Improvement Era, Vol. 40

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 40: August, 1937 In that far~away day, some of us strutted Off the campus great war~ riors, others sort of smirked off as renowned diplomats, eclipsing Machiavelli at his best - or worst; others went forth jurists, statesmen, orators, painters, dramatists, officers of cabinet, presidents. Strength knotted our muscles, courage fired our blood, the will to do was king; hope leaped to the top of the top most sky, ambition was a roaring lion, victory stood with arms out stretched, fame smiled and beck~ oued. Oh, what a glorious day it was! What a distinguished class we were! SO we went forth in ecstasy, treading on air. Then we dreamed on, and dreamed to put the world in step, our step, the step of buoyant, vibrant youth. But youth passed on away from us, with the world, not ourselves, still out of step. In this time we first learned some rather Obvious things, that to then we had not really known. Of course you know them already. We learn ed there were day and night, that there were twenty-four hours in a day and 365 days in a year; that we did not keep the same a e, but year by year we grew older that is half of us learned this); that every year had four seasons, falling in the same sequence; that the rain fell on the just and the unjust and that the sun shone on all alike; that when it was cold it was cold for everybody, and the same with the heat. We found that springtime was the time of planting, that fall was the time of harvesting: that if we did not plant in the sprin we could not harvest in the fall; t at seasons of big crops might be followed, and in the Ion View were always followed, by small crops or none at all. We found that the earth and its people were gov erned by law and order and not by whim and caprice, nor by our desire. We learned that the mass of peo ple cared little for what we said and less about what we thought. And Nature did not even know we had Spoken or thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.