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The Story of Baden-Powell: 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'
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Publisher: Pasco Library
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
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Language: English
AN INTRODUCTORY FRAGMENT ON NO ACCOUNT TO
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ou will be the first to grant me, honoured sir, that after earnestness of pur-
pose, that is to say keenness, there is no quality of the mind so essential
to the even-balance as humour. The schoolmaster without this humanising
virtue never yet won your love and admiration, and to miss your affection
and loyalty is to lose one of life's chiefest delights. You are as quick to detect
the humbug who hides his mediocrity behind an affectation of dignity as
was dear old Yorick, of whom you will read when you have got to know the
sweetness of Catullus. This Yorick it was who declared that the Frenchman's
epigram describing gravity as a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the
defects of the mind, deserved to be wrote in letters of gold; and I make no
doubt that had there been a greater recognition of the extreme value and im-
portance of humour in the early ages of the world, our history books would
record fewer blunders on the part of kings, counsellors, and princes, and the
great churches would not have alienated the sympathy of so many goodly
people at the most important moment in their existence-the beginning of
their proselytism.
3 HAROLD BEGBIE
This erudite reflection is to prepare you for the introduction of my hero,
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell. I introduce him to you as a hero-
and as a humourist. To me he appears the ideal English schoolboy, and the
ideal British officer; but if I had blurted this out at the beginning of my story
you might perhaps have flung the book into an ink-stained corner, thinking
you were in for a dull lecture. It is the misfortune of goodness to be gener-
ally treated with superstitious awe, as though it were a visitant from heaven,
instead of being part and parcel of our own composition. So I begin by as-
suring you that if ever there was a light-hearted, jovial creature it is my hero,
and by promising you that he shall not bore you with moral disquisitions,
nor shock your natural and untainted mind with impossible precepts.
He is a hero in the best sense of the word, living cleanly, despising viciousness
equally with effeminacy, and striving after the development of his talents,
just as a wise painter labours at the perfecting of his picture. Permit me here
to quote the words of a sagacious Florentine gentleman named Guicciardini:
Men, says he, are all by nature more inclined to do good than ill; nor is
there anybody who, where he is not by some strong consideration pulled the
other way, would not more willingly do good than ill.
Goodness, then, is a part of our being; therefore when you are behaving
yourself like a true man, do not flatter yourself that you are doing any su-
perhuman feat. And do not, as some do, have a sort of stupid contempt
for people who respect truth, honesty, and purity, people who work hard at
school, never insult their masters, and try to get on in the world without soil-
ing their fingers and draggling their skirts in the mire. But see you cultivate
humour as you go along. Without that there is danger in the other.
It is useful to reflect that no man without the moral idea ever wrought our
country lasting service or won himself a place in the hearts of mankind. On
the other hand, most of the men whose names are associated in your
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