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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Quotes and Images From The Works of Charles Dudley Warner + +Author: Charles Dudley Warner + Edited and Arranged by David Widger + +Release Date: August 28, 2004 [EBook #7557] +Last Updated: October 26, 2007] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FROM WARNER *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + THE WRITINGS OF <br /><br /> CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER + </h1> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%"> + <img alt="portrait.jpg (19K)" src="images/portrait.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + > <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:80%"> + <img alt="titlepage.jpg (51K)" src="images/titlepage.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + > <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h2> + CONTENTS + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<a href="#summer">Summer in a Garden</a> +<a href="#backlog">Backlog Studies</a> +<a href="#baddeck">Baddeck</a> +<a href="#wilderness">In the Wilderness</a> +<a href="#spring">Spring in New England</a> +<a href="#captain">Captain John Smith</a> +<a href="#pocahontas">Pocahontas</a> +<a href="#saunterings">Saunterings</a> +<a href="#being">Being a Boy</a> +<a href="#horseback">On Horseback</a> +<a href="#shakespeare">For whom Shakespeare Wrote</a> +<a href="#novel">Novel and School</a> +<a href="#england">England</a> +<a href="#pilgrimage">Their Pilgrimage</a> + + +</pre> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<a href="#froude">Mr. Froude's Progress</a> +<a href="#fiction">Modern Fiction</a> +<a href="#culture">Your Culture to Me</a> +<a href="#equality">Equality</a> +<a href="#literature">Literature and Life</a> +<a href="#copyright">Literary Copyright</a> +<a href="#indeterminate">Indeterminate Sentence</a> +<a href="#negro">Education of the Negro</a> +<a href="#discontent">Causes of Discontent</a> +<a href="#pilgrim">Pilgrim and American</a> +<a href="#diversities">Diversities of American Life</a> +<a href="#newspaper">American Newspaper</a> +<a href="#fashions">Fashions in Literature</a> +<a href="#irving">Washington Irving</a> + + +</pre> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<a href="#essays">Nine Short Essays</a> + CONTENTS: + Night in Tuilleries + Truthfulness + Pursuit of Happiness + Literature and the Stage + Life Prolonging Art + H.H. in S. California + Simplicity + English Volunteers + Nathan Hale +<a href="#aswego">As We Go</a> +<a href="#saying">As We Were Saying</a> +<a href="#fortune">That Fortune</a> +<a href="#house">The Golden House</a> +<a href="#world">Little Journey in the World</a> +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h2> + PASSAGES AND SHORT QUOTATIONS FROM <br /><br /> CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER + </h2> + <blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="irving" id="irving"></a>WASHINGTON IRVING + </h3> + <p> + <br /> "Some persons, in looking upon life, view it as they would view a + picture, with a stern and criticising eye. He also looks upon life as a + picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,—not its defects + and shadows. On the former he loves to dwell. He has a wonderful knack + at shutting his eyes to the sinister side of anything. Never beat a more + kindly heart than his; alive to the sorrows, but not to the faults, of + his friends, but doubly alive to their virtues and goodness. Indeed, + people seemed to grow more good with one so unselfish and so gentle." + —Emily Foster. <br /><br /> ....authors are particularly candid in + admitting the faults of their friends. <br /><br /> The governor, from the + stern of his schooner, gave a short but truly patriarchal address to his + citizens, wherein he recommended them to comport like loyal and + peaceable subjects,—to go to church regularly on Sundays, and to + mind their business all the week besides. That the women should be + dutiful and affectionate to their husbands,—looking after nobody's + concerns but their own,—eschewing all gossipings and morning + gaddings,—and carrying short tongues and long petticoats. That the + men should abstain from intermeddling in public concerns, intrusting the + cares of government to the officers appointed to support them, staying + at home, like good citizens, making money for themselves, and getting + children for the benefit of their country. <br /><br /> It happens to the + princes of literature to encounter periods of varying duration when + their names are revered and their books are not read. The growth, not to + say the fluctuation, of Shakespeare's popularity is one of the + curiosities of literary history. Worshiped by his contemporaries, + apostrophized by Milton only fourteen pears after his death as the "dear + son of memory, great heir to fame,"—"So sepulchred in such pomp + dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die,"—he was + neglected by the succeeding age, the subject of violent extremes of + opinion in the eighteenth century, and so lightly esteemed by some that + Hume could doubt if he were a poet "capable of furnishing a proper + entertainment to a refined and intelligent audience," and attribute to + the rudeness of his "disproportioned and misshapen" genius the "reproach + of barbarism" which the English nation had suffered from all its + neighbors. <br /><br /> I have lost confidence in the favorable + disposition of my countrymen, and look forward to cold scrutiny and + stern criticism, and this is a line of writing in which I have not + hitherto ascertained my own powers. Could I afford it, I should like to + write, and to lay my writings aside when finished. There is an + independent delight in study and in the creative exercise of the pen; we + live in a world of dreams, but publication lets in the noisy rabble of + the world, and there is an end of our dreaming. