Dedication
To
LIGHTNER WITMER
Psychologist and Educator
TO RECALL STUDENT
DAYS IN GERMANY
Epigraph
But all the world’s coarse thumb
And finger failed to plumb,
So passed in making up the main account:
All instincts immature,
All purposes unsure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man’s amount:
Thoughts hardly to be packed
Into a narrow act,
Fancies that broke through language and escaped:
All I could never be,
All men ignored in me,
This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Rabbi Ben Ezra.