8/28 The foundations of its houses rest on the silurian formation, which is more than can be said for any other capital, as far as I know." "Is that an advantage ?" inquired the Wanderer. I would say to my son, if I had one--my thanks to a blind but intelligent destiny for preserving me from such a calamity!--I would say to him, 'Spend thy youth among flowers in the land where they are brightest and sweetest; pass thy manhood in all lands where man strives with man, thought for thought, blow for blow; choose for thine old age that spot in which, all things being old, thou mayest for the longest time consider thyself young in comparison with thy surroundings.' A man can never feel old if he contemplates and meditates upon those things only which are immeasurably older than himself. |