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any one who helps some young man to make his life righteously
successful has enriched humanity more than he who reveals a Klondike
to the uses and the greed of the clans of trade.
Yes; and he or she who, in the search for strong minds and pure hearts
among young men, discovers to the world a _great_ man has in that
achievement wrought immortality for himself and herself, while
rendering to mankind a service like that of a Columbus or a Pasteur.
For Columbus discovered a new continent; but what of the man or woman
who while looking through all the immaturities of his youth
"discovers" a Columbus.
Thus would I direct the divining keenness of our men of affairs, so
swift and sure to detect advantages in business, to the young men who
wait at their outer gates for recognition and service. I would invite
the world, whose hearing is so sensitive to the material things of
commerce, to the exalted and eternal subject of human characters and
human destinies as they are developing daily, hourly, all about us. In
a word, I ask the ear of the world for its young men.
I read in some sermon--I think it was by Myron Reed--that the most
pathetic thing in life is that a man of either thought or action must
spend two-thirds of his time getting a hearing.
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