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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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Lucy Larcom
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One
thing
we
are
at
last
beginning
to
understand,
which
our
ancestors
evidently
had
not
learned;
that
it
is
far
more
needful
for
theologians
to
become
as
little
children,
than
for
little
children
to
become
theologians.
They
considered
it
a
duty
that
they
owed
to
the
youngest
of
us,
to
teach
us
doctrines.
And
we
believed
in
our
instructors,
if
we
could
not
always
digest
their
instructions.
We
learned
to
reverence
truth
as
they
received
it
and
lived
it,
and
to
feel
that
the
search
for
truth
was
one
chief
end
of
our
being.
It
was
a
pity
that
we
were
expected
to
begin
thinking
upon
hard
subjects
so
soon,
and
it
was
also
a
pity
that
we
were
set
to
hard
work
while
so
young.
Yet
these
were
both
inevitable
results
of
circumstances
then
existing;
and
perhaps
the
two
belong
together.
Perhaps
habits
of
conscientious
work
induce
thought.
Certainly,
right
thinking
naturally
impels
people
to
work.
We
learned
no
theories
about
"the
dignity
of
labor,"
but
we
were
taught
to
work
almost
as
if
it
were
a
religion;
to
keep
at
work,
expecting
nothing
else.
It
was
our
inheritance,
banded
down
from
the
outcasts
of
Eden.
And
for
us,
as
for
them,
there
was
a
blessing
hidden
in
the
curse.
I
am
glad
that
I
grew
up
under
these
wholesome
Puritanic
influences,
as
glad
as
I
am
that
I
was
born
a
New
Englander;
and
I
surely
should
have
chosen
New
England
for
my
birthplace
before
any
region
under
the
sun.
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