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“...his liberty? a childs voice piped up. All
eyes turned on that boy, and one of the party, looking at the
boys parents, said: I warn you, this boy will come to some
bad end.
However, De Leon boasted of no chivalrous age as far
as the revolutionary game was concerned. He never caught
the disease so common to young aristocrats of the student
class. Even in Germany, so he told me himself, where he
studied during the tumultuous sixties, he never caught
the germ. If there were any revolutionary waves stir-
ring among any of the bodies at Leyden, he either did not
hear of them at all, or their activities rolled past him with-
out making any Impression. He was frankly a young aristo-
crat, bent on acquiring knowledge, drinking with the full
capacity of his ardent spirit the joy of European student life.
The change in his life came about so suddently that even
himself could not explain it. In the Spring of 1886 great...”
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