Note 83 — Chapter VI · TRUE AND FALSE LIBERALS
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The writer of some verses in an Ohio newspaper, after complaining of the failure of the millennium to arrive in spite of the efforts of “many scores of dreamers, poets, orators and schemers,” concludes as follows:
And so I hold it is not treason To advance a simple reason For the sorry lack of progress we decry. It is this: instead of working On himself, each man is shirking, And trying to reform some other guy.
The author of this doggerel is nearer to the wisdom of the ages than some of our college presidents.