| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: country than I have seen it anywhere--blood-red
and angry. It IS fine."
"You do not want to go back there again?"
she stammered out.
He laughed a little. "No. That's the blamed
gold country. It gave me the shivers sometimes
to look at it--and we were a big lot of men together,
mind; but these Gambucinos wandered alone.
They knew that country before anybody had ever
heard of it. They had a sort of gift for prospect-
ing, and the fever of it was on them too; and they
To-morrow |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: the Saviour, the Second Birth, and Transfiguration--as
showing that they are by no means unique in
our religion, but were common to nearly all the religions
of the ancient world. The list might be much further extended,
but there is no need to delay over a subject which is
now very generally understood. I will, however, devote a
page or two to one instance, which I think is very remarkable,
and full of deep suggestion.
There is no doctrine in Christianity which is more
reverenced by the adherents of that religion, or held in higher
estimation, than that God sacrificed his only Son for the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: flower and the fruit, the infinite gradation in
shades and in flavour of our discriminating love.
He was a child. He was as frank as a child too.
He was hungry for the girl, terribly hungry, as
he had been terribly hungry for food.
Don't be shocked if I declare that in my belief
it was the same need, the same pain, the same tor-
ture. We are in his case allowed to contemplate
the foundation of all the emotions--that one joy
which is to live, and the one sadness at the root of
the innumerable torments. It was made plain by
Falk |
