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Page 91 of 921929 · PDF PAGE 557
…ok off our clothes and started round the rocks. I showed him how to proceed without the slightest need of swimming, by letting the water take most of his weight, and using his hands to hang on to the large convenient knobs of rock which abound everywhere. He showed the most abject fear, but I supposed that a few minutes would give him confidence. On the contrary his terror increased and I had infinite trouble to get him to come even a couple of hundred yards. We reached the breaking point. He found a ledge, scrambled ashore and shivered. I gave…
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…ssed away by that kind of passing away which leaves nothing whatever behind. 322. A mere law without a will.40—I must not be supposed to take any absurd view of the meaning of the word “law.” This passage denies any knowledge of ultimate causes, not asserts it. But it tends to deny benevolent fore- sight, and a fortiori benevolent omnipotence. Cf. Zoroaster, Oracles: “Look not upon the visible image of the Soul of Nature, for her name is Fatality.” Ambrosius is very clear on this point. I append his famous MS. complete in its English Translatio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 193
…ossing the Yuno, for we were on the wrong side of the river, and a man had had to be sent down from far above to arrange for the raft to take us over. (Until one actually goes travelling in a country of this sort, one can form no idea whatever of the frequency of utterly insuperable obstacles. It was not our fault, for instance, that we were on the wrong side of the river, for the other bank involved a detour of some three days.) {327} It required more than one voyage to cross the river. It could not have been crossed at all but for the fact th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
… account in the Great Work. I perceived, moreover, that all conventional rules of conduct were valid only in relation to environment. To take a fundamental issue: selfpreservation. On the theory of reincarnation or that of immortality, there should be no more objection to dying than there is to going to sleep. In any case, I realized that my physical life was utterly valueless; and I did not set it at a pin's fee. I have never been afraid of carrying into effect my conclusions; and I knew, what is more, that to fail to do so would be merely to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…ed in eleven years what hardly anyone before had done in forty, and it cannot be explained by individual genius, for I have been able to take men with hardly a scrap of talent and teach them what took me eleven years in seven or eight for the firstcomers, in five or six for their successors, and so on till, at the
1929 · PDF PAGE 448
…, and that in a way despite itself. A word should be pertinent with regard to the question of secrecy. It has become difficult for me to take this matter very seriously. Knowing what the secret actually is, I cannot attach much importance to artificial mysteries. It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is. Again, though the secret itself is of such tremendous import, and though it is so simple that I could disclose it and the principal rules for turn…
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…l punish you !” No earnest student of religion or draw poker should fail to commit this anecdote to memory. 767. Mr Chesterton.80—I must take this opportunity to protest against the charge brought by Mr. Chesterton against the English- men “who write philosophical essays on the splendour of Eastern thought.” If he confines his strictures to the translators of that well-known Eastern work the “Old Testament” I am w ith him ; any modern Biblical critic w ill tell him w hat I mean. It took a long time, too, for the missionaries (and Tommy Atkins) …
1929 · PDF PAGE 178
…pline and made themselves notably unpleasant. We rather encouraged them to go off all day and make heroic ascents. But their proposal to take three days' provisions in their rucksacks and go off and climb K2 was negatived. It is really astonishing that so many days of travel had taught them nothing about the scale of the mountains. One cannot measure them by feet and miles. I myself cannot quite see how it is that the difference comes in. But there is not doubt of the fact. It is quite useless to talk of climbing a mountain whose summit is five…
1929 · PDF PAGE 561
… the police claim that they cannot control crime unless they are empowered to make an inquisition into every man's private affairs. They take every opportunity of exceeding their powers of bluffing and badgering anybody that seems to them objectionable in total absence of any evidence whatever to establish so much as a prima facie case against them. In England so far we have not reached the stage of regular frame-ups with deliberate perjury, but there are suspicious signs of movement in that direction. {887}
1904 · PDF PAGE 113
…y of evidence fr om Anglo-Indian medical men, the proof would still be lacking. They might not be the r eal men. The Indian native would take intense delight in bringing round the village idiot to be inspected in the character of a holy m an by the “ Doctor Sahib.” The Anglo-Indian is a fool; a minimum medical education is in most cases insufficient to abate the symptoms to nil, though per haps it m ust alway s diminish them . T he Hindu is the Sphinx of civilisation; nearly all that has been written on him is worthless; those who know him best…
