Christopher: A Study in Human Personality (Classic Reprint)

Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not. Say not so! Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave; No ban of endless night exiles the brave; And to the saner mind We rather seem the dead that stayed behind. Lowell, Commemoration Ode. In this great massacre of youth, in which we are all, to the best of our ability, heavily engaged, having been driven thereto by the diabolical wickedness of a remorseless foe, what slaughter of heaven-sent genius must there inevitably be! Great and simple, high and low, all pass through the valley of the shadow, and many go the way to dusty death. Of this great multitude the majority must be commonplace ordinary mortals, with potentialities undeveloped, and unlikely to be developed by the dull surroundings of ordinary routine.
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