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I saw, with other eyes than mine, a better world than ours,
But I hear some dismally virtuous youth remark, "Unless we now improve our time, success in life will never be ours."
Nor gives thy form, e'en at such shame as ours, one thrill.
I am no iconoclast. On the contrary, I am an implicit believer in everything old and sanctioned by custom. I do not say that these customs of ours should be given up because they are silly, but that they should be clung to tenaciously because they are old.
In my opinion active measures should be taken at once to prevent such fearful results, and results even more to be feared. "In man there is nothing great but mind"; why then should we let anything take us for a moment from our minds? We come here to cultivate them...