It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs. It is only when society is old, long settled to its ways, confident in habit, and without self-questioning upon any vital point of conduct, that study can affect seclusion and despise the passing interests of the day.


Princeton for the Nation's Service (21 October 1896).

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It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs. It is only...

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It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs. It is only...