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than the Puritan of two and a half centuries ago un- reference to the age in which they dwell and the work torical personage we admire the Puritan. thing for every people to have and to develop." And acquired, which the Puritan had not, and "it is a good "As an historical personage/' I said advisedly. And making work of the Puritan. And hence, as an his- that is precisely what the anti-alcoholist would deny it is in that light that Roosevelt admires him. He that which was good in this rare historical charac- great men of the past by dwelling only on the points they have to do." says: "We need have but scant patience with the relief; but there is nothing easier than to belittle the standards of the present. Men must be judged with evident, of course, for it is a quality of strong natures that their failings, like their virtues, stand out in bold Evolution of Ideals. men who now rail at the Puritan's faults. They were derstood. ter, discard that which was faulty and add that which 96 the new era in which we live teaches us to be better The natural inference is that we should hold fast And here enters what Roosevelt calls the "joy of liv- where they come short of the universally recognized ing." That is what we of the twentieth century have

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