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It is one of the most difficult things in the world perhaps it is one of the impossibles to bring up children amid comforts and conveniences, and yet at the same time to cultivate in them the habit of self-dependence or, as some would call it, the habit of independence.
"It is sartainly a law of nature, Captain Cuffe, that smaller objects should be overlooked, in the presence of greater; and such a thing might happen, therefore; though I should place it among the improbables, if not absolutely among the impossibles.
If it did not pay this year it would next, for half the farmers in the country would have a machine by another year. "And I don't say it is any way among the impossibles that we should conclude to give your little town a lift, by establishing a branch factory in it.
Protestants would not have him, if he were a saint. But prejudice has abated, and confidence in us has increased since the war. Sullivan can have the position if he wants it. So can many others. All of them can afford to wait, while I cannot. I am not a politician, only a candidate. At any moment, by the merest accident, I may become one of the impossibles.
And she realized too that through art, through science and literature and the whole enquiring and creative side of man's nature, lies the path by which those positions are to be outflanked, and those eternal-looking impossibles and inconceivables overcome. Here is a fragment saturated with the essence of her thought. Three-quarters of her earlier letters are variations on this theme....
Previous attempts, less fantastic, have had this fault in common: their categories were susceptible of gradation extremes fused one into the other. What thinking person has not felt the need of some definite, final, absolute classification? We speak of "my kind" and "the other sort," of Those who Understand, of Impossibles, and Outsiders. Some of these categories have attained considerable vogue.
Dear me, can't you explain? Don't you see that this is a most ex " "Here his card, master." Wasn't it curious and amazing, and tremendous, and all that? Such a personage going around calling on such as I, and sending up his card, like a mortal sending it up by Satan. It was a bewildering collision of the impossibles.
I could join most heartily in his desire; but we cannot do impossibilities, and I am as little used to find out the impossibles as most folks; and I think I can discriminate between the impracticable and the fair prospect of success."
It wasn't much of a plan perhaps, but it seemed the most possible among impossibles.
She might be defined, I reflected, as The Woman Who Is Worthy Of Us; but the improbability which every healthily conceited young man must feel of ever finding such a one made the definition seem a little unserviceable. Or, if you prefer, since we seem to be dealing with impossibles, we might turn about and more truly define her as The Woman of Whom We are Worthy, for who dare say that she exists?
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