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Page 115 of 1151904 · PDF PAGE 53
…t I am old ; Age is unnecessary : on my knees I beg ( Kneeling) That you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food,” begging what none ever thought to deny him. Yet such is the patience of G oneril that even when goaded by all this infamous B illingsgate into speech, her rebuke is the temperate and modest ll. 198-200. “Why not by the hand, sir ? How have I offended ? All’s not offence that indiscretion finds And dotage terms so.” If we ask a parallel for such meekness under insult, calumny, and foul abuse, we must seek it not in a human story, but…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…refront of his doctrines; and it is this delusion that is con- stantly and inevitably affirmed in all normal consciousness. That Dhyanic thought avoids it is doubtful; even so, Buddha is here repre- sented as giving precepts to ordinary people. And if personality be delusion, a lie is involved in the command of one to another. In short, we all lie all the time; w e are compelled to it by the nature of things themselves—para- doxical as that seems—and the Buddha knew it! THE FIFTH PRECEPT. At last we arrive at the end of our weary journey—surely…
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
… not seem to have been greatly appreciated by the wife; at least one fine morning she was found to be enceinte. The foolish father never thought of the hypothesis which commends itself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second Messiah! He took the utmost pains to con- ceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of Herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into Egypt! Like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beauti…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
… producing conviction.* It has one quality apparently not essential, that of ex- ceeding impermanence. If we examine what we call steady thought, we shall find that its rate of change is in reality inconceivably sw ift. To consider it, to watch it, is beweildering, and to some people becomes intensely terrifying. It is as if the solid earth were suddenly swept away from under one, and there were some dread awakening in outer space amid the rush of incessant meteors—lost in the void. All this is old knowledge; but who has taken steps to alter it…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
… the twentieth century.) It is one we can test. On questions of morality and religion opinions veer ; but if Shakespeare was a leader of thought, he saw through the humbug of the star-gazers ; if not, he was a credulous fool ; not the one man of his time, not a “debauched genius” (for Sir R. Burton in this phrase has in a sense antici- pated my discovery) but a mere Elizabethan. This the greatest poet of all time ? T hen we must believe that Gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…not seem to have been greatly appreciated by the wife ; at least one fine morning she was found to be enceinte. The foolish father never thought of the hypothesis which commends itself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second Messiah ! He took the utmost pains to con- ceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of Herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into Egypt ! Like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beau…