Show I 1 T the he Tyr torrny iNny of yesterday there are some people oyer whom yesterday tyrannizes ses that is to say they shrink from doing today to day anything that differs in the he least from what they lid did 21 hours ago emerson has called consistency un under ter some circumstances the hobgoblin of little minds and walter has said there are many persons pet sons to whom it is a positive pain to entertain it a new idea this slavish defense to yesterday robs us of many a fine inspiration and many a splendid opportunity letting 1 I dare not wait upon 11 1 I would wol ild we cower and falter and shrink upon the verge of great exploits and achievements merely because these would involve strange and unfamiliar experiences of death itself we are afraid not because death Is painful but because it is different or seems to us different from what wo we have been doing all along |