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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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You
should
have
heard
the
Scotch
Preacher
answer
that
question!
Many
a
one
of
us
went
away
with
some
of
the
education
which
we
had
come,
somewhat
grudgingly,
to
buy
for
our
children.
These
are
our
political
bosses:
these
unknown
patriots,
who
preach
the
invisible
patriotism
which
expresses
itself
not
in
flags
and
oratory,
but
in
the
quiet
daily
surrender
of
private
advantage
to
the
public
good.
There
is,
after
all,
no
such
thing
as
perfect
equality;
there
must
be
leaders,
flag-bearers,
bosses--whatever
you
call
them.
Some
men
have
a
genius
for
leading;
others
for
following;
each
is
necessary
and
dependent
upon
the
other.
In
cities,
that
leadership
is
often
perverted
and
used
to
evil
ends.
Neither
leaders
nor
followers
seem
to
understand.
In
its
essence
politics
is
merely
a
mode
of
expressing
human
sympathy.
In
the
country
many
and
many
a
leader
like
Baxter
works
faithfully
year
in
and
year
out,
posting
notices
of
caucuses,
school
meetings
and
elections,
opening
cold
schoolhouses,
talking
to
candidates,
prodding
selfish
voters--and
mostly
without
reward.
Occasionally
they
are
elected
to
petty
offices
where
they
do
far
more
work
than
they
are
paid
for
(we
have
our
eyes
on
'em);
often
they
are
rewarded
by
the
power
and
place
which
leadership
gives
them
among
their
neighbours,
and
sometimes--and
that
is
Charles
Baxter's
case--they
simply
like
it!
Baxter
is
of
the
social
temperament:
it
is
the
natural
expression
of
his
personality.
As
for
thinking
of
himself
as
a
patriot,
he
would
never
dream
of
it.
Work
with
the
hands,
close
touch
with
the
common
life
of
the
soil,
has
given
him
much
of
the
true
wisdom
of
experience.
He
knows
us
and
we
know
him;
he
carries
the
banner,
holds
it
as
high
as
he
knows
how,
and
we
follow.
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