Address to the Students of Radcliffe College
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Excerpt from Address to the Students of Radcliffe College: Delivered January 17, 1895 One unlucky day your Dean caught me in an amiable mood by reason of my having seen an old friend whom I had been weak enough to advise to come hither to be the shepherdess of this flock. I was told of her wish that I should give you of such wisdom as I chance to have. I am, like other men, disposed to say "yes" to any woman I like, and generally to all women, because of my conviction that, as they have had knowledge of good and evil longer than men, they must, on the whole, know what is best for us. I did urge as a trifling difficulty that I had nothing to say, and did not possess the art of saying nothing so as to seem to say something, and so what could I but re-coin mere platitudes. My friend replied at once that what she most desired of me was such platitudes as I was likely to furnish. Now this is the hardest task you can set a man, - to hearten up maxims of common sense, give them wings and make them seem angelic counsellors whom you had better make haste to entertain. To be able to do this with efficiency is one of the hall-marks of genius. The world needs no more wisdom; what it wants is the men who take the commonplaces of social life, - the average sense of man, or the much worn words of Christ, and breathe into them fresh life sending them forth anew so clad that we welcome the familiar thing, which, after all, is but an ancient arrow refeathered for a new flight, and winged from a bow of power. Then men hear, and wonder, and obey, and say these things are indeed of the gods. But for such triumphant power of speech a man must be Phillips Brooks or John Ruskin. I, alas, am no such messenger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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