Impressions 



readily recognized. This is a comfort greater 

 than the uninitiated suspect. Specialists who 

 are afraid to speak, and keep the "back-door" 

 ever open, are the greatest bores on earth. It 

 is a trifle discouraging to find ourselves, at this 

 late day, still in the dark concerning the com- 

 moner forms of life. The man who knows 

 what's what, and will throw light over it all, 

 has not yet appeared upon the scene. However 

 diligently we study and finally convince our- 

 selves that we are right, there is always a spe- 

 cialist crossing our path and assuring us we are 

 wrong; and another in his tracks, agreeing only 

 that the poor layman is wrong, but placing his 

 error on a different basis. 



If happiness depended upon the exactitude of 

 our knowledge, then, indeed, would we be mis- 

 erable ! 



During the past year I removed each morn- 

 ing from a calendar the slip of paper bearing 

 the previous day's date, and upon which was 

 a quotation. At the year's close I had read 

 365 brief selections from a modern author's 

 works, and was forced to the unwelcome con- 

 clusion that fully three hundred of the whole 



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