It
has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want
of money is so quite as truly.
The above may sound irreverent, but it is conceived in a spirit of the
most utter reverence for those things which do alone deserve it--that is,
for the things which are, which mould us and fashion us, be they what
they may; for the things that have power to punish us, and which will
punish us if we do not heed them; for our masters therefore. But I am
drifting away from my story.
They have another plan about which they are making a great noise and
fuss, much as some are doing with women's rights in England. A party of
extreme radicals have professed themselves unable to decide upon the
superiority of age or youth. At present all goes on the supposition that
it is desirable to make the young old as soon as possible. Some would
have it that this is wrong, and that the object of education should be to
keep the old young as long as possible. They say that each age should
take it turn in turn about, week by week, one week the old to be
topsawyers, and the other the young, drawing the line at thirty-five
years of age; but they insist that the young should be allowed to inflict
corporal chastisement on the old, without which the old would be quite
incorrigible.
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