The life of Alice Freeman Palmer . re. Up to thistime she had been steadily under compulsion. Thedesire for education, the need of earning her ownsupport, the demands of schools or the college withwhich she was connected, laid their necessitatinghands upon her successive years and allowed herlittle freedom of choice. Now such severities wereended. She was to live in comfort, surrounded byall the opportunities for study, society, and travelwhich were especially congenial to her. Ofiicial tieswere snapped. She had performed a diflScult publicwork, climbing through it from obscurity to note,and s
The life of Alice Freeman Palmer . re. Up to thistime she had been steadily under compulsion. Thedesire for education, the need of earning her ownsupport, the demands of schools or the college withwhich she was connected, laid their necessitatinghands upon her successive years and allowed herlittle freedom of choice. Now such severities wereended. She was to live in comfort, surrounded byall the opportunities for study, society, and travelwhich were especially congenial to her. Ofiicial tieswere snapped. She had performed a diflScult publicwork, climbing through it from obscurity to note,and she was still but thirty-two. For most of us atthat age the tasks of life lie directly ahead; for they were already behind. And a lady of leisure of a peculiar sort Mrs. Palmeractually became. Henceforth she did what shepleased. I have called this last period of her careerher time of Self-Expression, because all that wasdone in it sprang from the glad prompting of disci-plined powers rather than from any pressure of out-. 1 ? warn F r ?J 1 4: *1 j ;i si * $
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