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...would be an advantage, since it would bring together men of different conditions and opinions, and would offer a new field for intellectual development. In addition, it would be a great advantage to the country to have a hundred and fifty well-educated young men annually scattered over the land, already possessed of a fair knowledge of political questions and some practice in discussion...
...land to land sends back the echo still...
Through all the land like lightning flew...
THOUGH a man spend all his summer vacation in roaming through the fields and woods of this broad land; though he pore for days over the pages of Cassell and peer deep into the works of Cuvier; though he even join the Harvard Natural History Society and listen to the learned discourses of that august body, - though he do any or all of these, the chances are ten to one he will never once meet with that strange creature, the literary butterfly. Yet it is not a rara avis of which I speak; nor do I tell quaint fables...
...which to begin. So I commenced looking around for some favorable investment in this line. Firmly convinced of the truth of the proverb, "Palma non sine argento per vias rectas," my small board fairly burned in my pocket, while I was searching for some good introduction to this unknown land...