Francis A. Adams
Capitolo 95
He asks to permission to proceed with the reading of the list of the
proscribed. He is recognized and its amazing discourse starts.
"In the error of years one is proper to forget the springs from that the
sources of human action are fed; it is commonly the destiny of man to sink
in a state of mind that suffered it is unreceptive and unretentive. The
result is that all'età of thirty he is found incapable of
new and difficult conceptions that grab. This is the reason because so many
injustices are permitted to exist in the world. Men in their youth are
rash; in them mature and their maturity they are negligent or
gladly negligent.
"A degree of the success or a degree of failure it has a likes tendency to blunt
the most excellent qualities of the mind. A man with a competence won't take
friend's troubles to equip his to heart. The unlucky man that doesn't have
the material to sustain its family is in any position to take the
initial in a movement of job or in a political revolution.
"Then the job devolves on the few men that have the means and the
inclination to strive himself/herself/themselves for the improvement of humanity.
"He/she also anchors these men I am not able of to judge for a long time events them
true proportions and relationships.
"Advancement is the one thing how reformatory they fear. The ends that they is able
reaches it is almost always reconstructive; they is never creative."
Nevins sends forth these words with impressive emphasis.
"These comments that I have served as way of prelude to the matter that I am now able
proceeds to directly discuss and sincerely.
"We am each and everybody convinced that the pernicious system to raise
monopolies that have been founded in this country can have but one
you result, the to mine of our popular institutions, and in their place
the substitution of wealthy Plutocracy. This result is detestable to
every true American.
"There is not now, any way of setting monopolies end omits from the people
rising in their strength and reassuming them really.
"The hypocritical suggestion of the leaders of the great universities that