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children is one of the most obvious and binding 

 duties : the hopefulness of the task resting especi- 

 ally upon the fact that, unlike the beasts that 

 perish, man has a lasting external heritage of 

 ideas and ideals, embodied in prose and verse, in 

 statue and painting, in cathedral and university, 

 in tradition and convention, and above all in 

 society itself. 



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