The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01

striking we are capable Of. should sud
Genly split after such a fashion and
make us feel that we must. by some
art never yet practised, tinker it up,
patch II together. bridge 1t over. In
order to GO on at all.
Happy hen If we have not to de-
scend into the abyss, implements in
hind, and Climb out again to where
he opposite ground will bear US, happy
II some flight of the imagination. some
boldly applied hypothesis. some blest
even II casual refreshment of sense,
carries us across into air once more
h~reathable, for that does mean expert
ence again. and II the new flows into
the vessel that has long contained and
been scented by the old. who will say
that after all we shall not RECOGNIZES
the SAVIOR and the tang?
All of which may perhaps figure too
ohscurely the fact that the social char
acteristics, the elements Of race and
history. the native and acquired val
ues. the whole psychological" mystery
marking the people OF Great Britain.
were SO abruptly thrust into the cr.t.-
cal smelling pot for a citizen Of an
other country. a country up to the
present speaking .ormaily neutral. who
had spent long years Of his life on
English sol, and in English air. that he
at first saw the case in the l!gh, in
which he has just seneral!zed it.
He to-day feels no image too en-
trdNagant. nHn ne the less. for report Of
the drama taat began so sharply, even
If ali subjcctivcly. To enact Itself Oh
the stage ui his anxious spirit; a
drama in which the p~rotagonis; vas
to be simply the question of tn tue
worth Of his forty years Of observation
ana interest. and the denouement To
crown il. through whatever ups and
downs. those quite proper to the stage.
with the happy critical climax. | say
simply" because the decision in sus-
pense mattered TO this fond observer
himself. thrown back upon half his
spiritual history. so much more than
/, could possibly matter to pc son
either not ag.tated at all or agltated
to more ~demcnstrable and more inn
mediate purpose.
Yet complications really and thrill
ingly attended. since where would have
been the suspense, which | tnink
must have positively cultivated in the
Interest Of the rapture of final relief,
II the fortune of my exposed and i'm
pcrilled. and hence SO ideally recover
able o. IN other woris positively
ponderable. stake didn't seem at mo-
ments to sway this way ana that?
What did one. after all. oh what did
one. as the upshot of experience,
think OF the English mird?' j
should perhaps blush to translate my
ngure of the wavering Issue. launched
on scenic ami heroic adventures. into
such 4 pale and lean abstraction ;
1 blush. that Is. so to translate II Tor
others. To my own view IL al once
invested itself with every appearance
and attribute of ..fc; - that degree
in fact. as to make dependent upon II
my personal consciousness, my OWE
life and reality. all my care for what
might happen To anything. | mus
have intimately known thus that Il
the action exhibited, the enlargement
Of my question in Its dangers, viii
the retarded issue. was not, as we say
at the play. to end happily. | shout
feel that I myself had declined int
misery.
The great thing. however. was not
TO let that apprehension interfere;
was no deus eX machina and wou,C
have been ashamed to ls me-; tn,
question was just Of the .mpassloneC
critic. impassioned because suvmount.
ing If a sudden old HABITS of detach'
ment and ease and sprinGinG TO his