DOING WITHOUT
Editor George W. Hunt wrote this in the winter on the hundredth anniversary of his father’s birth: “To our eyes, the world of 1895 looks like a world ‘without’ in every… imaginable way. Without? One can’t help but admire my father’s generation. They seemed to just do things without whining, without the need of therapeutic motivation and without any expectation of congratulations. The virtues they admired were loyalty, self-sacrifice, candor, manliness and womanliness, those unsophisticated steadfast qualities that rarely arouse enthusiasm anymore. But, with another century coming to its close, wouldn’t it be nice to see their like again?” From America, February 25
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