On Being Human 

Woodrow Wilson
Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D.
President of the United States 

1897
From the Atlantic Monthly 

On Being Human 

I 

"The rarest sort of a book," says Mr.  Bagehot, slyly, is "a book
to read"; and "the knack in style is to write like a human
being." It is painfully evident, upon experiment, that not many
of the books which come teeming from our presses every year are
meant to be read.  They are meant, it may be, to be pondered; it
is hoped, no doubt, they may instruct, or inform, or startle, or