Excerpt from The Quest of the Ideal
The word "ideal" is still beautiful, though it is in danger of being horribly misused. It will be a pity if it is cheapened out of existence. I know of none that can take its place. Its roots strike deep into the past. It has grown up like a lily from an immemorial world. It is one of the fairest things among us and very nearly the most valuable.
Perhaps we shall appreciate it more if we call up some of its companions, if we can glance backwards at its origin; but it is no easy matter to get at the real source. When did the first faint conception of a possible ideal arise in any mind?
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