The Washington times., 1918-06-09
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OF human beings Il too vast, too multi
form and too glorious for any definition
which We could understand? Il Il be-
cause in the end. tt viii involve for some.
II not for all, majesty or uniathomed ma
testy' and glory upon unimaginable glory
such as at present far outpass the limits
Of our thought?
The experiences which have recorded
on these pages awake in my heart a hope
that this may be so. Basin Is won't like
many others. to talk IN a light fashion of
Eternity without in the least comprehend
ing what he means by that gigantic term.
II Is not too much TO say that Eternity.
something without beginning and without
end. and involving, It would appear. an
Everlasting changelessness. is a state be-
yond human comprehension.
As matter Of fact, we mortals do not
think in consultations. so to speak, or
in cons, but by the measure Of our own
small earth and Of our few days thereon.
We cannot really conceive Of an exist
enee stretching over one thousand years,
such as that which Orc claimed, and the
Bible accords to an early race Of men.
emitting, Of course. his two thousand Eve
hundred centuries Of sleep. And vet
what is this but one grain in the hour
glass OF Time, one day in the lost record
OF our earth, Of its sisters the planets. and
its father, the sun, to say nothing Of the
uniVerses beyond?
1t is because have come in touch with
a prolonged but perfectly Unite existence
Of the sort that / try to pass on the re-
Elections also connected with WA and the
marvel of her love and its various mani
festations which arise also. But these I
keep to myself. They concern the wonder
of womans heart which Is a microcosm
of the hopes and fears and desires and
despairs of this humanity whereof from
age to age she is the mother.
(Signed)
HUMPHREY ARBUTHNOT.
NOTE
BY
]. R. Buckley, M.RC. S.
TUTITHIN about six months Of the
w date on which he wrote the last
words Of this history Of our Joint
adventure, my dear friend, Humphrey Ar.
buthnOt, died suddenly, as I had foreseep
he probably would do from the results NJ
the injury he had received in the island Of
Orofena
He left me sole executor to his will.
under which he divided his property into
three parts. One-third he beaueathed tn
me; one-third (Which is strictly tied upl
to Basin. and one-third to be devoted. IN.
der my direction. to the advancement Of
science.
His end appears to have been instan-
taneOus, resulting from an effusion of blood
to the brain. When I was summoned
found him lying dead by the writing desk
in his library at Fulcombe Priory.
He had been writing at the desk, for
omit was a piece Of paper on which ap-
pear these words: 81 have seen her. r
There the writing ends, not stating whom
he thought he had seen in the moments
of mental disturbance OF delusion which
preluded his decease.
Save for certain minor corrections. this
manuscript is published, without comment
as the will directs. only adding that it sets
out our joint experiences very faithfully,
though his deductions from them are not al
ways my own.
may say. also, that am contemplating
another visit to the South Sea Islaods
where l wish to make some further in
vestigations. l daresay. however that
these will be barren Of results, as the foun-
tain Of Life-water is buried forever. nor.