The Autobiography of a Boy Passages Selected By His Friend
The Autobiography of a Boy Passages Selected By His Friend
G S George Slythe Street
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I have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, or rather of Thought, and lo ! it is bitter in my mouth. But these are not the reflec- tions I intended to make : I have chosen my part ; le jeu est fait ... I was saying I am sometimes concerned when I think of my contemporaries. It is not that I feel I neglect any duty of making them even as myself. The poor Doctor was warning of that futility : and moreover these young lives are better as they are. Should I cloud their unsophisticated happiness with que...s- tions they can never answer, with doubts they can never solve ? Ah, no indeed. Not from heaven, as the poet feigned, came the precept 'Know thyself. 1 But I sometimes ask myself : Is it fair ? I take their all, as it were, and give them so little of myself. They open themselves to me and keep AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOY 29 nothing back, while I show them but one side, and an unimportant side, of my life and character. Now, as I would wish to be remembered with kindness by my fellows, I set down in this place my justification.
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