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The kick masculine is coarse, boorish, unmitigated, predicable only of Calibans. The kick feminine is expressive, suggestive, terse, electric, an indispensable instrument in domestic discipline, as women will bear me witness, and not at all incompatible with beauty, grace, and amiability.

A Caliban amidst Calibans, they heap him with their burdens, and feed him on their offal. Let him live; he loved life for himself; he has cheated the gibbet, LET HIM LIVE! Let him watch, let him once more escape; all naked and mangled, let him wander back to the huts of his gang.

But we have kept all the rest! "Every fourth man in our class is a poet. Sam. Smith belongs to our class, who wrote 'My Country 't is of Thee. Sam. Smith will live when Longfellow, Whittier, and all the rest of us have gone into oblivion.... "Queer man, . Looked ten years older than he was, like Caliban. Calibans look always ten years older than they are. A perfect potato of a man.

They have given us the stiletto, the Morgue, the bowie-knife. Our race must inevitably in the end outlive them. The test of man's plane in the scale of being is how far he has outlived them. They are surviving relics of the ape and tiger. But we must let the ape and tiger die. We must cease to be Calibans. We must begin to be human.

A Caliban amidst Calibans, they heap him with their burdens, and feed him on their offal. Let him live; he loved life for himself; he has cheated the gibbet, LET HIM LIVE! Let him watch, let him once more escape; all naked and mangled, let him wander back to the huts of his gang.

The kick masculine is coarse, boorish, unmitigated, predicable only of Calibans. The kick feminine is expressive, suggestive, terse, electric, an indispensable instrument in domestic discipline, as women will bear me witness, and not at all incompatible with beauty, grace, and amiability.

There be Lovelaces and Cagliostros and Calibans; but prithee, good sir, let us judge our kind by the nobler instead of the baser standards. Josephs and St. Anthonys are not plentiful I grant you; but neither are such brutish husbands as those you denounce. Love and poetry and chivalry still have an abiding-place in the heart of man, and the mother and matriarch of this triune is woman. Prof.