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It seems to me more and more as I live longer, that most poetry and most literature and particularly the literature of the past is discordant with the vastness and variety, the reserves and resources and recuperations of life as we live it to-day.
I ought not to offer a record of these days, interests, recuperations, without including a certain old, well-thumb'd common-place book, filled with favorite excerpts, I carried in my pocket for three summers, and absorb'd over and over again, when the mood invited. Such a man as it takes ages to make, and ages to understand. H. D. Thoreau. If you hate a man, don't kill him, but let him live.
Instead of that there was a temper of helpfulness beyond the counting. It is easy to glorify this as something characteristically American, or especially Californian. Californian education has, of course, made the thought of all possible recuperations easy. In an exhausted country, with no marginal resources, the outlook on the future would be much darker.
I well remember his declaration on the question, whether the Allies should refuse, for a period of five years during the time of France's recuperations to promise Germany reciprocal tariff provisions. What Mr. Wilson said to Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Clemenceau was this: "Gentlemen, my experts and I both regard the principle involved as an unwise one. We believe it will come back to plague you.
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