What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind. Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

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