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="pilgrimage" id="pilgrimage"></a>THEIR PILGRIMAGE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Act of eating is apt to be disenchanting +Air of endurance that fathers of families put on +Anxiously asked at every turn how he likes it +As much by what they did not say as by what they did say +Asked Mr King if this was his first visit +Beautifully regular and more satisfactorily monotonous +Best part of a conversation is the things not said +Comfort of leaving same things to the imagination +Common attitude of the wholesale to the retail dealer +Confident opinions about everything +Couldn't stand this sort of thing much longer +Designed by a carpenter, and executed by a stone-mason +Facetious humor that is more dangerous than grumbling +Fat men/women were never intended for this sort of exhibition +Feeding together in a large room must be a little humiliating +Fish, they seemed to say, are not so easily caught as men +Florid man, who "swelled" in, patronizing the entire room +Hated a fellow that was always in high spirits +Irresponsibility of hotel life +It is a kind of information I have learned to dispense with +It's an occupation for a man to keep up a cottage +Let me be unhappy now and then, and not say anything about it +Live, in short, rather more for one's self than for society +Loftily condescending +Lunch was dinner and that dinner was supper +Man in love is poor company for himself and for everybody else +Nearsighted, you know, about seeing people that are not +Not to care about anything you do care about +Notion of duty has to account for much of the misery in life +People who haven't so many corners as our people have +People who leave home on purpose to grumble +Pet dogs of all degrees of ugliness +Satisfy the average taste without the least aid from art +Seemed only a poor imitation of pleasure +Shrinking little man, whose whole appearance was an apology +Small frame houses hopelessly decorated with scroll-work +So many swearing colors +Thinking of themselves and the effect they are producing +Vanishing shades of an attractive and consolable grief +Women are cruelest when they set out to be kind +Wore their visible exclusiveness like a garment +Young ones who know what is best for the elders +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="world" id="world"></a>LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Absurd to be so interested in fictitious trouble +And in this way I crawled out of the discussion, as usual +Anything can be borne if he knows that he shall see her tomorrow +Clubs and circles +Democracy is intolerant of variations from the general level +Do you think so? +Eagerness to acquire the money of other people, not to make it +Easier to be charitable than to be just +Everybody has read it +Great deal of mind, it takes him so long to make it up +How much good do you suppose condescending charity does? +In youth, as at the opera, everything seems possible +It is so easy to turn life into a comedy! +It is so painful to shrink, and so delightful to grow! +Knew how roughly life handles all youthful enthusiasms +Liberty to indulge in republican simplicity +Much easier to forgive a failure than a success +Not the use of money, but of the use money makes of you +One thing to entertain and another to be entertaining +Possessory act of readjusting my necktie +Process which is called weighing a thing in the mind +Simple enjoyment being considered an unworthy motive +Society that exists mainly to pay its debts gets stupid +Talk is always tame if no one dares anything +Tastes and culture were of the past age +Unhappy are they whose desires are all ratified +World has become so tolerant that it doesn't care +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="house" id="house"></a>THE GOLDEN HOUSE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Absolutely necessary that the world should be amused +Affectation of familiarity +Air of determined enjoyment +Always did what he said he would do +Desire to do something rather than the desire to make something +Don't know what it's all for—I doubt if there is much in it +Easier to make art fashionable than to make fashion artistic +Emanation of aggressive prosperity +Everybody is superficially educated +Grateful for her forbearance of verbal expression +Happy life: an income left, not earned by toil +Her very virtues are enemies of her peace +How little a thing can make a woman happy +Human vanity will feed on anything within its reach +If one man wins, somebody else has got to lose +Knew how to be confidential without disclosing anything +Long-established habits of aversion or forbearance +Moral hazard bravely incurred in the duty of knowing life +Nature is such a beautiful painter of wood +No confidences are possible outside of that relation +No one expected anything, and no one was disappointed +No such thing as a cheap yacht +Ordering and eating the right sort of lunch +Pitiful about habitual hypocrisy is that it never deceives anybody +"Squares," where the poor children get their idea of forests +To be commanded with such gentleness was a sort of luxury +Was getting to be the fashion; but now it's fashionable +Whatever he disclosed was always in confidence +World requires a great variety of people to keep it going +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="fortune" id="fortune"></a>THAT FORTUNE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Artist who cannot paint a rail-fence cannot paint a pyramid +Best things for us in this world are the things we don't get +Big subject does not make a big writer +Bud will never come to flower if you pull it in pieces +Do you know what it is to want what you don't want? +Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them +Freedom to excel in nothing +Had gained everything he wanted in life except happiness +Indefeasible right of the public to have news +Intellectual poverty +Known something if I hadn't been kept at school +Longing is one thing and reason another +Making himself instead of in making money +Mediocrity of the amazing art product +Never go fishing without both fly and bait +Nothing like it certainly had happened to anybody +Object was to win a case rather than to do justice in a case +Public that gets tired of anything in about three days +Remaining enjoyment is the indulgence of frank speech +Sell your manuscripts, but don't sell your soul +Success is often a misfortune +Summer days that come but to go +There isn't much to feel here except what you see +Things that are self-evident nobody seems to see +Vanity at the bottom of even a reasonable ambition +We confound events with causes +What is society for? +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="saying" id="saying"></a>AS WE WERE SAYING + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Absorption in self +American pronunciation of the letter 'a' a reproach to the Republic +Annual good intentions +Art of listening and the art of talking both being lost +Attempt to fill up our minds as if they were jars +Barbarians of civilization +Blessed are those that expect nothing +But is it true that a woman is ever really naturalized? +Ceased to relish the act of studying +Content with the superficial +Could play anybody else's hand better than his own +Culture is certain to mock itself in time +Disease