ditions of wealth, station, travel, and
education, and expressing itself in a
peculiar largeness of vision and sweet-
ness of spirit. In this man's friend-
ship I was for the moment lifted out
of my own crudity into that vast
movement and experience in which
all the races have shared.

I am often reminded of this early
impulse and enthusiasm, but there are
occasions when its significance and
value become especially clear to me.
It was brought forcibly to my mind
several years ago by an hour or two
of talk with one who, as truly as any
other American, stands as a repre-
sentative man of culture; one, that is,
whose large scholarship has been so
completely absorbed that it has en-
riched the very texture of his mind,
and given him the gift of sharing the
experience of the race. It was on an

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