But those two cycles, and the period of youth passed through, likeness ceases, and we are able to draw a broad line of distinction between two great classes of men. If, instead of a fugitive paper, we were inclined to indite a ponderous etymological treatise, we might bo very wise and learned?so much so, that the reader would turn over the pnge in search of something better suited to the light humour of the moment. But wisdom must emerge from the caterpillar into the butterfly state, in order to be sure of being looked at in our age, and so we. shall morelv indicate what we might do, in the grave and serious line, without doing it. We pass over the various theories of philosophers about tall races arid short races, about the distinctions of colour and about the shapes of heads, with the disregard with which the world wisely treats such dull affairs, to note a line of demarcation as wide as any sages have ever drawn the line which separates those who begin again from those who do not; to this we may add, as a further distinction, that the beginners again are generally the unsuccessful, and the others the conquering warriors in the struggle of life. Jeremy Bcntham, in a half sardonic, half-philosophic mood, referred a great part of our miseries to want of fitness; he gave us the comical but apt idea of the world being a large board full of holes, some round and some square, and...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217181495 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021718149X |
| Weight | 2.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.52 In |
| List Price | $53.18 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 778 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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