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…ing common sense. In one place, for instance, he refers to influenza as "that dreadful low fever called influenza": which is exactly the truth. When one compares with this description the buckets full of pseudo-scientific bilge of modern medicine, one's disgust makes one long for the level heads and clear eyes of such men as Burton. The descent to the valley offered little new to the eye. The broad Mud Nala had cakeddry; but before doing so it had overflowed to an extra hundred yards or so in breadth in one place. The Narrow Nala was still wet,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 540
…firms the inmost conviction of each one of us that he is the centre of the cosmos. Previous prophets have invariably tried to dodge this truth as making all social systems impossible. Now, for the first time, we can build practically every variety of social structure on this fact. All laws, customs and co-operative efforts can be constructed by the application of this principle for the conditions of environment. And all such structures will be stable, being free from the flaw which has been the bane of all previous systems. The theocracies of a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 554
554 He suddenly developed an entirely new defect. I had always found him truthful. He now adopted a policy of deliberate deceitfulness with the greatest subtlety. It was perfectly imbecile. He had only to say what he wanted and I should have done whatever I could to help him, whatever it was. He, however, persuaded himself that he must keep his plans dark and the final absurdity of the whole thing was that I was aware from the beginning exactly what he intended to do. Our relations ended, bar occasional correspondence, towards the end of the ye…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…lly all Anglo-Saxons have an elaborate system of mental watertight compartments. One of the most important elements of the panic fear of truth in every form, the distrust of any man who seems likely to investigate things seriously, is due to the consciousness that even a superficial analysis will reveal a state of spiritual civil war whose issue it is impossible to foresee. They all pretend to be Christians, yet the injunction "Love your enemies", which by the way is really the first corollary of the Law of Thelema, is universally regarded as i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 355
… could not make much of it. The repetition of the idea was bound to be rather ridiculous. It is my one failure in this period. {573} The truth doubtless is that I had used up the energy accumulated in my wanderings, and written myself out: i.e., as far as anything big was concerned. I was in excellent form with lyrics and wrote several as good as anything I had ever done. In particular "After Judgment", to the honour and glory of Dorothy, will stand in English literature as one of the most passionate poems in the language. It was certainly time…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…fe itself are nothing. I am out to do it. The apparent discrepancy in the gospel narrative aroused no doubt in my mind as to the literal truth of either of the texts. Indeed, my falling away from grace was not occasioned by any intellectual qualms; I accepted the theology of the Plymouth Brethren. In fact, I could hardly conceive of the existence of people who might doubt it. I simply went over to Satan's side; and to this hour I cannot tell why. But I found myself as passionately eager to serve my new master as I had been to serve the old. I w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…nst; always some poor mad Max Nordau is handy to call everything outside the kitchen the asylum. Here, however, there is a substratum of truth. Consider the intolerable long roll of names, all tainted with glorious madness. Baudelaire the diabolist, debauchee of sadism, whose dreams are nightmares, and whose waking hours delirium; Rollinat the necrophile, the poet of phthisis, the anxio- maniac; Péladan, the high priest—of non- sense; Mendés, frivolous and scoffing sensualist ; besides a host of others, most alike in this, that, below the cloak…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…st ; always some poor mad Max Nordau is handy to call everything outside the kitchen the asylum. Here, however, there is a substratum of truth. Consider the intolerable long roll of names, all tainted with glorious madness. Baudelaire, the diabolist, debauchee of sadism, whose dreams are nightmares and whose waking hours delerium; Rollinat the necrophile, the poet of phthisis, the anxio- maniac; Péledan, the high priest—of non- sense ; Mendés, frivolous and scoffing sensualist ; besides a host of others, most alike in this, that, below the cloa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…t one sees the other. All—bar Johnson—hint—but oh! how dimly !—at what I now know to be—érue 2— no, not necessarily true, but nearer the truth. Huxley goes deeper in his demolition of Des- cartes. With him, ‘‘I seea cat,” proves ‘‘some- * Horace,:Odes, I. 3. t Scott, The Lady of the Lake.
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…hat one sees the other, All—bar Johnson—hint—but oh! how dimly!—at what I now know to be— true?— no, not necesarily true, but nearer the truth. Huxley goes deeper in his demolition of Des- cartes. With him, “I see a cat,” proves “some- * Horace, Odes, I. 3. † Scott, The Lady of the Lake.
1906 · PDF PAGE 192
…s his wit. Here, however, the mask is thrown off for any but the utterly besotted ; Edmund’s speech stands up in the face of all time as truth; it challenges the acclamation of the centuries. Edmund is then the hero; more, he is Shakespeare’s own portrait of himself; his ways are dark — (and, alas! his tricks are vain !)—for why? For the fear of the conven- tional world about him. He is illegitimate: Shakespeare is no true child of that age, but born in defiance of it and its prejudices. Having taken this important step, let us slew round the r…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
… his wit. Here, however, the mask is throw n off for any but the utterly besotted ; Edmund’s speech stands up in the face of all time as truth ; it challenges the acclamation of the centuries. Edmund is then the hero ; more, he is Shakespeare’s own portrait of himself ; his ways are dark—(and, alas ! his tricks are vain !)—for why ? For the fear of the conven- tional world about him. He is illegitimate : Shakespeare is no true child of that age, but born in defiance of it and its prejudices. Having taken this important step, let us slew round t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 203
… of inquiry as to what became of the heroic figure of Mathilde Doriac. It is a bitter task to have to write in cold blood the dread- ful truth about her death. She had the mis- fortune to contract, in the last few days of her life with him, the same terrible disease which he describes in the last poem of his coilection. ‘This shock, coming so soon after, and, as it were, aS an unholy perpetual reminder of the madness and sequestration of her lover, no less than of his infidelity, unhinged her mind, and she shot herself on July 5, 1869. Her last…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…of inquiry as to what became of the heroic figure of Mathilde D oriac. It is a bitter task to have to write in cold blood the dread- ful truth about her death. She had the mis- fortune to contract, in the last few days of her life with him, the same terrible disease which he described in the last poem of his collection. This shock, coming so soon after, and, as it were, as an unholy perpetual reminder of the madness and sequestration of her lover, no less than his infidelity, unhinged her mind, and she shot herself on July 5, 1869. Her last let…