Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
BY IDA GILBERT MYERS.

adayS, that tnlS NERVOUSNESS
has been going on for many
Il millions of years. The most
of us have been brought up on
the, notion of few thousand at most.
No matter. It Is as easy to imagine
one of these as the other.
And these wise ones, looking back
ward along this enormous stretch of
time and then forward into an even
more .illimitable future, pause for an
instant beside us to remark that the
man of the hour-you and me and the
rests, in effect, at the stage OF the
baby in the cradle. Pondering his toes.
he makes tentative overtures toward
them. But, easily he abandons the en-
terprise in favor of a warm bottle.
Mankind is still-learning says-fid-
ding with its toes, so to speak, still
grabbing for its warm milk bottle.
Mankind has almost nothing, yet of
either knowledge or capacity for even
an attempt toward probing the infinite
mystery of the seemingly negligible
atom himself.
And so man, almost Of necessity it
appears, goes on with his eating and
drinking and sleeping, with working
and living and dying. A short story
easily forgotten, were 1t not for its
countless daily repetitions, so remind
full. so abhorrent.
At rare now and then, there comes
this one or that one who takes himself
in complete rebellion. He storms at
the gate of heaven, he batters at the
door of ,life-importuning demanding
to know who he is, and what, and why.
What the purpose and plan, for him,
of that hidden future, of this obScured
present, of that dim past. Merely
beating and bruising and battering
himself to death, nothing more. And
so the man moves on and out. Some
times he leaves a record. He calls it
a record, of the fruitless adventure Of
himself-the man adventure. Books,
whole libraries of books in thousands,
are packed with the great quest-with
theories and guesses and surmises about
it. Books of religion, of many religions,
have been sent out in exploitation OF
this inexplicable. Books of philosophy,
of many PHILOSOPHERS, also. A never
ending movie" of blended experience
and Incompetence contributes to the
uncomfortable curiosity of the human
about himself-about what he Is, and
has been, and is to be.
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IN, THE EVENING OF MY
THOUGHT. BY George Glenn
enceau. Translated by Charles
Miner Thompson and John Heard,
ton Miff1in Co.
THAT writer deliver himself, what
l. ever the character of the theme
this is coming to be sign manual and
great seal of that writer's valid claim to
consideration.
George Clemenceau, out of long life
of useful and passionate political serv-
ice came to be called "the Tiger" A
name in general use. this one as rule
indicated appreciation and affection.
Sometimes 1t had a different signtfl-
canoe. Always, however, it connoted
courage and astuteness. Swift audacity
of action, shrewd appraisal OF situation
and agencies, blunt disclosure and fero-
cious attack. The record OF Clemen-
ceau's political service Is familiar one.
The story of his life, so recently ended.
Is widely known. A celebrated man of
influence and power In his own country
strong in international questions ana
conferences as we'll.
I'm the Evening of My Thought" Is
nothing of any oftheSe external mani
festations Of Clemenceau, practically
nothing Of any of these. 1t Is, rather.
the search of the man himself, Tor
hinself--that old adventure that the
human has pursued since first he stood
UP and looked administering and feel
ing and beginning, fumbingly, to think
upon himself and the world with which
he must have henceforth to do. This
is the record Of Clemenceau's spirit
wandering throughout space for the an
swer to himself. To every part OF the
world he sent this man, this physical
man, Clemerceau, bidding him to
search the diverse races Of men for
racial origins in religion, in art, in
orders Of society, In achievements OF
both material and spiritual content
Beside this life Of actual wandering,
always searching and always asking, the
man probed into wisdom old and new
into old PHILOSOPHERS and into modern
science, often finding the new to be
old and the old new. Literature and
poetry, those pictures OF the heart and
spirit of man, were also impressed TO
service. Even the activities OF the day,
its politics and social programs, Its phil
anthropies and errancies alike came in
for interpretations-of what? OF man
in his essence as we'll as in his bodily
relationships to all other animate ex-
istence, Of man in his ultimate destiny.
Here is search, and research, that Is
dauntleSS before the most blighting OF
facts. Here is ferocity of pursuit that
must quell, first Of all, mans agonizing
desire to be that which the promises OF
all time have assured him that he will
tradition, learning, sophistry, illusion
the tiger" bent upon wrestling from
men and gods just what this George
Clemenceau is-just what you and
are. Two volumes of passionate, bril-
liant, electrifying adventure sum to
the exploration of this fearless man.
And where does he come out? What
has he for us out OF the depth and
scope of his personal expedition into
- .
the individual convictions drawn from
such out-faring? The outcome OF the
whole matter is bound to stir up. most
formidable army of friends and foes
but any worth while product Of an
independent and original mind does
that. To come to the special value OF
this big record Of conviction by Glenn
enceau that lies, take it, in its clear
and searching illumination Of the man
than George Clemenceau or any other
famous person, is. when fully disclosed
in mind and spirit, a rich legacy IN
world where concealment Is instructive
and general. Here is full disclosure,
fearless avowal and heroic fronting
upon the Clemenceau inevitable.
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