Excerpt from Uncle Henry: Anonymous
Truth is not a thing to be handled in anger. It has too keen a cutting edge. We want to get rid of the lies in our national life: the hypocrisies, the buncombe, the sham and shoddy; but we want to do it in a way that won"t hurt the patient. (Doctors to the contrary, no operation is a success unless the patient survives it.)
Uncle Henry fills the bill as an almost ideal operating surgeon. He knows, and knows from the inside. There are few things he hasn"t been at some time in his life, and very little that he hasn"t seen.
He has watched men and policies come and go, fashions change, and the flivver crowd out the surrey and the hack. What he has lost in illusions he has gained in humor and human understanding.
As he talks along on marriage, politics, entangling alliances or home brew, we think you will see him for what he is: a man old enough to be past prejudices, partisanship, and bigotry, young enough for tremendous interests and enthusiasms and wise enough to know that you can"t get at people"s minds by making them mad.
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