BROWN WATERS 



up a controversy by tumbling into it a 

 few modern ideas, as thus "You take 

 advantage of your age, measuring it in 

 your convenient way by years alone. It 

 is true that you are forty and I fourteen, 

 but, so far as I can discover, intellectual 

 development ceased with you a quarter 

 of a century ago. Come then, let us 

 reason together as contemporaries. If 

 your added years have brought you 

 anything more valuable than a certain 

 perf ectness of low cunning, the adroit- 

 ness in attaining ends and avoiding 

 consequences of the old dog-fox, you 

 will be the better able to explain and 

 support the course of action that you 

 propose for me. To both of us alike the 

 interior angles of a triangle are neither 

 more nor less than two right angles, also 

 two and ttvo make four, so you may pro- 

 ceed on the assumption that I possess 

 a competent apparatus for criticism. I 

 promise you an attentive, and even a 

 sympathetic hearing. On your part I 



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