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Show Another Fallacy Shattered. Contact with young people is supposed sup-posed to be rejuvenating ! Indeed, this contact is the only good thing many see in that absorbing and in every other way desirable profession of teaching. Was ever so false an idea? How could so obvious a fallacy get the popular ear? Think how little aware of passing years we should be, were it not for the young ! Their very presence proclaims our greater years. They themselves seem to have conspired con-spired together to help us to a suitable awareness. Every possible aid is offered, of-fered, and offered in the kindest spirit of courtesy. One is helped into wraps, ' relieved of carrying loads or opening doors, guided up and down steps, deposited de-posited In easy chairs, and generally treated as fragile. It is all delightful ; but the force of suggestion as exerted by so many vigorous young minds wdll sooner or later have its effect. We may resist for a time ; ultimately, however, how-ever, we shall take ourselves at the rating of the community in which we live. I have seen my friends capitulate capitu-late one by one, accept the verdict of he majority, and settle down into the accepted properties of middle-age. Atlantic Monthly. |