A Somerset Childhood

Few things are more likely than that a man of promise will fail to live up to it, and few things more saddening than reading the memoirs of a failure. The world is full of people who have a superfluity of knowledge, culture and taste—in short all the tools of achievement—but are deficient in the lat...

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Published in	The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot p. 1
Main Author	Prochaska, Frank
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	United States Yale University Press 24.09.2013
Subjects	Applied sociology Arts Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Biology Childhood Children Christianity Churches Cognitive psychology Developmental biology Emotion Emotional states Families Family members Fathers Human developmental stages Human populations Human societies Literary genres Literature Men Mothers Parents Persons Poetry Political change Political processes Political revolutions Political science Politics Population studies Psychology Religion Sadness Social institutions Social sciences Sociology Sociology of religion Spiritual belief systems Women
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Summary:	Few things are more likely than that a man of promise will fail to live up to it, and few things more saddening than reading the memoirs of a failure. The world is full of people who have a superfluity of knowledge, culture and taste—in short all the tools of achievement—but are deficient in the latent impulse and energy which alone can turn such instruments to account. The touching remains of the young in our graveyards gives us no clue to the future fate of those persons had they survived. We can only tell a man of genius
ISBN:	9780300195545 0300195540