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Article: Marshall: The Man, the Plan, the Original
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 29, 1987
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There was an 18th-century fellow who confessed he had tried to be
a philosopher, but "I don't know how, cheerfulness was always
breaking in," and then there was that poet who observed (whatever
the general crud of the world) there lies the dearest freshness deep
down things.
Or you may recall that fellow who chopped the tails off mice for
roughly a million generations but the mice kept being born with
tails, leading him to say "there's a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them how we will."
In all these cases the point is that things cannot go wrong
always, and there is something inborn that keeps giving hope to men
and mice alike. Which brings us, of course, to George Catlett ...