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Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician.
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Microcosmographia Academica - Anon
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If you are young, do not read this book; it is not fit for you;
If you are old, throw it away; you have nothing to learn from it;
If you are unambitious, light the fire with it; you do not need its guidance.
But, if you are neither less than twenty five years old, nor more than thirty;
And, if you are ambitious withal, and your spirit hankers after academic politics;
Read, and may your soul (if you have a soul) find mercy!
I WARNING
‘Any one of us might say, that although in words he is not able to meet you at each step of the argument, he sees as a fact that academic persons, when they carry on study, not only in youth as a part of education, but as the pursuit of their maturer years, most of them become decidedly queer, not to say rotten ; and that those who may he considered the best of them arc made useless to the world by the very study which you extol.
‘Well, and do you think that those who say so are wrong?
‘I cannot tell, he replied; but I should like to know what is your opinion?
‘Hear my answer; I am of opinion that they are quite right.’
PLATO, Republic VI
My heart is full of pity for you, O young academic politician. If you will be a politician, you have a painful path to follow, even though it be a short one, before you nestle down into a modest incompetence. While you are young you will be oppressed, and angry, and increasingly disagreeable. When you reach middle age, at five-and-thirty, you will become complacent, and, in your turn, an oppressor; those whom you oppress will find you still disagreeable; and so will all the people whose toes
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