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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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"For
the
good
of
bachelors
as
well
as
other
people?"
the
Scotch
Preacher
will
press
it
home.
"Certainly,
of
course."
And
when
the
final
issue
comes,
after
full
discussion,
after
he
has
tried
to
lop
off
a
few
yards
of
blackboard
or
order
cheaper
desks
or
dispense
with
the
clothes-closet,
he
votes
for
the
addition
with
the
rest
of
us.
It
is
simply
amazing
to
see
how
much
grows
out
of
these
discussions--how
much
of
that
social
sympathy
and
understanding
which
is
the
very
tap-root
of
democracy.
It's
cheaper
to
put
up
a
miserable
shack
of
an
addition.
Why
not
do
it?
So
we
discuss
architecture--blindly,
it
is
true;
we
don't
know
the
books
on
the
subject--but
we
grope
for
the
big
true
things,
and
by
our
own
discussion
we
educate
ourselves
to
know
why
a
good
building
is
better
than
a
bad
one.
Heating
and
ventilation
in
their
relation
to
health,
the
use
of
"fad
studies"--how
I
have
heard
those
things
discussed!
How
Dr.
North,
who
has
now
left
us
forever,
shone
in
those
meetings,
and
Charles
Baxter
and
the
Scotch
Preacher--broad
men,
every
one--how
they
have
explained
and
argued,
with
what
patience
have
they
brought
into
that
small
schoolhouse,
lighted
by
Charles
Baxter's
lamp,
the
grandest
conceptions
of
human
society--not
in
the
big
words
of
the
books,
but
in
the
simple,
concrete
language
of
our
common
life.
"Why
teach
physiology?"
What
a
talk
Dr.
North
once
gave
us
on
that!
"Why
pay
a
teacher
$40
a
month
when
one
can
be
had
for
$30?"
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