perience. Most men of any consid-
erable culture date the successive en-
largements of their intellectual lives
from the reading, at successive periods,
of the books of insight and power, --
the books that deal with life at first-
hand. There are, for instance, few
men of a certain age who have read
widely or deeply who do not recall
with perennial enthusiasm the days
when Carlyle and Emerson fell into
their hands. They may have re-
acted radically from the didactic
teaching of both writers, but they
have not lost the impulse, nor have
they parted with the enlargement of
thought received in those first raptur-
ous hours of discovery. There was
wrought in them then changes of
view, expansions of nature, a libera-
tion of life which can never be lost.
This experience is repeated so long as

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