of conformity +Disposition of people to shift labor on to others' shoulders +Do not like to be insulted with originality +Eve trusted the serpent, and Adam trusted Eve +Fit for nothing else, they can at least write +Good form to be enthusiastic and not disgraceful to be surprised +Housecleaning, that riot of cleanliness which men fear +Idle desire to be busy without doing anything +Imagining that the more noise there is in the room the better +Imitativeness of the race +Insist that he shall admire at the point of the social bayonet +It is beautiful to witness our reliance upon others +Lady intending suicide always throw on a waterproof +Let it be common, and what distinction will there be in it? +Man's inability to "match" anything is notorious +Needs no reason if fashion or authority condemns it +Nothing is so easy to bear as the troubles of other people +Passion for display is implanted in human nature +Platitudinous is to be happy? +Reader, who has enough bad weather in his private experience +Seldom that in her own house a lady gets a chance to scream +Taste usually implies a sort of selection +To read anything or study anything we resort to a club +Vast flocks of sheep over the satisfying plain of mediocrity +Vitality of a fallacy is incalculable +Want our literature (or what passes for that) in light array +We move in spirals, if not in circles +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="aswego" id="aswego"></a>AS WE GO + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Agreeable people are pretty evenly distributed over the country +As wealth is attained the capacity of enjoying it departs +Assertive sort of smartness that was very disagreeable +Attention to his personal appearance is only spasmodic +Boy who is a man before he is an infant +Bringing a man to her feet, where he belongs +Chief object in life is to "get there" quickly +Climate which is rather worse now than before the scientists +Content: not wanting that we can get +Excuse is found for nearly every moral delinquency +Frivolous old woman fighting to keep the skin-deep beauty +Granted that woman is the superior being +Held to strict responsibility for her attractiveness +History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions +Hot arguments are usually the bane of conversation +Idleness seems to be the last accomplishment of civilization +Insists upon applying everywhere the yardstick of his own local +It is not enough to tell the truth (that has been told before) +Knows more than he will ever know again +Land where things are so much estimated by what they cost +Listen appreciatingly even if deceivingly +Man and wife are one, and that one is the husband +Mean more by its suggestions and allusions than is said +Must we be always either vapid or serious? +Newspaper-made person +No power on earth that can prevent the return of the long skirt +No room for a leisure class that is not useful +Persistence of privilege is an unexplained thing in human affairs +Poor inhabitants living along only from habit +Repose in activity +Responsibility of attractiveness +Responsible for all the mischief her attractiveness produces +Rights cannot all be on one side and the duties on the other +Servile imitation of nature degrades art +They have worn off the angular corners of existence +They who build without woman build in vain +Those who use their time merely to kill it +Trying to escape winter when we are not trying to escape summer +Use their time merely to kill it +Want of toleration of sectional peculiarities +Wantonly sincere +We are already too near most people +Woman can usually quote accurately +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="essays" id="essays"></a>NINE SHORT ESSAYS + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + A Night in the Garden of the Tuilleries + Truthfulness + The Pursuit of Happiness + Literature and the Stage + The Life-saving and Life Prolonging Art + "H.H." in Southern California + Simplicity + The English Volunteers During the Late Invasion + Nathan Hale + +Affection for the old-fashioned, all-round country doctor +Applauds what would have blushed at a few years ago +Architectural measles in this country +Avoid comparisons, similes, and even too much use of metaphor +Book a window, through which I am to see life +Cannot be truthfulness about life without knowledge +Contemporary play instead of character we have "characters," +Disposition to make the best of whatever comes to us +Do not habitually postpone that season of happiness +Dwelling here. And here content to dwell +Explainable, if not justifiable +Eye demands simple lines, proportion, harmony in mass, dignity +Happiness is an inner condition, not to be raced after +Instead of simply being happy in the condition where we are +Lawyers will divide the oyster between them +Make a newspaper to suit the public +Making the journey of this life with just baggage enough +Moral specialist, who has only one hobby +Name an age that has cherished more delusions than ours +No amount of failure seems to lessen this belief +No man can count himself happy while in this life +No satisfaction in gaining more than we personally want +Not the thing itself, but the pursuit, that is an illusion +Profession which demands so much self-sacrifice +Proprietary medicine business is popular ignorance and credulity +"Purely vegetable" seem most suitable to the wooden-heads +Relapsing into the tawdry and the over-ornamented +Secrecy or low origin of the remedy that is its attraction +Simplicity: This is the stamp of all enduring work +Thinks he may be exempt from the general rules +Treated the patient, as the phrase is, for all he was worth +Unrelieved realism is apt to give a false impression +Warm up to the doctor when the judgment Day heaves in view +Yankee ingenuity,—he "could do anything but spin," +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="fashions" id="fashions"></a>FASHIONS IN LITERATURE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Discrimination between the manifold shadings of insincerity +Great deal of the reading done is mere contagion +His own tastes and prejudices the standard of his judgment +Inability to keep up with current literature +Main object of life is not to keep up with the printing-press +Man who is past the period of business activity +Never to read a book until it is from one to five years old +Quietly putting himself on common ground with his reader +Simplicity +Slovenly literature, unrebuked and uncorrected +Suggestion rather than by commandment +Unenlightened popular preference for a book +Waste precious time in chasing meteoric appearances +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="newspaper" id="newspaper"></a>AMERICAN NEWSPAPER + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +American newspaper is susceptible of some improvement +Borderland between literature and common sense +Casualties as the chief news +Continue to turn round when there is no grist to grind +Elevates the trivial in life above the essential +If it does not pay its owner, it is valueless to the public +Looking for something spicy and sensational +Most newspapers cost more than they sell for +Newspaper's object is to make money for its owner +Power, the opportunity, the duty, the "mission," of the press +Public craves eagerly for only one thing at a time +Quotations of opinions as news +Should be a sharp line drawn between the report and the editorial +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="diversities" id="diversities"></a>DIVERSITIES OF AMERICAN LIFE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + It appears, therefore, that speed,—the ability to move rapidly + from place to place,—a disproportionate reward of physical over + intellectual science, an intense desire to be rich, which is strong + enough to compel even education to grind in the mill of the Philistines, + and an inordinate elevation in public consideration of rich men simply + because they are rich, are characteristics of this little point of time + on which we stand. They are not the only characteristics; in a + reasonably optimistic view, the age is distinguished for unexampled + achievements, and for opportunities for the well-being of humanity never + before in all history attainable. But these characteristics are so + prominent as to beget the fear that we are losing the sense of the + relative value of things in this life. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="pilgrim" id="pilgrim"></a>PILGRIM AND AMERICAN + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + What republics have most to fear is the rule of the boss, who is a + tyrant without responsibility. He makes the nominations, he dickers and + trades for the elections, and at the end he divides the spoils. The + operation is more uncertain than a horse race, which is not decided by + the speed of the horses, but by the state of the wagers and the + manipulation of the jockeys. We strike directly at his power for + mischief when we organize the entire civil service of the nation and of + the States on capacity, integrity, experience, and not on political + power. <br /><br /> And if we look further, considering the danger of + concentration of power in irresponsible hands, we see a new cause for + alarm in undue federal mastery and interference. <br /><br /> Poverty is + not commonly a nurse of virtue, long continued, it is a degeneration. It + is almost as difficult for the very poor man to be virtuous as for the + very rich man; and very good and very rich at the same time, says + Socrates, a man cannot be. It is a great people that can withstand great + prosperity <br /><br /> We are in no vain chase of an equality which would + eliminate all individual initiative, and check all progress, by ignoring + differences of capacity and strength, and rating muscles equal to + brains. But we are in pursuit of equal laws, and a fairer chance of + leading happy lives than humanity in general ever had yet. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="discontent" id="discontent"></a>CAUSES OF DISCONTENT + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + Now, content does not depend so much upon a man's actual as his relative + condition. Often it is not so much what I need, as what others have that + disturbs me. I should be content to walk from Boston to New York, and be + a fortnight on the way, if everybody else was obliged to walk who made + that journey. It becomes a hardship when my neighbor is whisked over the + route in six hours and I have to walk. It would still be a hardship if + he attained the ability to go in an hour, when I was only able to + accomplish the distance in six hours. <br /><br /> It ought to be said, as + to the United States, that a very considerable part of the discontent is + imported, it is not native, nor based on any actual state of things + existing here. Agitation has become a business. A great many men and + some women, to whom work of any sort is distasteful, live by it. <br /><br /> + Compared with the freedom of action in such a government as ours, any + form of communism is an iniquitous and meddlesome despotism. <br /><br /> + Doubtless men might have been created equal to each other in every + respect, with the same mental capacity, the same physical ability, with + like inheritances of good or bad qualities, and born into exactly + similar conditions, and not dependent on each other. But men never were + so created and born, so far as we have any record of them, and by + analogy we have no reason to suppose that they ever will be. Inequality + is the most striking fact in life. Absolute equality might be better, + but so far as we can see, the law of the universe is infinite diversity + in unity; and variety in condition is the essential of what we call + progress—it is, in fact, life. <br /><br /> It sometimes seems as if + half the American people were losing the power to apply logical + processes to the ordinary affairs of life. <br /><br /> It is human + nature, it is the lesson of history, that real wrongs, unredressed, grow + into preposterous demands. Men are much like nature in action; a little + disturbance of atmospheric equilibrium becomes a cyclone, a slight break + in the levee a crevasse with immense destructive power. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="negro" id="negro"></a>EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + But slavery brought about one result, and that the most difficult in the + development of a race from savagery, and especially a tropical race, a + race that has always been idle in the luxuriance of a nature that + supplied its physical needs with little labor. It taught the negro to + work, it transformed him, by compulsion it is true, into an industrial + being, and held him in the habit of industry for several generations. + Perhaps only force could do this, for it was a radical transformation. I + am glad to see that this result of slavery is recognized by Mr. Booker + Washington, the ablest and most clear-sighted leader the Negro race has + ever had. <br /><br /> Conceit of gentility of which the world has already + enough. <br /><br /> It is this character, quality, habit, the result of a + slow educational process, which distinguishes one race from another. It + is this that the race transmits, and not the more or less accidental + education of a decade or an era. The Brahmins carry this idea into the + next life, and say that the departing spirit carries with him nothing + except this individual character, no acquirements or information or + extraneous culture. It was perhaps in the same spirit that the sad + preacher in Ecclesiastes said there is no "knowledge nor wisdom in the + grave, whither thou goest." It is by this character that we classify + civilized and even semi-civilized races; by this slowly developed fibre, + this slow accumulation of inherent quality in the evolution of the human + being from lower to higher, that continues to exist notwithstanding the + powerful influence of governments and religions. