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Excerpt from Little Journeys to Parnassus
In the seventy essays herewith submitted it has been necessary to omit much of interest and value. But if the au thor has succeeded in his purpose, the reader will delve more deeply into the rich mines of which these fragments are but specimen ores. In a time so largely given to material pursuits it may profit us to remember that some old things are true. Times change, but the eternal verities abide. There are truths which age cannot crumble, beauties which time cannot efface. The good and true remain. Nothing else really matters. Out of the chrysalis of things that are dead new beauties bloom, in perpetual kinship with the glory and the dream we thought no more. The rainbow fades, but its colors reappear in a myriad of living forms, in an area bounded only by the limits of the sun.
It was Samuel Johnson who said: That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. Nor is he more to be envied whose mind cannot draw new light from the olden, golden truths that loom like distant stars in the horizon of the soul.
Hence these little journeys to the mount of inspiration. For those whose busy days will not permit a more extensive acquaintance with the great minds of the past the following essays may serve at least to beguile the tedium of a leisure hour; or perhaps as an introduction, faintly, but none the less faithfully, it is hoped, shadowing forth the outlines of those beauties which were not born to die, and which have in every age enriched the soul of man.
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