| Show Or opposition POSITION TO MEN bevery everybody knows how common it is for old and middle aged men to try to keep oung men from rising in m the world orld by sneers at the youthfulness outha illness of the aspirants aspirant as e even en in in the case of walpole whose taunts against pitt so signally failed to depress the latter and served but to damn their author to e er lasting shame no young pan man of talents ot but has had bad such enemies to encounter men who seem to take a fiendish delight and cherish certain malicious pleasure I 1 in seeking to depress every everything flung like genuine enthusiasm and the buoyant ambition of the bright or brilliant young man this arises arises half from their malice I 1 and as much from utter ignorance of the nature and temperament of genius when the climber upward has gained a place among his peers then it is is that these miserable flatterers flatter ers cringe and f faun aw n as basely as they formerly maligned and ridiculed him and would fain crowd out his old friends and staunch adherents in his bis green age and building season the youth of genius craves and requires sympathy it is is with him especially and in a measure with all men an intellectual want ant as evident as the coarsest necessary elements of existence |
