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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 28: the really interesting people (search)
stone goes on with his statesmanship and his scholarship to the end of life; so did Holmes with his inexhaustible sparkle; but their work did not change; we knew what was coming. The interest of the younger generation lies in the fact that we never know just what to expect from them. If we had looked at the late eminent philologist, Professor William D. Whitney, of Yale University, as he appeared in youth, we should have seen a promising geologist; if we had looked at his brother, Professor J. D. Whitney, of Harvard, we should have seen a rising philologist. At a certain period of life they exchanged pursuits; the student of languages gave his brother a Sanskrit grammar, and took in exchange his geological tools. Nothing that either has accomplished, although both have done much, is more essentially interesting than this early interchange of life-work. Fortunately for all concerned, there is always a period, even in America, when the young look with a certain admiration and env