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"A word is not a crystal transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Towne vs. Eisner.
He started lessons in composition with Joseph Eisner, a celebrated teacher, who became a life-long adviser and friend. Up to the age of fifteen, Frederic was taught at home, in his father's school. He now entered the Warsaw Lyceum, and proved a good student, twice carrying off a prize.
It was that the boy was a Jew, and who could say in twenty years, educated in the best institutions of Munich he might become a Trotsky or a Bela Kun or Bavarian Eisner. "But why not a Disraeli?" said some one who listened to the story. Permission was eventually granted.
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