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="indeterminate" id="indeterminate"></a>INDETERMINATE SENTENCE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + The proposed method is the indeterminate sentence. This strikes directly + at the criminal class. It puts that class beyond the power of continuing + its depredations upon society. It is truly deterrent, because it is a + notification to any one intending to enter upon that method of living + that his career ends with his first felony. As to the general effects of + the indeterminate sentence, I will repeat here what I recently wrote for + the Yale Law Journal. <br /><br /> It happens, therefore, that there is + great sympathy with the career of the lawbreakers, many people are + hanging on them for support, and among them the so-called criminal + lawyers. Any legislation likely to interfere seriously with the + occupation of the criminal class or with its increase is certain to meet + with the opposition of a large body of voters. With this active + opposition of those interested, and the astonishing indifference of the + general public, it is easy to see why so little is done to relieve us of + this intolerable burden. The fact is, we go on increasing our expenses + for police, for criminal procedure, for jails and prisons, and we go on + increasing the criminal class and those affiliated with it. <br /><br /> I + will suggest that the convict should, for his own sake, have the + indeterminate sentence applied to him upon conviction of his first penal + offense. He is much more likely to reform then than he would be after he + had had a term in the State prison and was again convicted, and the + chance of his reformation would be lessened by each subsequent + experience of this kind. The great object of the indeterminate sentence, + so far as the security of society is concerned, is to diminish the + number of the criminal class, and this will be done when it is seen that + the first felony a man commits is likely to be his last, and that for a + young criminal contemplating this career there is in this direction: "No + Thoroughfare." <br /><br /> It is very significant that the criminal class + adapted itself readily to the parole system with its sliding scale. It + was natural that this should be so, for it fits in perfectly well with + their scheme of life. This is to them a sort of business career, + interrupted now and then only by occasional limited periods of + seclusion. Any device that shall shorten those periods is welcome to + them. As a matter of fact, we see in the State prisons that the men most + likely to shorten their time by good behavior, and to get released on + parole before the expiration of their sentence, are the men who make + crime their career. They accept this discipline as a part of their lot + in life, and it does not interfere with their business any more than the + occasional bankruptcy of a merchant interferes with his pursuits. <br /><br /> + No tribunal is able with justice to mete out punishment in any + individual case, for probably the same degree of guilt does not attach + to two men in the violation of the same statute. <br /><br /> It is purely + an economic and educational problem, and must rest upon the same + principles that govern in any successful industry, or in education, and + that we recognize in the conduct of life. That little progress has been + made is due to public indifference to a vital question and to the action + of sentimentalists, who, in their philanthropic zeal; fancy that a + radical reform can come without radical discipline. We are largely + wasting our energies in petty contrivances instead of striking at the + root of the evil. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="copyright" id="copyright"></a>LITERARY COPYRIGHT + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + It is the habit of some publishing houses, not of all, let me distinctly + say, to seek always notoriety, not to nurse and keep before the public + mind the best that has been evolved from time to time, but to offer + always something new. The year's flooring is threshed off and the floor + swept to make room for a fresh batch. Effort eventually ceases for the + old and approved, and is concentrated on experiments. This is like the + conduct of a newspaper. It is assumed that the public must be startled + all the time. <br /><br /> Consider first the author, and I mean the + author, and not the mere craftsman who manufactures books for a + recognized market. His sole capital is his talent. His brain may be + likened to a mine, gold, silver, copper, iron, or tin, which looks like + silver when new. Whatever it is, the vein of valuable ore is limited, in + most cases it is slight. When it is worked out, the man is at the end of + his resources. <br /><br /> It is generally conceded that what literature + in America needs at this moment is honest, competent, sound criticism. + This is not likely to be attained by sporadic efforts, especially in a + democracy of letters where the critics are not always superior to the + criticised, where the man in front of the book is not always a better + marksman than the man behind the book. <br /><br /> The fashion of the day + is rarely the judgment of posterity. You will recall what Byron wrote to + Coleridge: "I trust you do not permit yourself to be depressed by the + temporary partiality of what is called 'the public' for the favorites of + the moment; all experience is against the permanency of such + impressions. You must have lived to see many of these pass away, and + will survive many more." + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="literature" id="literature"></a>LITERATURE AND LIFE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +All the world is diseased and in need of remedies +Arrive at the meaning by the definition of exclusion +Care of riches should have the last