Youth!! Ah, what a word!! And how transitory! But, how grand! as long as it lasts. How many millions in gold would pour out for an ability to call it all back, as with our musical myth, Faust. During that magic part of a childs growth this world is just a gigantic inquiry box, containing many a topic for which a solution is paramount to a growing mind. And to whom can a child look, but us adults? Any man who cant stop now to talk with a child upon a topic which, to him istoo silly for anything, should look back to that day upon which that topic was dark and dubious in his own brain. A child who asks nothing will know nothing. That is why that bump of inquiry was put on top of our skulls.

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  • Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth

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