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This episode is edited and adapted from The Philosophy of Despair by David Starr Jordan, published in 1902.

Podcast Excerpt: Very few young men or young women of strength and feeling fail to pass through a period of Pessimism. With some it is merely an affectation caught from the cheap literature of decadence. With others, Pessimism has deeper roots and finds its expression in the poetry or philosophy of real despair. This adolescent Pessimism cannot be wrought into action. The mood disappears when real action is demanded.

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