But we who are a generation younger, and who enter upon life from school, with the old maxims only half rooted in our minds, feel the whole fabric tottering.

Doubt and uncertainty reign on every side, and we find ourselves now in a state of eager expectation, and now plunged in gloomy apprehension.

Wheresoever we place our foot, the ground gives way beneath us, and if we wish to sit down and rest awhile, the chair is drawn from under us by some invisible hand.

Thus are we whirled to and fro in a struggle for which we were never prepared, and in which numbers of us miserably perish.

Fathers scold and threaten, while mothers weep because we have forsaken the traditions of our childhood.