Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-18
A NEW ADAM.
New York Times.

valley OF the SChaughtincy between the
twin peaks OF the Rilderbergs. Tha'
thrifty man, wise in his generation, had
believed that thereby would pass to the
ooundless fields of the west the traffic
from the river and the sea. But wisdom
hath its own mortality; for the post road
took more northerly direction, and the
railway followed its example, and the
great house grew into the old house
amid solitude which the progress OF
CIVILIZATION only deepened.
IL was on account of its very seclu-
sion that Grafton chose to live there on
ms return from the German university.
Inc manor OF itself was so extensive us
70 afford isolation, and beyond, for
many mile, stretched q wilderness of
Tree and crag, with here and there the
scaht clearing OF charcoal burners, mere
existing folk, whose ambition was food
ana whose pleasure was sleep.
Grafton dwelt there alone. The care
takers We're settled i'll the lodge by the
gate ana the old woman cooked and
swept and the old man attended Ia
water and fire and dug and bedded the
vegetable garden. And when they were
NOT SO busleu they We're unseen. In the
secGho'stoly front room Grafton slept;
in . a...U Al
u 'he Waltlhs room 70 the lett OF the
u ,,.I.;a az nc ave me pahquet hall,
an an" 1oseiUu tuo rear nun OF tue hrst
49, "as shutAetcI ana barred, Tor
trei' Iic i'"H cSt"oiishcd MS Iapora'
W
,,a,,tL it ~ nau ioh9 passed ms hrst
lo'll' !" i,"ol' II nov Ill years. lie haI
,, INC hAea pefsQhlhcation OF
ut,Hsn'. laii, spare ana melancholy,
nivn uon nt'sI men, ne looked the
1tsi.ittu VINO supsls'eao on hermlt's fare
:, ~ t ,Sn an. WATER save when lie raised
a ~" "'''lN tycs, anu thGh there was Il
,'.s't tteSHtntht WIN Nitality ana power.
,a, a ''Sn t"tl'SAt houi ne walked through
. Ky "" ~ '"sliohc" Sardeh' Tor the rest
~ ~ Ga'tIs ahu sleeping, he was
e"Eiosseu win ms purpose.
'l"ll'h st'lutes III Germany had
SDeii ouS"it "hd ihystlc. lie had fol-
o I've. thc llhes o. inc aichemists, from
WON! comes knowledge, however
itulI"ipuS llieir aspirations may seem,
.tHu' attcr "Ii, Is IL nOt toolhardy ever to
aSsc'' tiic illposslpiilty wnen the fairy
80 - .he age are the sober facts OF
'Ho'Hcl
utaitoi' sought not to transmutc the
oaseI iletaiS' gold Was but the means to
"h cho win MN, ana his patrmony
"as ample, nc had Investigated him
Ssi IA particular and life in general.
ile lal considered the might and the
itllltatioh OF existence. lie believed
that knowledge was dependent on
| years ana that man would be demi-
gou' possessing the secret of the bud
inc ofeeIe, ana the light, if only he
coulo DISCARD the enthrallment of death.
ltc also believed that the conscious.
ness OF TINS subjngation was instructive
from birth, That through it develop.
meht was stunted and aspiration Stitiel:
ana That, though the mind might
ignore, every fibre Of the body cried out
loualy the unanswemble query: "What
aNalls II - struggle, since SO soon we
must die X Gould death he conquered?
lhat, then, was his problem. He sought
lis solution, not 30 much for his own
| preservatlon-though that must be a
COnsequence-as from pride and pity
ior ms race. lie yearned to be another
Prumetheus and rekindle the fires that
had dwlndled into ash, to be spiritual
Cadmus, and discover and teach the
alphabet of immortality.
He had left Germany because he lad
| exhausted its learning. The dav for nv.
pertinent had come, and he realized that
in an atmosphere 50 exhausted and m.
der an existence SO artificial he could
not hope for favorable results. No. he
who would learn Of nature must lonk
into her face; he who would goin her
secrets must seek them in her breas,
So he had returned 10 the homo ~ ~
race, and there fonnd that the ancas t',r
who had sought 10 anticinate ciyiiigo
| tim, I,od ,,,o,,n.rl . i'i.a