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

freshly wiped feldglass much as the
summoned soldier might spring To his
rifle, yet Of the critic i~ncorruptihle
withll and prepared to bow to fate
even If fate should demol.sh his sub
ject. My state became, to the eNclu-
sion Of every other, since one was of
comparable portee, the state of sought
! certitude. "A gertrude difficult but not
impossible, and carrying everything
with 1t II 1t should come.
The situation was. Of course that
what you had supposed or presumed
o thought was not now of the small
est consequences: to sleep at night. to
hold up your head, or, otherwise ex-
J pressed. your heart, to go and come
save as one Of the merely mechanic
and bewildered, you had 10 know. and
To know with that competence which
would rest on your having again and
more thoroughly learned. II was true
that to learn was to study, and that
the pitch Of the public agitation left
no spacious air for that every i'm
precision n had over suffered. all i'm
! p|ai.ences and all submissions, stupe-
! factions and recosnitions alike, stale
. ~ batNANlfS htA' b'itAtl
trorued togcther into view and. claim
ing IN a vague mixed manner some NJ
them Injustice and some generosity,
still, ms .sted hat each represented a
truth and had thereby its point to
make.
Great the responsibility, surely, when
the British intelligence was to be on
exhibition on that scale n under
such a strain. the eyes of the world
having now more attention for II, and
" a moe searching kind, than al any
moment in the whole curse Of the
appeal IL had ever made to them.
They had indeed. these eyes. an i'm
mense call 10 their different. their very
own vast masses Of interest. hut
wouldn't the effect Of that be at the
same time 20 quicken rather than re-
strict for them their awareness Of the
English affirmation. whether as hos
tile or A. helpful. and So to make the
deg go and the mode Of our display OF
genius signify. that Is. count all round
as !, had not in all the ages had 10?
We'll. prod!g.ously to ones help, at
a given moment, and quite simultane-
ously, armed up these two ideas o.
u "Eenius'-for IL would. of course,
he impossible to doubt that We had one
and OF our being approximately in
evidence and IN peril. but which one
meant in peril more particularly of
the uncertainties ~ appreciation.
These last would inevitably and
probably very o strain themselves
clear so far ms to ARE so much meal
10 he 50 much in suspense, this clutch
of the formula. this idea Of "A genius
only waiting To he identified. gave re-
lief to the tension and saw me as by a
sudden jump ever so much further or
the way.
recognized that what | began these
remarks by calling the spirit Of ex-
pericnce had Yet lief, undestroycd its
main acquisition: which was neither
more nor less than that our very
genius was what made us-made our
intelligence. as | have termed II, our
contrihutive. our exhih!table, virtue
our capacity in fine for being on our
best behavior-so consistently Wortl
worrying about. our best behavior or
every face and in every relation. %
course-that vas the impending need
hut again, as | say v~agueness waned
or at least began to. from the momen'
one saw. or AZ any rate reasoned, that
with genius there could not be a light
So wha,. when II came to this ha'
Z been the former, the ancient light
that If the time. too prolonged per
haps. when for the attached and IA,
miliarizcd individual mind TO which