place in our thoughts +Each in turn contends that his art produces the greatest good +Impress and reduce to obsequious deference the hotel clerk +Opinions inherited, not formed +Prejudice working upon ignorance +Pursuit of office—which is sometimes called politics +Rab and his Friends +Refuge of the aged in failing activity +Riches and rich men are honored in the state +Set aside as literature that which is original +To the lawyer everybody is or ought to be a litigant +Touching hopefulness +Very rich and very good at the same time he cannot be +Want of the human mind which is higher than the want of knowledge +What we call life is divided into occupations and interest +Without Plato there would be no Socrates +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="equality" id="equality"></a>EQUALITY + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + In accordance with the advice of Diogenes of Apollonia in the beginning + of his treatise on Natural Philosophy—"It appears to me to be well + for every one who commences any sort of philosophical treatise to lay + down some undeniable principle to start with"—we offer this: "All + men are created unequal." It would be a most interesting study to trace + the growth in the world of the doctrine of "equality." <br /><br /> Every + one talked of "the state of nature" as if he knew all about it. "The + conditions of primitive man," says Mr. Morley, "were discussed by very + incompetent ladies and gentlemen at convivial supper-parties, and + settled with complete assurance." That was the age when solitary + Frenchmen plunged into the wilderness of North America, confidently + expecting to recover the golden age under the shelter of a wigwam and in + the society of a squaw. <br /><br /> It is to be noticed that rights are + mentioned, but not duties, and that if political rights only are meant, + political duties are not inculcated as of equal moment. It is not + announced that political power is a function to be discharged for the + good of the whole body, and not a mere right to be enjoyed for the + advantage of the possessor; and it is to be noted also that this idea + did not enter into the conception of Rousseau. <br /><br /> We are + attempting the regeneration of society with a misleading phrase; we are + wasting our time with a theory that does not fit the facts. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="culture" id="culture"></a>WHAT IS YOUR CULTURE TO ME + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + It is not an unreasonable demand of the majority that the few who have + the advantages of the training of college and university should exhibit + the breadth and sweetness of a generous culture, and should shed + everywhere that light which ennobles common things, and without which + life is like one of the old landscapes in which the artist forgot to put + sunlight. One of the reasons why the college-bred man does not meet this + reasonable expectation is that his training, too often, has not been + thorough and conscientious, it has not been of himself; he has acquired, + but he is not educated. Another is that, if he is educated, he is not + impressed with the intimacy of his relation to that which is below him + as well as that which is above him, and his culture is out of sympathy + with the great mass that needs it, and must have it, or it will remain a + blind force in the world, the lever of demagogues who preach social + anarchy and misname it progress. <br /><br /> Let him not be discouraged + at his apparent little influence, even though every sally of every young + life may seem like a forlorn hope. No man can see the whole of the + battle. <br /><br /> To suggest remedies is much more difficult than to + see evils; but the comprehension of dangers is the first step towards + mastering them. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="fiction" id="fiction"></a>MODERN FICTION + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + One of the worst characteristics of modern fiction is its so-called + truth to nature. For fiction is an art, as painting is, as sculpture is, + as acting is. A photograph of a natural object is not art; nor is the + plaster cast of a man's face, nor is the bare setting on the stage of an + actual occurrence. Art requires an idealization of nature. The amateur, + though she may be a lady, who attempts to represent upon the stage the + lady of the drawing-room, usually fails to convey to the spectators the + impression of a lady. She lacks the art by which the trained actress, + who may not be a lady, succeeds. The actual transfer to the stage of the + drawing-room and its occupants, with the behavior common in well-bred + society, would no doubt fail of the intended dramatic effect, and the + spectators would declare the representation unnatural. <br /><br /> + Tragedy and the pathos of failure have their places in literature as + well as in life. I only say that, artistically, a good ending is as + proper as a bad ending. <br /><br /> Perhaps the most inane thing ever put + forth in the name of literature is the so-called domestic novel, an + indigestible, culinary sort of product, that might be named the doughnut + of fiction. The usual apology for it is that it depicts family life with + fidelity. Its characters are supposed to act and talk as people act and + talk at home and in society. I trust this is a libel, but, for the sake + of the argument, suppose they do. Was ever produced so insipid a result? + <br /><br /> The characteristics which are prominent, when we think of our + recent fiction, are a wholly unidealized view of human society, which + has got the name of realism; a delight in representing the worst phases + of social life; an extreme analysis of persons and motives; the + sacrifice of action to psychological study; the substitution of studies + of character for anything like a story; a notion that it is not + artistic, and that it is untrue to nature, to bring any novel to a + definite consummation, and especially to end it happily; and a + despondent tone about society, politics, and the whole drift of modern + life. Judged by our fiction, we are in an irredeemably bad way. <br /><br /> + The vulgar realism in pictorial art, which holds ugliness and beauty in + equal esteem; or against aestheticism gone to seed in languid + affectations; or against the enthusiasm of a social life which wreaks + its religion on the color of a vestment, or sighs out its divine soul + over an ancient pewter mug. