lost their novelty, they have not lost
the power of enlargement and expan-
sion which were in them at the be-
ginning.

In his own history every man
repeats, within certain limits, the
history of the race; and the inex-
haustible educational value of race
experience lies in the fact that it so
completely parallels the history of
every member of the race. Child-
hood has the fancies and faiths of the
earliest ages; youth has visions and
dreams which form, generation after
generation, a kind of contemporary
mythology; maturity aspires after
and sometimes attains the repose, the
clear intelligence, the catholic outlook
of the best modern type of mind and
character. In some form every mod-
ern man travels the road over which
his predecessors have passed, but he

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