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Once as a
very young boy he was taken to pass a few days with his grandfather
Brooks under charge of his aunt, but became so violently homesick
that within twenty-four hours he was brought back in disgrace. Yet
he could not remember ever being seriously homesick again.
The attachment to Quincy was not altogether
sentimental or wholly sympathetic. Quincy was not a bed of
thornless roses. Even there the curse of Cain set its mark. There
as elsewhere a cruel universe combined to crush a child. As though
three or four vigorous brothers and sisters, with the best will,
were not enough to crush any child, every one else conspired
towards an education which he hated. From cradle to grave this
problem of running order through chaos, direction through space,
discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always
been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral
of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but
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