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="froude" id="froude"></a>MR. FROUDE'S PROGRESS + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + For, as skepticism is in one sense the handmaid of truth, discontent is + the mother of progress. The man is comparatively of little use in the + world who is contented. <br /><br /> Education of the modern sort + unsettles the peasant, renders him unfit for labor, and gives us a + half-educated idler in place of a conscientious workman. <br /><br /> + Education must go forward; the man must not be half but wholly educated. + It is only half-knowledge like half-training in a trade that is + dangerous. <br /><br /> Mr. Froude runs lightly over a list of subjects + upon which the believer in progress relies for his belief, and then says + of them that the world calls this progress—he calls it only + change. <br /><br /> There are some select souls who sit apart in calm + endurance, waiting to be translated out of a world they are almost tired + of patronizing, to whom the whole thing seems, doubtless, like a cheap + performance. They sit on the fence of criticism, and cannot for the life + of them see what the vulgar crowd make such a toil and sweat about. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="england" id="england"></a>ENGLAND + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + Both parties, however, like parties elsewhere, propose and oppose + measures and movements, and accept or reject policies, simply to get + office or keep office. <br /><br /> In the judgment of many good + observers, a dissolution of the empire, so far as the Western colonies + are concerned, is inevitable, unless Great Britain, adopting the plan + urged by Franklin, becomes an imperial federation, with parliaments + distinct and independent, the crown the only bond of union—the + crown, and not the English parliament, being the titular and actual + sovereign. Sovereign power over America in the parliament Franklin never + would admit. <br /><br /> It is safe, we think, to say that if the British + Empire is to be dissolved, disintegration cannot be permitted to begin + at home. Ireland has always been a thorn in the side of England. And the + policy towards it could not have been much worse, either to impress it + with a respect for authority or to win it by conciliation; it has been a + strange mixture of untimely concession and untimely cruelty. The + problem, in fact, has physical and race elements that make it almost + insolvable. A water-logged country, of which nothing can surely be + predicted but the uncertainty of its harvests, inhabited by a people of + most peculiar mental constitution, alien in race, temperament, and + religion, having scarcely one point of sympathy with the English. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="novel" id="novel"></a>NOVEL AND SCHOOL + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + Note the seeming anomaly of a scientific age peculiarly credulous; the + ease with which any charlatan finds followers; the common readiness to + fall in with any theory of progress which appeals to the sympathies, and + to accept the wildest notions of social reorganization. We should be + obliged to note also, among scientific men themselves, a disposition to + come to conclusions on inadequate evidence—a disposition usually + due to one-sided education which lacks metaphysical training and the + philosophic habit. <br /><br /> Often children have only one book even of + this sort, at which they are kept until they learn it through by heart, + and they have been heard to "read" it with the book bottom side up or + shut! All these books cultivate inattention and intellectual vacancy. + They are—the best of them—only reading exercises; and + reading is not perceived to have any sort of value. The child is not + taught to think, and not a step is taken in informing him of his + relation to the world about him. His education is not begun. <br /><br /> + The lower-grade books are commonly inane (I will not say childish, for + that is a libel on the open minds of children) beyond description. <br /><br /> + The novel, mediocre, banal, merely sensational, and worthless for any + purpose of intellectual stimulus or elevation of the ideal, is thus + encouraged in this age as it never was before. The making of novels has + become a process of manufacture. Usually, after the fashion of the + silk-weavers of Lyons, they are made for the central establishment on + individual looms at home. <br /><br /> An honest acceptance of the law of + gravitation would banish many popular delusions; a comprehension that + something cannot be made out of nothing would dispose of others; and the + application of the ordinary principles of evidence, such as men require + to establish a title to property, would end most of the remaining. <br /><br /> + When the trash does not sell, the trash will not be produced, and those + who are only capable of supplying the present demand will perhaps find a + more useful occupation. It will be again evident that literature is not + a trade, but an art requiring peculiar powers and patient training. When + people know how to read, authors will need to know how to write. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="shakespeare" id="shakespeare"></a>FOR WHOM SHAKESPEARE WROTE + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Any parish which let a thief escape was fined +Beer making +Capable of weeping like children, and of dying like men +Complaint then, as now, that in many trades men scamped their work +Courageous gentlemen wore in their ears rings of gold and stones +Credulity and superstition of the age +Devil's liquor, I mean starch +Down a peg +Dramas which they considered as crude as they were coarse +Eve will be Eve, though Adam would say nay +Italy generally a curious custom of using a little fork for meat +Landlord let no one depart dissatisfied with his bill +Mistake ribaldry and loquacity for wit and wisdom +Pillows were thought meet only for sick women +Portuguese receipts +Prepare bills of fare (a trick lately taken up) +Sir Francis Bacon +So much cost upon the body, so little upon souls +Stagecoach +Teeth black—a defect the English seem subject to +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="horseback" id="horseback"></a>ON HORSEBACK + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Anxious to reach it, we were glad to leave it +Establishment had the air of taking care of itself +Fond of lawsuits seems a characteristic of an isolated people +It is not much use to try to run a jail without liquor +Man's success in court depended upon the length of his purse +Married? No, she hoped not +Monument of procrastination +Not much inclination to change his clothes or his cabin +One has to dodge this sort of question +Ornamentation is apt to precede comfort in our civilization +What a price to pay for mere life! