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In a tourist’s first impression at Rome, he does not comprehend that there have been many cities on the same country, and that the cathedrals and forts and other huge edifices he visits that day lie on an untimelier and non-existent city hidden underneath the ground works of Rome in the 20th Century. In a comparable way, and because all perceptible things in the world have developed out of big things which have come to an end, the world of lifestyles, the concepts, backgrounds, desires, and arts, in which we dwell is a continued existence of a fledgling world which earlier vanished. For example, talking about Friday as a very unfortunate day, or knocking on wood after telling that we have had stroke of luck for a longer time. Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. was an essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. He was born in Cold Spring, N. Y.. Hamilton was the youngest son of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was from a prestigious Scottish-English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose forefathers were Scots-Dutch. They were one of the first settlers to New Amsterdam, New Netherland around 1847. Because of trade openings with the inauguration of the Erie Canal his family emigrated to Buffalo, New York when he was a forthcoming pupil. When he was 16 years old, he qualified for his college entrance examination, but expected a year before he enrolled at Williams College in 1867 and the Columbia Law School 1869. He is widely regarded for these quotations: “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” and “Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.” A few of his works include: Norse Stories, Retold from the Eddas; Nature in New England; My Study Fire; In the Forest of Arden.

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