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torical personage we admire the Puritan. 96 thing for every people to have and to develop." And ing." That is what we of the twentieth century have where they come short of the universally recognized they have to do." The natural inference is that we should hold fast great men of the past by dwelling only on the points relief; but there is nothing easier than to belittle the the new era in which we live teaches us to be better says: "We need have but scant patience with the derstood. And here enters what Roosevelt calls the "joy of liv- ter, discard that which was faulty and add that which Evolution of Ideals. men who now rail at the Puritan's faults. They were making work of the Puritan. And hence, as an his- that their failings, like their virtues, stand out in bold than the Puritan of two and a half centuries ago un- that is precisely what the anti-alcoholist would deny it is in that light that Roosevelt admires him. He reference to the age in which they dwell and the work standards of the present. Men must be judged with acquired, which the Puritan had not, and "it is a good that which was good in this rare historical charac- "As an historical personage/' I said advisedly. And evident, of course, for it is a quality of strong natures

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