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    On Being Human
    On Being Human
    On Being Human
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    On Being Human

    By Woodrow Wilson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 1996
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      ON BEING HUMAN

      BY

      WOODROW WILSON

      Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D.

      President of the United States

      1897

      From the Atlantic Monthly

      I

      The rarest sort of a book, says Mr. Bagehot, slyly, is a book to read; and the knack in style is to write like a human being. It is painfully evident, upon experiment, that not many of the books which come teeming from our presses every year are meant to be read. They are meant, it may be, to be pondered; it is hoped, no doubt, they may instruct, or inform, or startle, or arouse, or reform, or provoke, or amuse us; but we read, if we have the true reader’s zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,—as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction,—as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affairs. We wish companionship and renewal of spirit, enrichment of thought and the full adventure of the mind; and we desire fair company, and a larger world in which to find them.

      No one who loves the masters who may be communed with and read but must see, therefore, and resent the error of making the text of any one of them a source to draw

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