Driven Back to Eden
Driven Back to Eden
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n't have stood one bit of fault-
finding--I should have said things, and then have been sorry all day
to-morrow. Dear knows, each day brings enough without carrying
anything over. Come, read the paper to me, or tell me what you have
been thinking about so deeply, if you don't mind Merton's hearing
you. I wish to forget myself, and work, and everything that worries
me, for a little while."
"I'll read the paper first, and then, after Merton has learned his lessons, I will tell you my thoughts--my purpose, I may almost say. Merton shall know about it soon, for he is becoming old enough to understand the 'why' of things. I hope, my boy, that your teacher lays a good deal of stress on the WHY in all your studies."
"Oh, yes, after a fashion."
"Well, so far as I am your teacher, Merton, I wish you always to think why you should do a thing or why you shouldn't, and to try not to be satisfied with any reason but a good one."
Then I gleaned from the paper such items as I thought would interest my wife. At l
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