11/29 Mr.Percy Dacier also spoke well, as might have been expected, and his uncle's compliment to him was merited. He has read for the Bar, and is younger than Mr.Redworth.The very young men and the old are our hope. The middleaged are hard and fast for existing facts. We pick our leaders on the slopes, the incline and decline of the mountain--not on the upper table-land midway, where all appears to men so solid, so tolerably smooth, save for a few excrescences, roughnesses, gradually to be levelled at their leisure; which induces one to protest that the middle-age of men is their time of delusion. |