No. 2326: July 8, 1923
Adjunct Professor of Germanic Languages
Comparative Literature Series No. 3
Published by the University of Texas, Austin
The benefits of education and of
useful knowledge, generally diffused
through a community, are essential
to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston
Cultivated mind is the guardian
genius of democracy.... It is the
only dictator that freemen acknowledge
and the only security that free-men
desire.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
To my Father-in-Law
The Reverend George Fisher,
A Christian
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION I
DIAPSALMATA
IN VINO VERITAS (THE BANQUET)
FEAR AND TREMBLING
PREPARATION FOR A CHRISTIAN LIFE
THE PRESENT MOMENT[1]