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Outside in the morning.

Tonight, I'll be reading the opening to the 1910 speech by Theodore Roosevelt entitled

Citizenship in a Republic at the Sorbonne in Paris.

The speech is popularly known as the man in the arena.

To this day, someone who is heavily involved in a situation that requires

courage, skill, or tenacity as opposed to someone sitting on the sidelines and watching,

is sometimes referred to as the man in the arena. Let's get cozy.

get cozy.

close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take your mind. Now take a few deep breaths. Strange and impressive associations rise in the mind of a man from the new world who speaks before this August body in this ancient institution of learning. Before his eyes passed the shadows of mighty kings and warlike nobles, of great masters of law and law and theology,

through the shining dust of the dead centuries, he sees crowded figures

the tell of the power and learning and splendor of times gone by. And he sees also the innumerable host of humble students to whom clerkship means

emancipation to whom it was well nigh the only outlet from the dark

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