Revisiting the Earth

Revisiting the Earth
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James Langdon Hill. Revisiting the Earth

Revisiting the Earth

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

REVISITING THE EARTH

To Open Books that are Sealed

Let Me Drop a Hint Here Like a Seed

Pausing for a Fore-taste

Waymarks of the Journey

The Mind's Re-invigoration

The Re-creation of the World

Blessing in the Guise of an Excursion

CHAPTER II

THE PICTURE LAND OF THE HEART

The Vine Must Have the Wall

"The Man Returned who Left these Haunts a Boy"

"I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN"

The Gate to Life

Footprints on the Sands of Time

Things Sweet to Remember

THE LITTLE SANCTUARY

CHAPTER III

THE DEAREST SPOT ON EARTH TO ME

The Glory of Life in its First Spring

The Rule of the Shekel

The Last Wish of Ambitious Minds

Strikes a Chord Unconsciously

Old Home Looks Young Again

The Odor of Apple Blossoms

CHAPTER IV

THE LAND OF USED-TO-BE

Dolling Up

Fitted for a Day Sure to Come

Flights of Oratory

Choosing the Front Subject

Educating Themselves

A New Impetus

The Onward Upward Course

CHAPTER V

SEEN THROUGH THE LONG VISTA OF DEPARTED YEARS

What is Your Problem

On the Road to Learning

The By-product of Development

Best When Most Catching

The Love of Conquest

The Impulse From Incentive and Reward

The Fascination of Matching Abilities and Efforts

The Tug of War

CHAPTER VI

WHERE WE PLAYED MUMBLE-THE-PEG

Developing a Real and Fixed Deformity

An Increased Reverence for the Human Organization

The Open-door Policy

Our Knives Confiscated by Teachers

Happy Hours by Living Streams

Healing in the Pool

And That Reminds Me

One of Life's Schools

Loafing and Laboring

Foibles of the Famous

CHAPTER VII

THE SCENE OF THE SCHOOL FIGHTS

Precipitating a Fracas

Sectional and Factional Fights

Suffering From Personal Collision

Birch, Beech, and Willow Were the Branches Taken

America's Unhappy Hour

Putting on the Character with the Coats of Gentlemen

New Facings to Old Opinions

Fair to Illustrate by the Best Examples

CHAPTER VIII

TOUCHING A LONG SLUMBERING CHORD

The Past at Least is Secure

Where a Critical Struggle was Beginning

Rising Young Men

Tendency to Exaggerate Rather than to Daguerreotype

The Practice Has Boomerang Implications

Things with a Difference

The Changing World

PARADISE LOST—BEFORE THE SALEM FIRE]

PARADISE REGAINED—AFTER THE CONFLAGRATION

The Unexpected Happens

The Past Looks Like a Dream

Achilles Pondered in His Tent

CHAPTER IX

WHAT HAD BECOME OF THE OLD ECCENTRICITIES

Forgetting all Except One Truth

Personalities of Rarest Types

Poet of the One-Hoss Shay Said, "No Extra Charge"

Links with the Past

Boys Did Not Know What to Make of Them

Heroes and Fine Old Gentlemen

Sounds a Characteristic Note

Some Incongruities of Character

CHAPTER X

TO SEE AND FEEL THE PAST

People Looked, People Wondered, People Praised

Making Hay While the Sun Shines

The Death of the Mortgage

A Heaven-sent Device

They Were a Family Again

How Much Like Folks

Absence of the Big Stick

An Outlaw in the Herd

Testing Mighty Principles by Small Experiments

The Home of the Angels

New Forms of Matter, New Crystallizations

A Lesson that Will Last a Lifetime

CHAPTER XI

A RETURN TO ONE'S HOLY LAND

Casting a Reflection Means Nothing Bad

The Glory of Supremacy

Silent Sentinels of the Silent Years

Sunny Silent Homes

Heart Histories Laid Open

A Legacy of Pleasant Memories

The World Teaches an Attentive Mind

Where New Chapters Begin

Nothing Insignificant, Nothing

Halcyon Days

There's a Reason

CHAPTER XII

LOOKING UP SONS OF WELL-REMEMBERED MOTHERS

Consecrated Their Talents to Elevation of Humanity

A Reproof to Defamers of Human Nature

One an Illustration of Many

The Lure of the Store

He Lived With His Mother's Spirit

THE MEETING PLACE OF "THE SENATE"

Astonished as if He Had Seen a Vision

Retrospect is Cheering

No Love Like Mother Love

"Turning the Bend in the Road"

Presence of Our Celestial Helpers

Out of Evil Cometh Good

Pushed by Unseen Hands

CHAPTER XIII

THINGS THAT HAD PASSED AWAY "STILL LIVE"

Books Written by Ourselves

A Hard Road to Travel

Teaching and Learning

Transported Back to the Past

A Boy a "Feeble Beginning of a Mighty End"

Human Nature Unchanged

The Coronation of Labor

Not Criticism, Just Description

To Go to the Top, First Go to the Bottom

The Renewal of the Face of the World

Cables Binding to Safe Moorings

A Fashion that is Wearing Away

Time Can Obliterate as Well as Create

A Table of Priorities

A SEAT OF LEARNING FULL OF MEMORIES

Tremendous Trifles

Critical Periods

CHAPTER XIV

WHERE A VISITANT SEES MORE THAN A RESIDENT

A Sort of Homesickness

Recollections of Other Years

Through Tears of Memory

Unterrified Visitors

When the World was Young

You Can't Paint the Sunrise

Another Relic of the Past

"A Flood of Thoughts Comes O'er Me"

THE GROUNDS OF THE BELOVED COLLEGE

Stepping Into the Past

The College Empire

Just How it Feels

Just Plain Friends

Rekindled Fires

Fortune Keeps Her Own Secrets

Some Social Features

"Fixing Up"

He Had no Pet Virtue

A Disposition to Build Tabernacles

CHAPTER XV

WHERE I MET MYSELF

The Old and New

Words Pale and Inadequate

"Far Away and Long Ago"

Stepping Stones in Recent History

THE GREATEST PLEASURE GIVEN TO MAN

Worthy of Unstinted Praise

Time Tries All Things

The World a Wheel

Pigs is Pigs

CHAPTER XVI

RETRACING THE OLD PATHS

The Land We Love

Lines Cast in Pleasant Places

Andover is Different

Where Every Prospect Pleases

A World of Tender Memories

Andover's Crowning Glory

A Man of Noble Parts

A Soul Melted Into a Voice

CHAPTER XVII

GOING BACK TO MY PADAN-ARAM

First View of Intimate Friends

Cupid's Marksmanship

Remember Lot's Wife

The Supply is Not Exhausted

Heart Histories

Women Not Gone to the Dogs

Shall the Union Survive

Lights in Their Dwellings

CHAPTER XVIII

A NEW KNOCK AT AN OLD DOOR

Lost Facts of Local History

Publicity is Light

Cupid All Smiling

The Royal Families

A Social Revolution

The Glory of the Commonplace

The Missing Link

Money in all Pockets

The Wine of Sweet Remembrance

Ancientness is Falling Off

"Stray Historical Facts Corralled"

The By-products of Development

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Silent Sentinels of the Silent Years

Sunny Silent Homes

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