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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 16.

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Genius

GENIUS.—Intellect can't bear fashionable refinement, and dies under it in one or two generations. If you would select a youth who is likely to make his mark in the world, take one who is carting mud in a clam-shell wagon, or building houses in the sand—and not the delicate baby who is fondling a china lap-dog on the parlor carpet. Daniel Webster's father made a cradle for little Dan out of a pine log, with an axe and auger; Lewis Cass was rocked by his staid New Hampshire mother in a second-hand sugar-trough. The great architects for the manufacture of genius are Poverty and Democracy.