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Page 78 of 791929 · PDF PAGE 103
…eal, not to give away illicit stills that I might happen to stumble across in my rambles. I needed no bribe. I am a free trader in every sense of the word. I have no sympathy with any regulations which interfere with the natural activities of human beings. I believe that they aggravate whatever trouble they are intended to prevent; and they create the greatest plague of humanity, officialdom, and encourage underhand conduct on both sides, furtiveness and espionage. Any law which tends to destroy manly qualities is a bad law, however necessary i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…erious accidents before the final smash. But his reputation is founded principally on climbs which he did not make at all, in the proper sense of the word. He used to go out with a couple of photographers and have himself lowered up and down a climb repeatedly until he had learnt its peculiarities, and then make the "first ascent" before a crowd of admirers. Now the essential difficulty of negotiating a pitch of any length is that one has to waste any amount of time and strength while one is finding out where the holds are. There is no credit a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 208
…ion- aries. Iam sufficiently well known as a bitter opponent of ‘‘ Theosophy ” to risk nothing in making these remarks. I trust that the sense of public duty which inspires these strictures will not be taken as incompatible with the gratitude I owe to him for his exceedingly sympathetic and dispas- sionate review of my “ Soul of Osiris.” I would counsel him, however, to leave alone the Brixton Chapel, and to ‘‘ work up from his appreciation of the ‘Soul of Osiris’ to that loftier and wider work of the human imagina- nation, the appreciation of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…al. Picturesque metaphor is not always appreciated.) I cannot make the public understand that to treat a man as an enemy in the ordinary sense of the word, to damage him in every possible way, and otherwise to disintegrate him, is simply to cut off one's nose to spite one's face. There is nothing in the universe which is not indissolubly one with every other thing; and the greatest man is he who makes no difference between any one thing and any other thing. He becomes the "chief of all" as stated in The Book of the Law. {829} 85 We may now retu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… exception was that of the greatest height attained by man. This was claimed by Matthias Zurbriggen, who was not a guide in the ordinary sense of the word, but a convict who had learnt all his climbing from Eckenstein at the request of the ne'er-do-weel's family, who didn't know what to do with him and probably hoped that he would kill himself on the mountains. The Alpine Club even tried to fake records. One party made a great fuss over and ascent of the Dent Blanche. It was proved later that they had not been on the mountain at all and that on…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
… let us prove what we have to prove in the plainest way. I would premise in the first place that to commit adultery in the Divorce Court sense is not here in question. It assumes too much proprietary right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—-the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily suppose that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandoned his home; true, but Nature has to be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…h the idiotic vanity of mediocrities. I took the Climbers' Record to be a serious complication and never wrote in it without the fullest sense of responsibility. So when I found a solemn Te Deum being chanted on account of the fifth ascent of the Pillar Rock by a "lady", I took my dog to the top and recorded, "First ascent by a St. Bernard bitch." When Jones, after the usual practice, had climbed Kern Knotts Crack, and three public school masters, who ought to have known better, said they had seen him do it, and it was a marvellous exhibition o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…res, 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 of madness and depravity, the true heart of genius burns. No more terrible period than this is to be found in literature; so many great minds, of which hardly one comes to fruition ; such seeds of genius, such a harvest of—whirlwind! Even a barren waste of sea is less saddening than one strewn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
…ore oil in the lamp, and that the best thing we can do is to look for a new one. We are afraid to lose whatever we have. We have not the sense to see that whatever it may be, it is bound to go sooner or later, that when it does its place will be filled by something just as good, and nothing is more stupid than to try to set back the sun upon the dial of Ahaz. As soon as we learn that everything is only half, that it implies its opposite, we can let ourselves go with a light heart, finding just as much fun in the red leaves of autumn as in the g…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
