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kindly dean in point of courtesy. He felt that he was needlessly and
irrationally retarded in a supremely great work; a work which he could of
course conduct to suit himself in later years, but which he wished to begin
while still possessed of the exceptional facilities of the university. That the
tradition-bound elders should ignore his singular results on animals, and
persist in their denial of the possibility of reanimation, was inexpressibly
disgusting and almost incomprehensible to a youth of Wests logical
temperament. Only greater maturity could help him understand the chronic
mental limitations of the professor-doctor typethe product of generations of
pathetic Puritanism; kindly, conscientious, and sometimes gentle and
amiable, yet always narrow, intolerant, custom-ridden, and lacking in
perspective. Age has more charity for these incomplete yet high-souled
characters, whose worst real vice is timidity, and who are ultimately punished
by general ridicule for their intellectual sinssins like Ptolemaism, Calvinism,
anti-Darwinism, anti-Nietzscheism, and every sort of Sabbatarianism and
sumptuary legislation. West, young despite his ......
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