# Youth and Life

Author: Bourne, Randolph Silliman, 1886-1918

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67628

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Youth+and+Life+Bourne&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,--all these moods are equally part of that showery springtime of life. One thing, at least, it clearly is: a great, rich rush and flood of energy. It is as if the store of life had been accumulating through the slow, placid years of childhood, and suddenly the dam had broken and the waters rushed out, furious and uncontrolled, before settling down into the quieter channels of middle life. The youth is suddenly seized with a poignant consciousness of being alive, which is quite wanting to the naïve unquestioning existence of...

## Chapters

- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-and-life-67628/chapters/18/index.md)