1929 · PDF PAGE 304
… I had heard marvellous stories of the so-called "brick tea" that hails from these parts; and laid in a large stock of various brands to take back to England. The bricks are usually in the shape of a flat cone, somewhat hollow beneath. It reminds one of the straw hats of Japanese coolies. The diameter is from eight inches to one foot and the thicknesses from two to four inches. The flavour is excellent, very subtle and aromatic; but it possesses a property not usually associated with tea, the desirability of which depends on the physiological c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 344
… had a rival brother officer, who somehow discovered one of the cryptograms. (As a matter of fact, it was a simple one; he had merely to take a rule and draw a straight line to make the name and the surname of the girl stand out en toutes lettres.) It might seem that such a man would not know how to draw a line anywhere, but he drew this line --- and arranged that a copy of the book thus marked should be handed to the husband by another member of his party after he had cut his communication with the world, perhaps for years. In point of fact, i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…ation was in the shop. He butted in, remarking superciliously that he could put in the China flavour for me. "Yes," I said, "but can you take out the Ceylon flavour?" Before leaving Eckenstein, I had agreed to consider the question of an Himalayan expedition, to Chogo Ri, marked "K2" on the Indian Survey, 28,250 feet, the second highest mountain in the world. I decided not to go; wishing to devote myself exclusively to spiritual progress. I wrote to this effect; but when I told Allan that I had done so, I found, to my surprise, that he thought …
1929 · PDF PAGE 581
…at he expected a fatal issue. I wrote out a telegram informing his parents so that they might come if they thought fit. Betty offered to take it to the office, but instead of returning, collapsed hysterically in the street before sending it off. It was a common trick of hers to excite sympathy, attract notice or annoy her husband if he happened to say or do anything which she disliked. In her absence, Raoul developed paralysis of the heart and died at once without fear or pain. It was as if a man, tired of staying indoors, had gone out for a wa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 298
…ries in remote districts tend to become sadistically insane from the boredom of their lives. Being brainless, they cannot endure it; and take advantage of their circumstances to vivisect the poor far more freely than is done in London hospitals. Almost every day blesses the traveller with some delightful geographical surprises. I recall, for instance, plodding wearily up a pass of decidedly rugged character. It was natural to expect that the other side of the pass would be not very dissimilar. I reached the top --- and was stupefied. Instead of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 215
…less, May even harm his constitution, Or cause his instant dissolution : Let the worm die, ’tis but a goose less !"’ Not you! You up and take by storm him. You tie him down and chloroform him. You do not pray to Thoth or Horus, But make one dash for his pylorus :— And if ten years elapse, and he. Complains, ‘‘O doctor, pity me ! Your cruel ’ands, for goodness sakes Gave me such ’orrid stomach-aches. 0
1929 · PDF PAGE 496
496 the rich and to take pride in my ability to accept smilingly such insults and privations. During this autumn as fully detailed in another place, the passion to express myself through art was born in me. The months passed in a pageant of delight. My liaison with the Dog came suddenly to an end. Exactly as in the case of my wife, the half- suppressed strain of madness in her blood came to the surface. She took to orgies of solitary drunkenness. This was nothing new; in fact, when I met her they were of almost daily occurrence. I succeeded in …
1929 · PDF PAGE 183
…7,332 feet) directly under the south face of the mountain. Above this camp the glacier becomes comparatively steep and I did not wish to take a change of getting my coolies into trouble. They had amused me very much, by the way, at Camp 8 before starting, by coming and telling me that of course they didn't believe me when I said I would send them back as
1929 · PDF PAGE 483
… my arrival. She pestered me with a string of foolish questions, such as "What is your opinion of America?" I was insulted. What did she take me for that I should pronounce judgment on a continent after twenty-four hours? I replied, nevertheless, "I regard America as the hope of the planet --- the white hope." About this time Jack Johnson was hors concours. White hope had become a slang phrase for a challenger without a chance. Of course she did not see the joke. I became so weary of the woman's stupidity that she was bound to make a hopeless h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
…less, May even harm his constitution, Or cause his instant dissolution : Let the worm die, ’tis but a goose less !” Not you ! You up and take by storm him. You tie him down and chloroform him. You do not pray to Thoth or Horus, But make one dash for his pylorus :— And if ten years elapse, and he Complains, “O doctor, pity me ! Your cruel ’ands, for goodness sakes Gave me such ‘orrid stomach-aches.