… us prove w hat w e have to prove in the plainest way. I would premise in the first place that to commit adultery in the D ivorce C ourt sense is not here in question. It assumes too much proprietary right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily assume that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandoned his home ; true, but Nature has to be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…s or tobacco, or spending it on even worse abominations such as theatres and women. (I was encouraged to keep a dog!) I had therefore no sense of responsibility in the matter of money. It {104} never occurred to me that it was possible to make it, and I was thus trained to be dependent to the point of mendicancy. The effect was, of course, disastrous. When I got to Cambridge I still had everything paid for me and in addition I found myself with unlimited credit which I could keep secret. When I came into my fortune a year later, I was utterly u…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…ares 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 cloak of madness and depravity, the true heart of genius burns. No more terrible period than this is to be found in literature ; so many great minds, of which hardly one comes to fruition ; such seed of genius, such a harvest of—whirlwind ! Even a barren waste of sea is less saddening than one stre…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…ssion- aries. I am sufficiently well known as a bitter opponent of “Theosophy” to risk nothing in making these remarks. I trust that the sense of public duty which inspires these strictures w ill not be taken as incompatible w ith the gratitude I ow e to him for his exceedingly sympathetic and dispassionate review of my “Soul of Osiris.” I would counsel him, however, to leave alone the Brixton Chapel, and to “work up from his appreciation of the ‘Soul of Osiris’ to that loftier and wider work of the human imagina-tion, the appreciation of the S…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…of the Mental Outlook. Best Books for Further Reading. “ Unusually bright and stimulating discourses.”"— The Scotsman. “A book of common sense and reason, and its logic is unassailable in almost every chapter." —Pad/ Mail Gazette. SELF-CONTROL, AND HOW TO SECURE IT (L’Education de Soi-méme). By Dr Pavr Dusors, Professor of Neuropathology in the University of Berne; Author of “The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders,” “The Influence of the Mind on the Body,” etc. Authorised Translation. By Harry Hurcreson Boy. 337 pp. Price 4s. 6d. net. “Eigh…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…of the Mental Outlook. Best Books for Further Reading. “ Unusually bright and stimulating discourses.”"— The Scotsman. “A book of common sense and reason, and its logic is unassailable in almost every chapter." —Pad/ Mail Gazette. SELF-CONTROL, AND HOW TO SECURE IT (L’Education de Soi-méme). By Dr Pavr Dusors, Professor of Neuropathology in the University of Berne; Author of “The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders,” “The Influence of the Mind on the Body,” etc. Authorised Translation. By Harry Hurcreson Boy. 337 pp. Price 4s. 6d. net. “Eigh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…a poem which authorises the Archbishop of Canterbury to convey Dr. Clitford’s pet trowels, and makes possible the Gilbertian (in the old sense of pertaining to W. S. Gilbert) position of the Free Kirk to-day, is a poem which had better be burnt, as the most sensible man of his time proposed to do with Homer, or at least left to the collector, as I believe is the case with the pub- lications of the late Isidore Liseux. Immoral is indeed no word for it. It is as criminal as the riddle in ‘‘ Pericles.” That Our Pantosympatheticist is himself an Ag…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
… Let me take an example; the most impossible being the best for our purpose. The Spiritualists, let us suppose, go mad and begin to talk sense. (I can only imagine that such would be the result.) All their ‘‘ facts” are proved. We prove a world of spirits, the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, etc. But, with all that, we are not really one step advanced into the heart of the inquiry which lies at the heart of philosophy, ‘‘ What zs anything ?”’ I see a cat. Dr. Johnson says it is a cat. Berkeley says it is a group of sensations. Ca…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…Let me take and example; the most impossible being the best for our purpose. The Spiritualists, let us suppose, go mad and begin to talk sense. (I can only imagine that such would be the result. ) All their “facts” are proved. We prove a world of spirits, the existence of G od, the immortality of the soul, etc. But, with all that, we are not really one step advanced into the heart of the inquiry which lies at the heart of philosophy, “What is anything?” I see a cat. Dr. Johnson says it is a cat. Berkeley says it is a group of sensations. Cankar…
1906 · PDF PAGE 198
…is ex- torted by the subtle vigour of Buddhist reason- ing; I am yet forced to admit that, this being so, the Five Preceptst are mere nonsense. If the Buddha spoke scientifically, not popularly, not rhetorically, then his precepts are not his. We must reject them or we must interpret them. We must inquire: Are they meant to be obeyed? Or—and this is my theory—are they sarcastic and biting criticisms on exist- ence, illustrations of the First Noble Truth; reasons, as it were, for the apotheosis of an- nihilation? I shall show that this is so. Le…
1906 · PDF PAGE 193
…e Fer,” + This may be, but I think should not be, used as an argument to prove the poet an illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth. plainest sense we are likely to hear for the rest of our lives; then, with the prettiest humour in the world takes the cue of his father’s ab- surdity, and actually plays it on his enemy. ISdgar's leg is not so easily pulled—(‘‘ How long have you been a sectary astronomical ?”"' ll. 169, 170)—and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. In Scene iii. we find lear’s senile dementia taking the peculia…