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Martin Eden

CHAPTER XXIV
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And there isn't an original idea in any of their skulls.

They know only the established,--in fact, they are the established.

They are weak minded, and the established impresses itself upon them as easily as the name of the brewery is impressed on a beer bottle.

And their function is to catch all the young fellows attending the university, to drive out of their minds any glimmering originality that may chance to be there, and to put upon them the stamp of the established." "I think I am nearer the truth," she replied, "when I stand by the established, than you are, raging around like an iconoclastic South Sea Islander." "It was the missionary who did the image breaking," he laughed.

"And unfortunately, all the missionaries are off among the heathen, so there are none left at home to break those old images, Mr.Vanderwater and Mr.
Praps." "And the college professors, as well," she added.
He shook his head emphatically.


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