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Independence: Rectorial address delivered at St. Andrews October 10, 1923
The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation. Now that I am older I purpose, if you, my constituents, will permit me, to hand on the Sacred Torch of Boredom. At first sight it may seem superfluous to speak of thrift and independence to men of your race, and in a University that produced Duncan of Ruthwell and Chalmers. I admit it. No man carries coals to Newcastleto sell; but if he wishes to discuss coal in the abstract, as the Deacon of Dumfries discussed love, he will find Newcastle knows something about it. And so, too, with you here. May I take it that you, for the most part, come, as I did, from households conversant with a certain strictnesslet us call it a decent and wary economyin domestic matters, which has taught us to look at both sides of the family shilling; that we belong to stock[Pg 3] where present sacrifice for future ends (our own education may have been among them) was accepted, in principle and practice, as part of life? I ask this, because talking to people who for any cause have been denied these experiences is like trying to tell a neutral of our life between 1914 and 1918. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 68189
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Release Date: May 28, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company,1923
Publication Date: 1923
Publisher Country: United States
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