Excerpt from Four Aspects of Civic Duty
My occupations within the last month have been so numerous, various, and absorbing that it has been very difficult for me to give thought and proper time of preparation for the series of lectures which, more than a year ago, I was invited to deliver on the Dodge foundation by your alluring secretary - Mr. Stokes. Knowing as I did that it was foolish for me to accept Mr. Stokes"s invitation, and knowing that whenever the time came for me to perform my promise it would certainly be the most inconvenient time in the year, I nevertheless yielded weakly, and agreed to come and say something about the duties of citizenship.
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