Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28

mortal fame for herself at the expense Of
And IL his energies, his talents. his use
fulness. were held OF no account at least
he could look back upon a past when he
would have seemed to be one of the few
supreme favortes of the forces that shaped
man life and destiny. Until he had started
from kronstadt four years before on a
voyage, that had Inundated his proud
spirit more than once, and undermined as
splendid physique ever was granted TO
even Russian, he had rolled the world I'M
der his foot. With an appearance and per
sonal magnetism. gifts of mind and man
ner and character that would have com
msnded attention amidst the general fac
cldity OF his race and conquered life With -
out the great social advantages he in
herited. he had enjoyed power and pleasure
TO degree that would have spoiled a
cearser nature long since True the lime
mad come when he had cared little for any
of his endowments save as means 10
great ends, when all his energies had con.
centrated In the determination to live a
NE OF the highest possible usefulness
without which mans span was but exist
ence-his ambitions cohered and been driven
steadily toward a permanent niche I'm his
Tory; then paled and dissolved for an hour
IN the glorious vision Of human happiness
ana 'hnally as he might realize mans
lhslenihcance among the blind forces OF
nat s re- ne could accept 1t philosophically
ana die with his soul uncorroded by nissan
hropy, that final and uncompromisins ad-
mission OF failure. The misanthrope was
the supre me failure of life because he had
not the intelligence to realize or could nor
reconcile himself to- the incomplete CON
iltion OF human nature. Man was made up
OF little qualities and aspirations for great
ones. MAJ, Many Welded In the struggle and
sank into impotent discomfort among the
small material things OF life instead OF
upllftlng themselves with the picture OF the
inevitable future when development had
run lts course, and indulgently pityins the
children OF his own period who so often
made life hateful with their greed selfish
ness, snobbery-most potent obstacle TO
human ehdeavor-and Injustice The he'd
judgment OF the mass, How MANY careers
II had baked II not ruined. with its poor
laeals, Its mean heroes Its instructive avoid
ance OF superior qualities foreign to itself.
IT'S contemplate desire to be identified with
fashion. Ii was this low standard OF the
crowd that induced misanthropy I'm many
otherwise brave spirits who lacked the IN
sight to discern the divine spark under
meath, the persistence. sure OF reward. TO
fight their way to this spark and reveal IL
to the gaze of astonlshed and nattered
humanity Rezanov's very arrogance had
led MIN TO regard the mass of mankind as
but one degree removed from the nursery;
his good nature and philosophical spirit
10 treat them with Indulgence that
kept sournesS out of his cyniciSm and in
evitably recurring WEAKNESS and disguest
his ardent imagination had consoled itself
with the vision OF future when man
should live in world made reasonable by
the triumph OF ideals that now lurked
half ashamed In the high spaces OF the
human mind.
He looked back in wonder at the moment
of wild regret and protest-the bitterer I'm
its silence-when they had told him he
must die; when in the last rally Of the
vital forces he had believed his will was
still Arong enough to command his ray
aged Indy to propel his brain. stll teeming
with a vast and complicated future. his
heart, still warm and insistent with the
image it cherished on to the ultmates OF
ambition and love. How brief it had been.
that last cry Of mortality. with its aC-
compartment of furious wonder at his
unseemly and senseess cutting of. In The
adjustment and reimbursement Of political
and natural forces the world ambled on
philosophically, fulfilling its inevitable dss-
tiny. If he had not been beyond humor
he would have smiled at the idea that in
the face of all eternity il !lattered what
nation on one little planet eventually pos
sessed a fragment called California. To
him that fair land empty and pur-
poseless save for one figure. and even Of
her he thought with the terrible calm of
dissolution. During these last months Of
illness and isolation he had been less Lonely
than at any time of his life, save during
those few weeks in California. for he had
lived with her necessarily in spirit and Ia
that subtle imaginative communion had
pressed close to profound and complex
soul, revealed before only in flashes 10 L
vision astray in the confusion Of tn" senses.
He had felt that her response TO his passion
was far more vital and enduring than dw'lt
in the capacity of most women; he had an
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