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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. Think what we like! said the divinity-student; think what we like! What! against all human and divine authority? Against all human versions of its own or any other authority.
This was the cheerful and encouraging and elegant remark with which the Poor Relation greeted the divinity-student one morning. Of course every good man considers it a great sacrifice on his part to continue living in this transitory, unsatisfactory, and particularly unpleasant world. This is so much a matter of course, that I was surprised to see the divinity-student change color.
He means they get drunk, said the young fellow already alluded to by name. Do you think men of true genius are apt to indulge in the use of inebriating fluids? said the divinity-student. If you think you are strong enough to bear what I am going to say, I replied, I will talk to you about this.
This was the cheerful and encouraging and elegant remark with which the Poor Relation greeted the divinity-student one morning. Of course every good man considers it a great sacrifice on his part to continue living in this transitory, unsatisfactory, and particularly unpleasant world. This is so much a matter of course, that I was surprised to see the divinity-student change color.
I am not so much afraid for truth, said the divinity-student, as for the conceptions of truth in the minds of persons not accustomed to judge wisely the opinions uttered before them. Would you, then, banish all allusions to matters of this nature from the society of people who come together habitually? I would be very careful in introducing them, said the divinity-student.
Fresh-water lakes; one of them, Mary's lake, crystal-clear, full of flashing pickerel lying under the lily-pads like tigers in the jungle. Six pounds of ditto one morning for breakfast. EGO fecit. The divinity-student looked as if he would like to question my Latin. No, sir, I said, you need not trouble yourself. There is a higher law in grammar, not to be put down by Andrews and Stoddard.
There is something in what you say, replied the divinity-student; and yet it seems to me there are places and times where disputed doctrines of religion should not be introduced. You would not attack a church dogma say Total Depravity in a lyceum-lecture, for instance? Certainly not; I should choose another place, I answered. But, mind you, at this table I think it is very different.
Rich, juicy, lively, fragrant, russet skinned old Chaucer was an Easter-Beurre; the buds of a new summer were swelling when he ripened. There is no power I envy so much said the divinity-student as that of seeing analogies and making comparisons.
And Boston is the brain of it, and has been any time these hundred years! That's all I claim for Boston, that it is the thinking centre of the continent, and therefore of the planet. And the grand emporium of modesty, said the divinity-student, a little mischievously. Oh, don't talk to me of modesty! answered the Little Gentleman, I 'm past that!
Iris sat silent by his pillow. After the usual preliminaries, the divinity-student said; in a kind way, that he was sorry to find him in failing health, that he felt concerned for his soul, and was anxious to assist him in making preparations for the great change awaiting him.
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