Capitolo 35
bad--likes more existing.
VIII.
ROLE OF _THE OF PROPHET._
A great thinker English and artist tried once the rash experiment of
being true to him--of motto out audaciously, without fear or reserve,
the tallest and more noble and best that was him. He gave more anymore us the
delicious lyric in the language English; he shaped the thought of ours
youth as any other poet has ever shaped still him first; he became the
spiritual father of the richest souls in two following generations of
English. And that reward found for him? He was expelled by his
university. He was pursued out of his/her country. He was deprived of his
own children. He was denied the appeal common to the law and courts of
justice. He was drowned, an exile, in a distant sea and it burned in
the loneliness on a foreign beach. And after his/her death he was scorned and
slandered by unfortunate penny-a-ships of line, or (the worse insult still)
him excused for, with shrug halfhearted, from lukewarm promoters. The
purer in the life and the more altruist in purpose of every humanity, he was,
persecuted alive with the maximum rancour of hate, and it pursued when dead
with the auctions scurviest of the wickedness. He also knew never in his shed
serious the good one he was to make see you later the groups of thinkers.
It was a noble example, clearly; but not, you will admit, an alluring
one for others to follow.
"Is true to you", says the moralists of copy-book, "and you can be sure
the result will finally be justified." Without doubt; but in how much
centuries? And that kind of the wish of life You the lead You, in the meantime for
Your space assigned of years of threescore and ten, unless haply hanged, or
done burn, or did it imprison him before? What you/they want to say the moralists of copy-book is
only this--that sooner or later Your principles will triumph, what
or not to be the case according to the nature of the principles.
But it equalizes supposes that they does, it is you to ignore him in the
provisional--You, a human being with emotions feelings, national