New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-19
OUT OF STEP.
"ruE END Is VISION"

Moore WINGED little.
81 love to have you do things for me- De re-
snonded "only you know, If were OUT Vi '"0
question. YOU must still tell the 'ru'h.
II. had not spoken like this since their tax
In Boston, when she had avoweu he'
NJ reforming for his sake lie hau o'"
baer curious to know If she still baseu hei iuV"
Of reformation on that one founda'ioh-i0' ''
sake But he had dreaded to ask.
She looked at him attentively. Al ias' '"e
said: 1855, Tito %
"I can do this or that because 20" n"e ~
have me- and because love you b"' ''
not make myself over. I've beeh "!'"s "
oo,.t do u I've tried for two ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I hate Dr. Jennings, and because NV ,..t
mt know now it's true that we oon .
Lnow II lust as well as If l had
$50, ..oors 20 nrove il. Even love like mine
-, aoosr.t change me. You know what
chonorbauer saws of the 'unchangeablencss Oh
..not. tendencies in the individual, ana 'he
,n,oriab,,itv of the primitive dispositioh' NJ
.h,rLs only appearances are reiineu' anu
that there Is no change below the surface
..put what business have you with Schope"-
bauer?" asked Moore with some neat WHY
do Won read such depressing stun as ne "ii'e'.
W ,,,,cnt nc we'll give up life and all hope
of everything if you believe what ne says
.put If what he says is true inquired
co,on,a mournfully, what shall we 90 'he"'
Won love truth 50 well, Randolph that !o'
don't want to choose TO try 10 peheVe d '""'e
because it's pleasant. do you? might 10 'la .,,
I think l should, for turn 10 "n"'e'e' WIN
make me happy. But you!
"you see when was in Boston used 10 90
- ,,a public Library sometimes when you were
away. When you have thing III h'ii,u ~.
,s odd how YOU stumble upon the SUBJECT
a,.orvrhere almost So / happened 10 reau
occasionally what other people had 'housn'
about what was thinking so much. u'uii .
get much encouragement. Even Darwin 'a"
that he was inclined to believe that educa,io'i
and environment produce only small ehec.
on the mind of any one. and that most Vi
our qualities are innate-and Francis Cation
thinks so too , ,.,
whether 1T would be better to laugh al her
or 10 treat the conversation seriously. he de-
c,ded that It would be frivolous to do the former
"D;d Won read anything the other side!
he asked .,
"Oh yes: I've read lot on the other side
was the reply. "And you know that's the way
was brought up-to think that we can make
ourselves over-or rather that God, CHRIST can
make rs over if we will allow it. Were you
brought up so, Randolph!
Eyes"
81 suppose my mother believes that; know
she does"
sa,ome spoke with deep solemnty. She held
ber husbands hand, but she was not looking at
him: she was gazing down the slope of the
eo,a INTO the binding sunshine that was MAX
inc the air glimmer with heat. and bringing out
tho narfume of the wild, odorous shrubs all
about them.
"Yes" Salome went on: "my mother thinks
that we can make Of ourselves, in a degree
what we will. Perhaps my mother couid 90
that But have about made up my i''ihu
that we are after all. more or less the slaves vi
inherited tendencies.
Moore's face darkened with the pain her
words gave him. She turned toward MN III
time 70 see that expression. She put her head
on his shoulder
Don't look So" she whispered
"But thought you had some OF the Chris'ia"
he,;efs" he said; 1.-The Christian beliefs are
surely high and noble ones. IL heeos iio "'e"'
ment to show that >,
az need to he a real truly little Christian
she said smiling THAT is was skin-deep
one. but I didn't know then that was so shall
low and that was in fact pagan Are you
sorrv that am a pagan, Randolph? But you
needn't worry. and wouldn't tell mother that
I've been talking so silly. I've been just as
truthful all these months as If cared for the
truth But it is you care for"
Moore tried not to show the depression he
felt. All that day and the next 1t seemed TO
him that he could think Of nothing save the sub
iect of this conversation in which he had borne
DO slight part.
On the third day the two We're sitting again
under the same tree They had brought some
hooks to read. but after little Moore shut his
I'd ha q
hand on the open page Of Salome's book.
II know it's stupid to read" she said. IT'S
q thousand times better to just sit and take in
this day.
Moore replied that he had a great deal to say.
and he proceeded forthwith to say it, He be-
gan by protesting with all the warmth of an
actually painful conviction that human be-
ing need never be a slave to anything. that the
mind and the will were to be used to cultivate
this tendency and to suppress that tendency
It was nothing less than criminal for man
TO decide that, because he happened to be born
with an inclination to stOop. he should not try
TO throw back his shoulders and stand erect
No doubt 1t was harder for him to stand erect
than for some one else who had a good back.
bone to begin with. 1t was just 80 with the
moral nature.
The Young man went on hurriedly, but with
some force ana ciearhess' 10 sd'e THOSE at
ruments which have been the foundation Of sc
much right living since the world began. III
had never talked so openly and. forcefully T.
salcme since he had known her. but at tn
time ne was speaking. and Notwithstanding he
denendent attitude and her absorbed listen
ing. he knew that his words like waite
washing over stone.
suddenly he stopped in the middle OF sen
tence. He felt as IL cold hand had been lai'
upon him. or as II some voice had Whispered
the word '.Impossble" In his ear.
sa,orne raised her head from his shoulder
vbere she had kept It closely al the time b
had been speaking.