In Ruhleben, letters from a prisoner to his mother, with an account of the "university" life, classes, sports, good, accommodation, etc., of the internment camp of British prisoners . orin any way built upon compromise. My life isnot going to be of any use to anyone, or pro-ductive of any work worth doing, if it is all builton a lie, and you may rest quite assured thatwhatever form the physical conditions may takeunder which I shall be called upon to exerciseany efforts, they will not be acquired by a renun-ciation of what is dearest to me, of vou who havenever known what hesitation in the fac
In Ruhleben, letters from a prisoner to his mother, with an account of the "university" life, classes, sports, good, accommodation, etc., of the internment camp of British prisoners . orin any way built upon compromise. My life isnot going to be of any use to anyone, or pro-ductive of any work worth doing, if it is all builton a lie, and you may rest quite assured thatwhatever form the physical conditions may takeunder which I shall be called upon to exerciseany efforts, they will not be acquired by a renun-ciation of what is dearest to me, of vou who havenever known what hesitation in the face of lovingeffort on my behalf meant. There is no diffi-culty in the future for those who have faith andit is no use for me to try and plan my life accord-ing to frames which will have to be changedentirely; but one thing, at any rate, I can do,namely, be true to the call within instead ofhankering after this or that particular form ormould which someone else fills now, and whichin no sense bears within itself the value of theman who fills it. Suffice it for the present tosay that our fears for the future are invariablyevolved by our worship of form and the threat 136 M-O- ? A hn ££ 2. a: Letters to a Mother from Ruhleben to be deprived of that form. Let quality andmotive take the place of quantity and success,and those who kill the success will returnhome with shame in their faces. I hope that you have by now received theletter in which I sent you the list of historypapers. Last Saturday Professor P. read hispaper on the Philosophy of History. I wasin the chair at that meeting, and shall have topreside again to-night, for the paper took thewhole time and was so full of interest that owing; to the suggestion of Mr. and Mr. P—d, we are devoting to-nights meeting to a discussionof last weeks paper, instead of having a newpaper. In the meanwhile, I have been able tolet various members have the manuscript, sothat the criticisms and additions should bevaluable. The chief poi
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