p. 13 | IN RETROSPECT by Mary Lowe Dickinson

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 3, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 40.

IN RETROSPECT.

By Mary Lowe Dickinson

If I were a girl again, I do not think I would be quite so set as I was on my own intellectual development. "You think so much of whether people are clever or not," as a friend of mine said to me, when I was a little over twenty, "and so little of anything else." Well, time has its revenges; and I can honestly say that I am inclined to think of "anything else" a good deal more than of cleverness in the men and women that I meet. I think far more of cheerfulness and honesty and truthfulness and amiability than I did in those days, and I would rather that some of my young friends were a little less concerned about being clever and much more concerned about being good.—Mary Lowe Dickinson.