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… Dear Friend! i, 1 Dora steals across the floor, ili. 59 Droop the great eyelids purple-veined! iii, 65 EACH to his trade! live out your life, ii. 167 Ecstasy, break through poetry's beautiful barriers, iii, 67 Ege of the Slime ! Thy loose abortive lips, ii. 8 Enough. It is ended, the story, ili, 216 Ere fades the last red glimmer of the sun, i, 116 Ere the grape of joy is golden, i. 9 Even as beasts, where the sepulchral ocean sobs, i. 178 Even as the traitor’s breath, i. 148 Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacche! iii. 203 Exalted over earth, from hel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
… story everywhere; see boxing, in which a man may get more for half an hour's battery than any dozen university professors receive for a lifetime of devoted labour on behalf of the race. The root of the mischief is the spirit of taking life too seriously. It is really almost expected of the man who happens to run over to Philadelphia from New York {293} for a day, that he should forthwith write an encyclopaedic history of the Quakers. It is hard to prophesy the issue of this tendency, but one can see already that the chivalry of sport is follow…
1929 · PDF PAGE 433
… in a universe of light. Again, "In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked." Elsewhere, deep spiritual wisdom is evoked by tea at Rumpelmayer's, dinner at Lapérouse, breakfast at the Smoking Dog, a walk in the forest, or the dealings of the Master with his disciples. Let me further brag that even uninstructed souls have found enlightenment and ecstasy in these mysterious mutterings. One brilliant boy wrote in Poetry and Drama as follows: Creation and destruction of god…
1929 · PDF PAGE 281
…etween the petty English authorities and the Buddhist ponggis of European extraction who were trying to settle in Rangoon, live the holy life and revive Buddhism as a missionary religion. European officials in a colony are necessarily nuisances to themselves; the consequently try to pass it on to somebody else, on the principle of school bullies --- the prototype of the administration. I personally met with the greatest courtesy and kindness from the authorities in Burma, but the country is not so settled socially as India, and the climate is s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
… potentiality, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite, through all varieties of matter; through infinite diversities of life and thought, possibly , through mo des of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are com petent to form any, back to the indefinable latency from which they arose. Thus the most obvious attribute of the cosmos is its impermenance. It as sumes the aspect not so much of a permanent entity as of a changeful process, in which naught endures save the flow of energy and the rational order which pervad…
1904 · PDF PAGE 100
…re is any place, not only for m orals and religion, which we can very well do without, but for the most essential and continuous acts of life? Why should an infinite Ego fill a non-e xistent body with imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there ? Why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then?” What is the sum total of the Vedantist position ? “ ‘I’ am an illusion, externally. In reality , the true ‘I’ am the Infinite, and if the illusionary ‘I’ could only realise Who…
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
…itual communion than youghave ever obtained by any course of church-going. After which you will, if you are worth your salt, devote your life to the development of this communion, and to the search for an instructed master who can tell you more than I can. Now the earlier paganism is simply over- flowing with this spirit of communion. The boy goes down to the pool, musing, as boys will; is it strange that a nymph should reward him, sometimes even with wine from the purple vats of death? Poor dullards! in your zeal to extinguish the light upon o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 263
…I had borne the burden and heat of the day more than anyone, was as fresh as paint and as fit as a fiddle. I had never felt better in my life. I was in perfect condition in every respect. I spent the afternoon nursing the invalids. Tartarin recovered by the next morning sufficiently to curse. I could not imagine what his grievance was an cannot imagine it now. The most charitable explanation of his conduct that I can give is that he was mentally upset, partly no doubt due to psychical distress, and to some form of heat stroke. I have always bee…
1929 · PDF PAGE 228
… that we are getting clear at last of the obsession of Victorian cocksure materialism --- science disguised as a fat hausfrau!) {381} 48 Life in the jungle has many incidents of a more frequent and less amusing type. One night, also in a baghla, I got up to get Rose her medicine. I had left the candle on the table some distance from the beds, which was foolish. On lighting it, I discovered without enthusiasm that between me and the bed was a krait some eighteen inches long --- and I had walked barefoot over him! A krait can kill you in a very f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 469
…rles the First. I said, "commandeer every man and every munition in the country." I said, "This is not a continental quarrel --- this is life and death for England. We don't want debates in the House of Commons, or even in Earlswood asylum. We want a dictator." No editor would publish it.
