becomes tragic in its prophecy of
change and suffering. History is full
of corrections of the mistaken judg-
ments of the hour; and from the hate
or adoration of contemporaries, the
wise man turns to the clear-sighted
and inexorable judgment of posterity.
In the far-seeing vision of a trained
intelligence the hour is never detached
from the day, nor the day from the
year; and the year is always held in
its place in the century.

Now, the man of culture has pre-@
eminently the gift of living deeply in
his own age, and at the same time of
seeing it in relation to all ages. It
has no illusion for him; it cannot de-
ceive him with its passionate accept-
ance or its equally passionate rejection.
He sees the crown shining above the
cross; he hears the long thunders of
applause breaking in upon execrations

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