Capitolo 9
understanding with some principles and the repugnances to others. Him,
with all of his/her abilities and the aspirations and beliefs, it is not a
accident but a product of the time. He has to remember that while
he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future; and
what its thoughts are as children been born to him, what he is not able
gaily makes die. Him as every other man you/he/she can properly consider
him like one of the innumerable agencies through who works the
Unknown cause; and when the Unknown Cause produces in him a certain
belief, he is cleared with this to profess and to translate in practice that
belief. For, to make in their taller sense the words of the
poet--
'Nature is made best from any bad,
But nature ago that mean; on that art
What you say it adds to nature, it is an art
That nature ago.'
"Not as temporary therefore wants the respect of man I test the faith
what him is. The tallest truth that he sees him fearlessly wants
absolute; knowing that, face what can come of him, he is playing this way
his/her correct part in the world--knowing that if he can effect the
changes he aims to--well: if not--well also; although not So well."
That passage comforts me. These, are then my ideas. They can be
you straighten, they can be wrong. But at least them they are the sincere ones and
the personal sentences of a honest man, guaranteed in him from that
spirit of the age of which each of us is but an automatic weapon
mouth.
G. A.
THE BRITISH BARBARIANS
ME
The time was afternoon of Saturday; the place was Carriage; the person
of the play Phillip was Christy.
He had come down in the first fast train to Brackenhurst. All the
world knows Brackenhurst, clearly the more green and leafier than
our southern suburbs. It also looked more beautiful than his accustomed only
then, that city of villas, in the first fresh tenderness of his pale
spring foliage, the first full throw of water of lilac, laburnum, horse-
chestnut, and guelder-pink. The air was heavy with the odor of May