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Page 120 of 1201929 · PDF PAGE 60
…eat that I could hardly bite back the tears, until I thought I had done enough for honour and felt free to slip away. I was engaged that night to a committee meeting of the Climbing Club at the rooms of H. V. Reade in Jermyn Street. I managed somehow to sit through the meeting, the matter being made worse by my insane bashfulness which prevented me asking my host to let me use his bedroom. We proceeded to a restaurant to dinner, but there I broke down and excused myself. The rest of the evening's entertainment remains a mystery. I have a vague …
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…Archibald Bishop, the remarkable preface to whose dreadfully conventionally psychopathic works is this. PREFACE* In the fevered days and nights under the Empire that perished in the struggle of 1870, * To a c ollection of MSS illustrating the “Psy- chopathia Sexualis” of von K raft-Ebing. T he names of the parties have been changed. that w hirling tumult of pleasure, scheming, success, and despair, the minds of men had a trying ordeal to pass through. In Zola’s “La Curée” we see how such ordinary and natural characters as those of Saccard, Maxi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…ie ! We have all possible respect for Mr. Crowley’s re- ligious symbols, and we do not object to his calling upon Shu at any hour of the night. Only it would be unreasonable of him to complain if his r eligious exercises were generally mistaken for an effort to drive away cats. Moreover, the poets of M r. Crowley’s school have, among all their merits, some genuine intellectual dangers from this tendency to im port religions, this free trade in gods. T hat all cr eeds are significant and all gods divine we willingly agree. But this is rather…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…he history of Science, a period has arrived when, gorged with facts, she has sunk into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories. Such a night- mare now rides us; once again philosophy has said its last word, and arrived ata dead- lock. Aristotle, in reducing to the fundamental contradictions-in-terms which they involve the figments of the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Platonists, the Pyrrhonists; Kant, in his reductio ad absurdum of the Thomists, the Scotists, the Wolfians,—all the warri…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…he history of Science, a period has arrived when, gorged with facts, she has sunk into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories. Such a night- mare now rides us ; once again philosophy has said its last word, and arrived at a dead- lock. Aristotle, in reducing to the fundamental contradictions-in-terms which they involve the figments of the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Platonists, the Pyrrhonists ; Kant, in his reductio ad absurdam of the Thomists, the Scotists, the Wolffians,—all the w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 192
…Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, " My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” _-but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is always the rational sober explanation alongside to discredit the folly of the supernatural. Shakespeare is like his own Touchstone; he uses his folly as a stalking-horse, and under the presentation’of that he shoots his wit. Here, however, the mask is thrown off for any but the utterly besotted ; Edmund’s speech stan…
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
196 THE SWORD OF SONG OO night, often working forty hours 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 …
1906 · PDF PAGE 193
…nd, he can think of nothing more sensible than to ask for more! ‘* Kent banished thus! And France in choler parted! And the king gone to-night! sub- scrib'd his power! Confin’d to exhibition! All this done upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?” (Act I. Se. ii. ll. 23-26). Edmund ‘‘forces a card’ by the simple device of a prodigious hurry to hide it. Glou- cester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to anxiomania in its crudest form,— ‘‘'We have seen the best of our time: machi- nations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
…Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, “M y lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” —but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is always the rational sober explanation alongside to discredit the folly of the supernatural. Shakespeare is like his own Touchstone; he uses his folly as a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. Here, however, the mask is throw n off for any but the utterly besotted ; Edmund’s speech stan…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
THE SWORD OF SONG 54 night, often working forty hours 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 sou…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…d, he can think of nothing more sensible than to ask for more ! “Kent banished thus ! And France in choler parted ! And the king gone to-night ! sub- scrib’d his power ! Confin’d to exhibition ! All this done upon the gad ! Edmund, how now ! what news ?” (Act I. Sc. ii. ll 23-26). Edmund “forces a card” by the simple device of a prodigious hurry to hide it. Glou- cester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to axiomania in its crudest form,— “We have seen the best of our time : machi- nations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruino…
1906 · PDF PAGE 203
…one of the tenderest and most pathetic ever written. She seems to have been really loved by George, in his wild, infidel fashion: ‘‘ All Night ” and ‘‘Victory,’’ among others, are obviously in- spired by her beauty; and her devotion to him, the abasement of soul, the prostitution of body, she underwent for and with him, is one of the noblest stories life has known. She seems to have dived with him, yet ever trying to raise his soul from the quagmire; if God is just at all, she shall stand more near to His right hand than the vaunted virgins who…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…one of the tenderest and most pathetic ever written. She seems to have been really loved by George, in his w ild, infidel fashion : “All Night” and “Victory,” among others, are obviously in- spired by her beauty ; and her devotion to him, the abasement of soul, the prostitution of body, she underwent for and with him, is one of the noblest stories life has known. She seems to have dived with him, yet ever trying to raise his soul from the quagmire ; if God is just at all, she shall stand more near to His right hand that the vaunted virgins who …