Chapter XXI
t;; from Freemans quot;ory of Europequot; to Emertons quot;Middle Ages.quot; t book t gave me any real sense of tory ons quot;orld ory,quot; is no longer considered valid, yet I it ever since as one of my treasures. From it I learned o land and built great cities, rulers, eartitans, put everyt, and es of nations pioneered in art and knoier gro as it of a degenerate age, and rose again, like ty, tolerance and education t and tion of the whole world.
In my college reading I familiar erature. ts strengty, and trution, boterature. t, sledge- everyt is not to impress ot because if find an outlet for ts t burn in his soul.
too, terature a fine reserve s cion I find in it of tency of pervades all German literature and is mystically expressed in Goet;Faustquot;: All transitory But as symbols are sent. Earto event. t is done. the oman Soul leads us upward and on!
Of all ters t I . trike one like a keen blast of sea air. Alfred de Musset is impossible! I admire Victor e icism; t one of my literary passions. But poets of all great nations are interpreters of eternal t reverently folloo ty and truth and Goodness are one.
I am afraid I ten too muc my book-friends, and yet I ioned only t; and from t one mig my circle of friends ed and undemocratic, e pleasure in ties and surprises of ness and t of lily and rose in tier for itude. I kneoo, loved into all manner of , tt for y. I love all ers ains of joy and good y.
In a erature is my Utopia.