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lows who ever came to college; but the trouble with him was that he did not care for anything except the one thing he could do best. His friends used to warn him, but he would only say, "What nonsense!" and go on with his work. His specialty was moral philosophy. He took a fellowship and went abroad, became the favorite pupil of the famous Professor Lotze at Göttingen. He hobnobbed and swapped theories of the universe with all the big Herr Philosophers over there, and came back chock-full of stuff about the ego and the sense of oughtness. Strangely enough, despite his German influences, he was dead against the modern evolutionary tendencies in ethics—said sense of oughtness was innate, not merely a product of empiricism.
Several American universities set their caps for him—one of them offered him a full professorship to start with—but he suddenly decided to go into the law. Sense of oughtness told him he ought to, I suppose. Thought that the legal forum offered the greatest opportunities for his analytical
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