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making work of the Puritan. And hence, as an his- torical personage we admire the Puritan. 96 Evolution of Ideals. "As an historical personage/' I said advisedly. And it is in that light that Roosevelt admires him. He says: "We need have but scant patience with the men who now rail at the Puritan's faults. They were evident, of course, for it is a quality of strong natures that their failings, like their virtues, stand out in bold relief; but there is nothing easier than to belittle the great men of the past by dwelling only on the points where they come short of the universally recognized standards of the present. Men must be judged with reference to the age in which they dwell and the work they have to do." The natural inference is that we should hold fast that which was good in this rare historical charac- ter, discard that which was faulty and add that which the new era in which we live teaches us to be better than the Puritan of two and a half centuries ago un- derstood. And here enters what Roosevelt calls the "joy of liv- ing." That is what we of the twentieth century have acquired, which the Puritan had not, and "it is a good thing for every people to have and to develop." And that is precisely what the anti-alcoholist would deny

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