Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-27
CHAPTER XIX.


4 BOUT II Karenin had his midday
meal. and afterward he slept
among his artificial furs and
pillows for two hours. Then
he awOke. and some tea was brought
to him, and he attended to Il small Diff
6culty In connection with the Mora Wan
schools in the Labrador country and
in Greenland that Gardener knew
would interest him. He remained
alone for little while after that. and
then the two women came to him
again. Afterward Edwards and Kahn
Joined the group. and the talk fell
upon love and the place of women in
the renascent world. The cloud banks
OF India lay under u quivering haze.
Dnd the blaze of the sun fell full upon
the eastward precipices. Ever and
again as they talked some vast splinter
of rock would crack and come away
from these or wild rush OF snow and
ice and stone pour down in thunder.
hang like a wet thread into the CULTS
below and cease.
For time Karenin said very little,
and Kahn. the popular poet. talked of
passionate love. He said that passion
ate personal love had been the abiding
desire Of humanity since ever humani-
ty had begun. and now only was it be-
coming a possible experience. 1t had
been dream that generation after
generation had pursued, that always
hor7 lr>ct -
ment. To most Of those who had
sought it obstinately it had brought
tragedy. Now. lifted above sordid dis
tresses. men and women might hope
for realized and triumphant love. This
age was the dawn Of love.
Karenin remained downcast and
thoughtful while Kahn said these
things. Against that continued silence
kahn's voice presently seemed to beat
and fall. He had begun by addressing
Karenin. but presently be was includ-
ing Edith Hayden and Rachel Borken
in bis appeal Rachel listened silent
ly; Edith watched karenin and very
deliberately avoided Kahn's eyes.
II know" said Kapenin at last, that
many people are saying this sort of
thing. l know that there is vast re-
lease Of lovemaking in the world. This
great wave Of decoration and elabora-
ton that has gone about the world,
this ett1OreScence. has, of course. laid
hold Of that. know that when you
say that the world is set free you in
terpret that to mean that the world is
set free for lovemaking. Down there
under the clouds the lovers foregather.
l know your songs. Kahn. your half
mystical songs in which you represent
this old. hard world dissolving into q
luminous haze of love. Furthermore, I
don't think you are right or true in
that. You are young. imaginative
man, and you see life-ardently-w
the eyes of youth. But the power that
has brought man into these high places
under this blue yelled blackness OF the
sky and which beckOns us on toward
the immense and awful future Of our
race. is ripper and deeper and greater
than any such emotions.
'All through my iife-it has len
necessary part Of my work. have had
to think of this great release Of love
and the riddles that perfect freedom
and almost limitless power will put to
the soul Of our race. can see now
all over the world beautiful ecstasy
of waste. Let us sing and rejoice and
be lovely and wonderful!' The orgy is
only beginning. Kahn. 1t was inevita-
BILE. But it is not the end Of mankind.
think what we are. 1t is but a
yesterday in the endlessness Of time
that life was dreaming thing, dream
ing so deeply that it forgot itself as it
dreamed, its lives, it's individual in
stincts. it's moments were born and
wondered and played and hungered
and grew weary and died. lncalcula-
BILE SUGGESTIONS Of visions. visions Of
sunlit jungle. river wilderness. wild
forests, eager desire. beating hearts,
soaring wings and creeping terror
famed holly. and then were as though
they had never been. Life was an I'M
easiness across which lights played and
vanished. And then we came. man
came, and opened eyes that were a
question and hands that were de-
mand and began a mind and memory
that dies not when men die. but lives
and increases forever. an overmind. a
dominating will, a question and an as
piration that reaches to the stars.
Hunger and fear and this that you
make so much Of. this sex, are but the
elementals of life out Of which we
have arisen. All these elementals.
grant you. have to be provided for.
deaf with, satisfied, but all these
things have to be left behind"
But love-" said Kahn.
Karenin shook his head you can.
not stay at the roots and climb the
tree" he said.
mo-" he said after a pause. this
love story is just part Of growing up
and we grow out of it. So far Iitera
ture and art and sentiment and all oul
emotional forms have been almost al
together adolescent; plays and stories
delights and hopes. they have all turn
ed on that marvellous discovery of the
love interest, but life lengthens out
now, and the mind Of adult humanity
detaches itself. Poets. who used to die
at thirty. live now to eighty-tive. You
too, Kahn. There are endless years
vet for you-and all full Of learning
We carry an excessive burthen of SCI
traditi n at present, and we have tt
free ourselves from it. We do free
ourselves from it. We have learnt il
a thousand different ways to hold bacl