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The period of growth of any organism is the most interesting and most instructive. And there is no moment of growth in the individual life which can be compared in importance with the moment when a man begins to outtop his age, and to suggest the future evolution of humanity by his own genius. Usually this final stage is passed in solitude:
"Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strome der Welt. "