The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
We'll Known Author Recently Become a British Subject
Analyses the Psychology Of His Adopted Country in
the Great Conflict describes Nations Awaken.
ing After First Shock of Strife

result of Acquaintance hadn't been a
peculiar faith.
The answer to all of which. I saw,
would meanwhile he no answer IL it
didn't properly provide for that truth
Of the genius-the genius hat had
somehow kept acting and impress sing
just in proportion as so few pains
were taken about II. What was hap
pening, accordingly. that the critic
could wonder about the "display''-by
which he meant about the absence Of
it-and yet not wonder in the least
about the apparently all so suffering
force? The puzzle might have lasted
goodness knows how long hadn't IL
been for that consciousness Of the good
nature, incorrigib.lity and all. felt as
fundamental from far back. which one
had been looking t. right and left Of,
and to top and bottom Of. without
discovering that in the very centre Of
II sat ones sublime solution.
To grasp even in so absurdly de-
layed a manner the perception that
there was ones golden key made the
whole gertrude come on with a rush.
1t was incredible and impr ssible that
a peop.e should he so incorrig.ble UNI
less they were stronR-no people with
out a great margin could for any Pc
Rod at all afford to be. and with that
contraction everything was clear. 1;
didn't matter II they were strong be-
cause good natured, or good natured
because strong; the point was to that
extraordinary tune in what they could
afford.
This afford. ng became then. to ones
infinite creation. the drama. the pic
ture, and. TO repeat the term that was
the actual essence of the case. the en-
h!hition of their life. They wera at
their ease; there IL was. for their
favorite amusement Of Putting the
cart before the horse and the idea out
of sisht-that is, behind, miles behind.
everything else. They kept the idea
IN that situltion. where pne would
find it. with ones mistrust fairly un-
learnt. IL one walked far enough round
outs!.c towel. | won't say its prison.
hut. by way of n better image. its Sc
cret garden. Here II grew with "A
stoutness that spoke doubtless - So
much Of cultivation as of the happy
patches OF parent earth. and here II
could be gathered. after the fashion Of
the savory seasoning herb. as re-
quired."
II such then was the case for the
background by what art did the fore
ground not on.y held together hut
form To- the extent | have noted the
place Of Reorganization the most at
! tiching. not to say even the most
~cdify.ng. ne could have desired? BY
the art not anyw else in the world
:, suhtly practised assuredly-that Of
20 mixing up character, personal or.
as who should say. moral, yes. posi-
lively. the dear old moral. the instinct
y ive'y individual. with every ether sign
of understanding and every other re-
ward III intercourse. in fact, with every
other condition ~ II. What Ii came
to in the last fine %anslys thus seemed
to- he that whersas in association VITA
other people y Il for the most part
knew by their Conversahility what YOU
had got hold ~. or whether this were
at a given moment their reflective ~
their active, their cerebral or their
practical part, SO In the assoc alton
= had happened m 81 n eniot there was
no such Clorr and perhaps ! Should
{ say convenient distinction, convenient
/. in especial + + the demonstration oi
= ones grounds. This might certainly
p represent in regard TO the others 'ha'
=, ConverSahility " rkcd better. hut couit
IL represent that ASSOCIATION did?
To put this last question. ! quickly
: recognized, was To- find il answered
! posed OF really by the same stroke