Yesterdays

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But who of us does dare to do that? Our ideas about ourselves, our very standards Of good or evil, inevitably make us hypocrites. The traits which would be interesting in a life-story, we keep in shadow, or carefully cover up. I am conscious of it in every page I write, and I would no more tell of my own mistakes and tempers than I would parade them as belonging to my dearest friend, not half as soon, indeed, for we find various ex cuses for relating little accidents of behavior in our friends. We even pride ourselves, to our selves, upon the cleverness Oi our own conclu sions.