Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Solitude Has Its Value. [ARTICLE]

Solitude Has Its Value.

I Proofs of growth due to solitude are , endless. Milton’s greatest work was ' done when blindness, old age and the death of the Puritan government forced him into completes* seclusion. Beethoven did his best work in the solitude of deafness. Bacon would never have been the great leader of sclent title thought had not his trial and disgrace forced him from the company of a grand retinue and stupid court to the solitude of his own brain.