On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings ; What ...
On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings ; What ...
James William
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Later in life he always recurred with joy to this month of captivity, and never failed to speak with enthusiasm of the powerful and ineflFace- ^ Vita, lib. 2, chap. iv. Digitized by VjOOQIC 36 ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS able sensations, and especially of the moral calm which he had exj)erienced at this epoch. When at daybreak, on the morrow of his imprisonment, he saw [I abridge here Tolstoi's description] the mountains with their wooded slopes disappearing in the gray- ish mist; when he felt the c...ool breeze caress him; when he saw the light drive away the vapors, and the sun rise majestically behind the clouds and cupolas, and the crosses, the dew, the distance, the river, sparkle in the splendid, cheerful rays, — his heart overflowed with emotion. This emotion kept continually with him, and increased a hundred-fold as the difficulties of his situa- tion grew graver. . . . He learnt that man is meant for happiness, and that this happi- ness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of existence, and that unhappiness is the fatal result, not of our need, but of our abundance.
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