St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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i ,YYPJTTEN U mvvsfr it --.X Y ES, s , HE life and experience of Rudolph Barton had not been such as would convince him that the so- called true love of man for woman exists, and often in quiet and seclusion he had endeavored to solve what seemed to him an intricate mystery. He read much and familiarized himself with the philosophy of all ages, yet it seemed to him that he had but progressed in a conf trary direction to his desires, He had almost convinced himself that love is but a fantastic delusion-a snare into which men of meagre minds, as well as men of II genius, had pitifully fallen-an enigma that has puzzled the intellect of the most profound thinkers of all time. He deduced from philosophical writings that the mind of man yearns naturally toward the unattainable, that it loves to cherish idealism, that it is willing to be lured on by the phantas magoric vision of an ideal love. that for the sake of happiness it wilfully pleasing, fleeting illusion. He retically, in the attainment a11d is happiness, but, disputing as brooks and welcomes a had learned that, theo- possession of true love, he did the existence of

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