700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 12
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 12
The life story of the great man must end on the same note as the life story of the least important of men. We must come in our reading to the point where the great man gives up his work, leaving it to others to carry on what he has begun. His life with all its wonderful interest is past, and we who read are left with the memory of his life and with the results of his work. We know that this must be so, but we do not always like a thing better because we know that it is certainly waiting for us, and it is not surprising to find that there are people who can take no pleasure in this form of reading because they know from the outset what the end must be. It is, however, no more profitable to run away, to run our fact from facts in reading than it is in life itself, and it is better to take the wider view and to read for the pleasure and the profit to be found in the consideration of the whole life, with its many difficulties and its many success. In this way we can find both comfort and …