1904 · PDF PAGE 110
…e Cosm ic Process.” And in the same essay, though he is disposed to deny more than the rudiments of consciousness to the lower form s of life, he is quite clear that pain varies directly (to put it loosely) with the degree of consciousness. Cf. also “Animal Automatism,” pp. 236-237. (2) S ORROW’S CAUSE.—The caus e of sorrow is desire. I take desire here to include such a phenomenon as the tendency of two molecules of hy drogen and chlorine to com bine under certain conditions. If death be painful to m e, it is presum ably so to a m olecule ; if…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
… {43} his father jumped out of the carriage and cried to the driver that a wheel was coming off. The only trace which this left in later life is that he has always disliked riding in unusual vehicles unless himself in control. He became a reckless cyclist and motorist, but he was nervous for a long while with automobiles unless at the wheel. The last event of this period occurred at a railway station. He remembers its general appearance and that of the little family group. A porter, staggering under a heavy trunk, slid it suddenly off his back.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 338
…ss, subtlety and self-respect! There was another point in favour of our journey. I wanted to get my pupil into the habit of the open-air life, so as to break him more easily of the cocaine habit. The pull of cocaine is almost entirely moral, except in unusually bad cases. {548} There is little or no physical suffering involved in sudden stoppage as there is in the case of opium and its derivatives. I wanted to wean him from the drug by taking his mind off his mother and her machinations, his wife and her wondrousness, his children and their cha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 488
…mile beyond marks a lower rung on the ladder of evolution. St Paul and Minneapolis are merely magnified markets always open. There is no life of any kind outside business. I suppose that poor damned souls are sweating all they know to get out somehow, somewhere. West of the twin cities, even towns become rarer and each is more transient and inhuman than the last. The vastness of nature and the stupendous strength of her elemental forces have cried in vain. They move no man to wonder or admiration. He goes about his ant-like work with hurrying i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…ion to stay with Radcliffe at his headquarters in Baramula, to go shooting. I travelled by dunga in order to see a little more of native life and character, which I was able to do more freely now that my responsibility of the expedition was at an end. I passed two wonderful days of perfect joy on river and lake. I realized the whole of Kubla Khan, including the parts that Coleridge forgot. I understood the exclamation of the Persian poet: If on earth is a heaven of bliss, It is this, it is this, it is this. Radcliffe and I went shooting bears o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…sen. With this book I retired to Wastdale Head for the Easter vacation of 1898. This period proved to be the critical moment of my early life; in two most important respects it determined the direction of my efforts. The two were intimately linked in certain ways and in order to make clear my position I must retrace my steps for a little and bring myself up to date in the matter of climbing, as also of literature. The summers of 1896 and 1897 were spent in the Alps. They were the logical development of my previous experience. I had made up my m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 165
…mulated the creed of Communism; for it is impossible to educate the people. I myself, despite my public school and university, despite a life devoted to continual travel and study of social, political, economic and historical facts, am only too well aware of my abject incompetence to provide a remedy for the least of the diseases which have come to actual issue. I only know that one must abdicate one's intelligence and submit to rule-of-thumb government. The best master is a go-as-you-please generous gentleman who settles everything by rude com…
1929 · PDF PAGE 435
…nvisibility, and this was confirmed by the fact that in one case a policeman heard the shrieks of the dying woman and reached her before life was extinct, yet she lay in a cul-de-sac, with no possible exit save to the street; and the policeman saw no signs of the assassin, thought he was patrolling outside, expressly on the lookout. Miss Collins' friend took great interest in these murders. He discussed them with her and Cremers on several occasions. He gave them imitations of how the murderer might have accomplished his task without arousing t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 325
…nkind; and this must explain why, pari passu with my personal {529} progress, I walked continually in the way of the world. My spiritual life itself was now therefore definitely duplex, and this fact must be kept in mind if my subsequent actions are to be properly understood. Arriving in England on the second of June, I was stunned by the news of my bereavement. I made a point of detaching my mind. In the train from Liverpool to London I continued to chat with my companions on the boat as if nothing had happened. Having got to bed I released th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 336
…r fails to jerk it back to earth with some touch of ridicule or pathos which makes it still an open question whether he will excite that life-giving animosity on the part of Public Opinion which, as we have hinted, is only accorded to the most dangerous thinkers. I was enormously encouraged by this article. I knew how serious my purpose was. She had reassured me on the point where my faith wavered. I had become so accustomed to columns of eloquent praise from the most {544} important people in the world of letters, which had not sold a dozen co…