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future, there are excellent things being done 

 momently about us. But while we wait for 

 the great ones, the excellent ones sometimes 

 create in us a sense of surfeit. We cannot 

 hurry the future, and if meanwhile we crave 

 repose, leisure, quiet, steadiness, the sense of 

 magnitude, we must go to the past. There, 

 and not in the yearly output of our own 

 publishers, we shall find our &quot;comfortable&quot; 

 books. 



