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Page 128 of 1291929 · PDF PAGE 255
…give place to mountain sprightliness, but also the view tends to disappear altogether. One enters the region of almost eternal mist. The day is warm; and yet one is chilled to the bone. One is glad to come out on to an exposed ridge at Ghum and find the train begins to go down hill. It was the sign of the nearness of Darjeeling. I got off the train. With unfeigned satisfaction, I observed immediately that the current legends about the amazing powers of the coolies were true. The principal item of my baggage was a full-sized wardrobe trunk, but …
1929 · PDF PAGE 554
…to neglect the work prescribed for the Grade which he actually possessed. I pointed this out, and after some show of sulks, he agreed. A day or so later, in discussing some point of magical theory, I happened to say, "I want you to understand very thoroughly what this implies." He retorted violently, "I'm not an 8° = 3ř! To understand is not a part of the work of my Grade!" To that he stuck. It was useless to argue that the understanding of an 8° = 3ř has a technical definition, and that a child of two years old must understand the alphabet, if…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…ide. But this man, instead of going down to the valley, actually climbed the mountain, spent a night on the ridge and went down the next day to Zermatt. The dangers of mountaineering are ridiculously exaggerated. I have never known of any accident which was not due to ignorance or folly. Eckenstein, the greatest climber of his age, told me the same thing. Jones obtained the reputation of being the most brilliant rock climber of his time by persistent self- advertisement. He was never a first-rate climber, because he was never a safe climber. If…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…ght. In the course of convalescence, over four thousand pieces of gravel and the like were removed from my face; and it was on Christmas Day that I was first allowed to use my eyes for a few minutes. The explosion had been devastating. The windows were smashed for a long way round; and the bottles in the chemist's shop on the railway bridge --- a quarter of a mile and more away --- rattled, though the passage of trains had no such effect. Strangely enough, I was the only person injured. Throughout I enjoyed the episode; I was the hero, I had ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 355
…ious troubles. The idea sounds a good one, but apart from availing myself of my opportunities for double entendre ("I was told the other day that he held a lot of land in London and has more tenants than the Duke of Westminister!"), I 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 lyr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
… communion with "Jesus" was constantly present to my mind. I do not remember any steps in the volte-face. I asked one of the masters one day how it was that Jesus was three days and three nights in the grave, although crucified on Friday and risen again on Sunday morning. He could not explain and said that it had never been explained. So I formulated the ambition to become a shining light in Christianity by doing this thing that had never yet been done. This idea, by the way, is very characteristic. I am totally unable to take any interest in d…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…breathe, I diminish the stock of oxygen available on the planet. In those far distant ages when Earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living 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 …
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…tirring ‘rhythm. ° HIS swe linger with delight over the splendid line— “The murmurous song of the morning star, aflame o'er the birth of day.” ... . Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm... viyid_and pictorial . . . a painter's vision as well as a poet's ears .”.'a fine simile in “Osiris is all hig own.”—-Co-Mason “.. «delirious mu the majority of them (the poems) trouble the reader by giving the im- pression’ that a deep meaning lies behind the embroidered veil of words to which he is unable to penetrates Others again seem to stiggest…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…breathe, I diminish the stock of oxygen available on the planet. In those far distant ages when Earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…all the inherent vices of my training had a perfectly free field for their development. Before, if I wanted to give a dinner party every day of the week, I could do it, but if I wanted a little cash my only alternative to the card table was the pawnshop, till I came of age. After that, it was simply a question of writing a cheque, which gave me no idea of the nature of the transaction involved. I doubt whether any one in history was ever furnished with such a completely rotten preparation for the management of practical affairs. My residence at…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…ill-minded Gloucester. Yet Shakespeare is so appreciative of the virtue of compassion (for Shakespeare was, as I shall hope to prove one day, a Buddhist) that Corn- wall, the somewhat cruel instrument of eternal Justice, is killed by his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would note that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author's design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we …
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…wly 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 the unhappy theists of the recent Zzmes contro- versy, does not hesitate to…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…ill-minded Gloucester. Yet Shakespeare is so appreciative of the virtue of compassion (for Shakespeare was, as I shall hope to prove one day, a Buddhist) that Corn- wall, the somew hat cruel instrument of eternal Justice, is killed by his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would not that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author’s design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we …
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…stirring rhythm. “«,.”, we linger with delight over the splendid line— ‘<The murmurous song of the moming star, aflame o'er the birth of day.” Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter’s s well as a poet’s ear a fine simile in ‘ Osiris’ is all his own.”—Co-Mason. a delitious music the majority of them (the poems) trouble the reader by giving the impression thata deep meaning lies behind the embroidered veil of words to which he is unable to pene- trate; others again seem to suggest events of too in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
…stirring rhythm. “«,.”, we linger with delight over the splendid line— ‘<The murmurous song of the moming star, aflame o'er the birth of day.” Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter’s s well as a poet’s ear a fine simile in ‘ Osiris’ is all his own.”—Co-Mason. a delitious music the majority of them (the poems) trouble the reader by giving the impression thata deep meaning lies behind the embroidered veil of words to which he is unable to pene- trate; others again seem to suggest events of too in…
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
…irring rhythm. “*. . . we linger with delight over the splendid line— Se The murmurous song ofthe morning star, aflame o'er the birth of day, “«, . . Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter's vision as well as a poet’s ear . . . a fine simile in ‘Osiris’ is all his own.”—Co-Mason. “.. . a delirious music. . . the majority of them (the poems) trouble the reader by giving the impression that a deep meaning lies behind the embroidered veil of words to which he is unable to pene- trate; others again …
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
…irring rhythm. “*. . . we linger with delight over the splendid line— Se The murmurous song ofthe morning star, aflame o'er the birth of day, “«, . . Melodious and plaintive with a haunting rhythm . . . vivid and pictorial . . . a painter's vision as well as a poet’s ear . . . a fine simile in ‘Osiris’ is all his own.”—Co-Mason. “.. . a delirious music. . . the majority of them (the poems) trouble the reader by giving the impression that a deep meaning lies behind the embroidered veil of words to which he is unable to pene- trate; others again …
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…wly 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 the unhappy theists of the recent Times contro- versy, does not hesitate to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 198
…ttaining themis the cancer of existence. Indeed, I support the etymology as against the futile bigotry of certain senile Buddhists of to-day. And, since it is the current interpretation of Buddhistic thought that I attack, I but show myself the better Buddhist in the act.—A. C. § A catch word for the stomach, from J. M. Barrie's play ‘‘ Little Mary.” THE FIRST PRECEPT. This forbids the taking of life in any form.* What we have to note is the impossi- bility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either Buddha was a fool, or his com- m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
…e lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecstatic than anything that has come down to us from the Ages of faith. We are all, as Sainte-Beuve said, ‘children of a sensual literature,” and perhaps for that reason we should expect from our singers fervent religious h…