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Page 130 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 27
…gia pro Vita Sua, Cardinal Newman tells us, I suspect truthfully, that as a child he wished that The Arabian Nights were true. As we all know, he gratified his ambitions by accepting for reality the Freudian phantasm of hashed-up paganism with Semitic sauce which led him to the hat. But I went further. My senses and my rational judgment created a subconscious feeling of uneasiness that supernaturalism might not be true. This insulted my inmost consciousness of myself. But the reply was not to accept the false for the true, but to determine to m…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…g of the dearest necessity of life, That the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. If, on the other hand, the store of energy in the universe be indeed constant (whether infinite or no), if personality be indeed delusion, then theft becomes impossible, and to forbid it is absurd. We may argue that even so temporary theft may exist; and that this is so is to my mind no doubt the case. All theft is temporary, since even a …
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
… of the dearest necessity of life. That the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to w hom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. If, on the other hand, the store of energy in the universe be indeed constant (whether infinite or no), if personality be indeed delusion, then theft becomes impossible, and to forbid it is absurd. We may argue that even so temporary theft may exist; and that this is so is to my mind no doubt the case. All theft is temporary, since even a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
… been attacked by collective mania. Everything was thrown at me; they went for me with claws and fists. They were too blind with rage to know what they were doing. I simply knocked their heads {105} together and walked out of the house. When I thought the atmosphere had had time to dissipate I returned with the intention of carrying out a rescue for the distressed damsel. They were too much scared to oppose me and I begged her to come away at once and go to her ex-fiancé's family. But she could not summon up courage to do it. The opportunity we…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…x miles from London, soaked to the skin. I suppose I must have wandered about in the rain for an indefinite period, in pain too great to know what I was doing except to try to be brave. The blow had set up cystitis which kept me in bed for the next three weeks. The inflammation gradually disappeared after spreading to the prostate gland and the urethra. Nor was that the end of the trouble. The urethritis caused a discharge which proved very refractory to treatment and ultimately determined a triple stricture for which I am being treated at the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 349
…to take a penny off the income tax. It is certain that he habitually breaks the Seventh Commandment." In this instance the Ciccu did not know or care what it was that I had read to the Pan society. They merely stated that I hypnotized the entire assembly and took a mean advantage of them. It did not matter to them that what I was supposed to have done is impossible in nature, at least to one of my very mediocre powers. However, the Senior Dean of Trinity, the Rev. R. St. J. Parry, started to make trouble. I went to see him and asked him what ac…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
TIME 271 Scept, 1? soul, no! Myst. Then how do you know all. this about the earth? Goodness gracious bless my How few among us can reach the supreme sanity of Dr. Henry Maudsley in such a book ‘¢ Life in Mind and Conduct ”! ” Hence I regard Agnosticism as little more than a basis of new research into spiritual facts, to be conducted by the methods won for us by men of science. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived —if he li…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
NOTES 207 even what we mean when we say so; but the limits of knowledge, slowly receding, yet never so far as to permit us to unveil the awful and impenetrable adytum of consciousness, or that of matter, must one day be suddenly widened by the forging of a new weapon. Huxley and Tyndall have prophesied this before 1 was born; sometimes in vague lan- guage, once or twice clearly enough; to me it is a source of the utmost concern that their successors should not always see eye to eye with them in this respect. Professor Ray Lankester, in crushing…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
NOTES 65 even what we mean when we say so; but the limits of knowledge, slowly receding, yet never so far as to permit us to unveil the awful and impenetrable adytum of consciousness, or that of matter, must one day be suddenly widened by the forging of a new weapon. Huxley and Tyndall have prophesied this before I w as born; sometimes in vague language, once or twice clearly enough; to me it is a source of the utmost concern that their successors should not always see eye to eye with them in this respect. Professor Ray Lankester, in crushing t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 194
…erable king. Lear, at first quiet in stating his fancied wrongs ‘Reg, ‘I am glad to see your highness.’ Lear, ‘Regan, I think you are; I know what reason I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad, I would divorce me from thy mother’s tomb, Sepulchring an adult’ress. (To Kent). O! are you free? Some other time for that. Beloved Regan, Thy sister’s naught; O Regan! she hath tied Sharp-tooth’d unkindness, like a vulture, here: (Pozzts to his heart). I can scarce speak to thee ; thou'lt not believe with how deprav’da quality—O Regan !’ Reg. …
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…rable king. Lear, at first quiet in stating his fancied wrongs “Reg. ‘I am glad to see your highness.’ Lear. ‘Regan, I think you are ; I know what reason I have to think so : if thou shouldst not be glad, I would divorce me from thy mother’s tomb, Sepulchring an adult’ress. (To Kent). O ! are your free ? Some other time for that. B eloved R egan, Thy sister’s naught : O Regan ! she hath tied Sharp-tooth’d unkindness, like a vulture, here : (Points to his heart). I can scarce speak to thee ; thou’lt not believe with how deprav’d a quality—O Rega…
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
…urs at a time, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains, How they were lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told vy relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only source at the disposal of the biographer is the letter…
1906 · PDF PAGE 193
…l answer me that a man using Lear’s language should be allowed control of a hun- dred armed ruffians [in the face of Kent's behaviour we know what weight to attach to Lear’s defence: ‘‘ Detested kite! thou liest”’ (I. iv. 1. 286)], should ever be allowed outside a regularly appointed madhouse, I will cede the point, and retire myself into an asylum. In fact, Lear is going mad; the tottering intellect, at no time strong (‘‘’'Tis the infirmity of age; yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself,” I. i. ll. 296-7), is utterly cast down by drink a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…ours at a time, work which he destined to entrace the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they w ere lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only source at the disposal of the biographer is the lett…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…l answer me that a man using Lear’s language should be allowed control of a hun- dred armed ruffians [in the face of Kent’s behaviour we know what weight to attach to Lear’s defence : “Detested kite ! thou liest” (I. iv. ll. 286)], should ever be allowed outside a regularly appointed madhouse, I will cede the point, and retire myself into an asylum. In fact, Lear is going mad; the tottering intellect, at no time strong (“’Tis the infirmity of age ; yet he hath ever but slenderly known himsef,” I. i. ll. 296-7), is utterly cast down by drink and…