Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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We hesitate, unable for a time to look aside and seek infinity within our skulls within these walls within this town and state within this country and this hemisphere within this ball of dirt on which we ride within this universe — beginning here. We linger, each alone, held by the weight of questions we cannot articulate

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The mind asks questions for which it has no words. From ancient wrought-iron railings, you alone and I alone look farther than the eye can see and wonder that the unwritten sky should draw us to an answer still unknown, unasked for, though desired. Although the birds have been surpassed in freedom and in height, space ships — satellites and rockets — speak in terms of earth: density and heat and radiation. And we must study earth to hear and comprehend, to phrase at first the question. Like it or not, we know our birth is to this world, and though we long for light, discernment co mes with growth, not by a feat of magic dimly wished nor in a burst of wisdom from the skies.

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as every man in time is held by all he does not know. So will he join in labor then to build a place of learning, wall apart a space for study with his neighbor — and for his daughters and his sons that they may enter each alone into the search, and seeking see in the eyes of one another the mutual quest and question; so they’ll seek alone together . . .