He was always a soldier--a knight. Clemens felt that there would never be any end, and perhaps he was right. hehand of a man with the characteristics of youth, with inspiration, andenthusiasm, and sympathy--a lover of justice and of the sublime. Then you make your own Bible? Yes, from those materials combined with human reason.
So hard does the faith of the unsuccessful dramatistdie. If only Tom Sawyer could have seen him then! If only Olivia Clemenscould have sat among those who gave him welcome! But life is not likethat. He had made up his mind not to read or lecture again forpay, but he seemed to take a peculiar enjoyment in doing these things asa benefaction. It does not matter now, and it was not a matterof very wide import then.
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