Occasions a volume of Essays On Such Divers Themes As Laughter And Cathedrals
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This may explain the poets and them that see visions and dream dreams. It also may explain the average man who physics himself with hope against disillusion. Not for nothing are our popular sentimental songs Utopist. " There's a Good Time coming, Boys — so wait a little longer, " of yesterday, and " Somewhere the Stars are Shining, " of to-day, are equally criticisms of 138 SOMEWHERE IN NOWHERE life with Rabbi Ben Ezra and Prometheus Unbound. But though the pain of Hving may be narcotized by ho...pe, Hfe is not helped thereby. Unless we either permit ourselves to flow with the stream towards the better land of our dreams, or, better still, unless we are willing to make some effort to speed up the sailing thither, we are little more than sentimentalists, treacherous alike to the present and the future. At this hour, ^ more than any other hour in the history of the world, " the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, " we are all actors in a tragic drama which had a sudden beginning but has no apparent end.
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