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Show The Tyrrany of Yesterday. There are some people over whom yesterday tyrannizes. That is to say, they shrink from doing to-day anything any-thing that differs in the least from what they did 24 hours ago. Emerson has called consistency, under some circumstances, "the hobgoblin of little lit-tle minds," and Walter Bagehot has said there are many persons to whom it is a positive pain to entertain a new idea. This slavish defense to yesterday yester-day robs us of many c fine inspiration, inspira-tion, and many a spleiu1d opportunity. "Letting 'I dare not' wait upon T would,' " we cower and falter and shrink upon the verge of great exploits ex-ploits and achievements merely because be-cause these would involve strange and unfamiliar experiences. Of death itself it-self we are afraid, not because death is painful, but because it is different or seems to us different from what we have been doing all along. |