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="being" id="being"></a>BEING A BOY + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Appear to be very active, and yet not do much +As they forgot they were a party, they began to enjoy themselves +As you get used to being a boy, you have to be something else +Boys have a great power of helping each other to do nothing +Conversation ran aground again +Expected nothing that he did not earn +Fed the poor boy's vanity, the weakness by which women govern +Felt wronged, and worked himself up to pass a wretched evening +Girls have a great deal more good sense in such matters than boys +Gladly do all the work if somebody else would do the chores +He is, like a barrel of beer, always on draft +Law will not permit men to shoot each other in plain clothes +Natural genius for combining pleasure with business +Not very disagreeable, or would not be if it were play +People hardly ever do know where to be born until it is too late +Spider-web is stronger than a cable +Undemonstrative affection +Very busy about nothing +Wearisome part is the waiting on the people who do the work +Why did n't the people who were sleepy go to bed? +Willing to do any amount of work if it is called play +Willing to repent if he could think of anything to repent of +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="saunterings" id="saunterings"></a>SAUNTERINGS + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Bane of travel is the destruction of illusions +Discontent of those who travel to enjoy themselves +Excellent but somewhat scattered woman +Inability to stand still for one second is the plague of it +Leaves it with mingled feelings about Columbus +One ought not to subject his faith to too great a strain +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="pocahontas" id="pocahontas"></a>POCAHONTAS + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + According to the long-accepted story of Pocahontas, she did something + more than interfere to save from barbarous torture and death a stranger + and a captive, who had forfeited his life by shooting those who opposed + his invasion. In all times, among the most savage tribes and in + civilized society, women have been moved to heavenly pity by the sight + of a prisoner, and risked life to save him—the impulse was as + natural to a Highland lass as to an African maid. Pocahontas went + further than efforts to make peace between the superior race and her + own. When the whites forced the Indians to contribute from their scanty + stores to the support of the invaders, and burned their dwellings and + shot them on sight if they refused, the Indian maid sympathized with the + exposed whites and warned them of stratagems against them; captured + herself by a base violation of the laws of hospitality, she was easily + reconciled to her situation, adopted the habits of the foreigners, + married one of her captors, and in peace and in war cast in her lot with + the strangers. History has not preserved for us the Indian view of her + conduct. <br /><br /> This savage was the Tomocomo spoken of above, who + had been sent by Powhatan to take a census of the people of England, and + report what they and their state were. At Plymouth he got a long stick + and began to make notches in it for the people he saw. But he was + quickly weary of that task. He told Smith that Powhatan bade him seek + him out, and get him to show him his God, and the King, Queen, and + Prince, of whom Smith had told so much. Smith put him off about showing + his God, but said he had heard that he had seen the King. This the + Indian denied, James probably not coming up to his idea of a king, till + by circumstances he was convinced he had seen him. Then he replied very + sadly: "You gave Powhatan a white dog, which Powhatan fed as himself, + but your king gave me nothing, and I am better than your white dog." + <br /><br /> Sir Thomas Dale was on the whole the most efficient and + discreet Governor the colony had had. One element of his success was no + doubt the change in the charter. By the first charter everything had + been held in common by the company, and there had been no division of + property or allotment of land among the colonists. Under the new regime + land was held in severalty, and the spur of individual interest began at + once to improve the condition of the settlement. The character of the + colonists was also gradually improving. They had not been of a sort to + fulfill the earnest desire of the London promoter's to spread vital + piety in the New World. A zealous defense of Virginia and Maryland, + against "scandalous imputation," entitled "Leah and Rachel; or, The Two + Fruitful Sisters," by Mr John Hammond, London, considers the charges + that Virginia "is an unhealthy place, a nest of rogues, abandoned women, + dissolute and rookery persons; a place of intolerable labour, bad usage + and hard diet"; and admits that "at the first settling, and for many + years after, it deserved most of these aspersions, nor were they then + aspersions but truths. There were jails supplied, youth seduced, + infamous women drilled in, the provision all brought out of England, and + that embezzled by the Trustees." + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="captain" id="captain"></a>CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +After fifteen years Smith is able to remember more details +Assertion in an insecure position +Cheaper credited than confuted +Entertaining if one did not see too much of him +Knew not the secret of having his own way +Long stick and began to make notches in it for the people he saw +Making religion their color +Peculiarly subject to such coincidences +Prince's mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse +Progressive memory +Somewhat damaging to an estimate of his originality +Thames had no bridges +Those that did not work should not eat +Tobacco-selling +Wanted advancement but were unwilling to adventure their ease +Would if he could +Writ too much, and done too little +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="spring" id="spring"></a>SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + Then follows a day of bright sun and blue sky. The birds open the + morning with a lively chorus. In spite of Auster, Euroclydon, low + pressure, and the government bureau, things have gone forward. By the + roadside, where the snow has just melted, the grass is of the color of + emerald. The heart leaps to see it. On the lawn there are twenty robins, + lively, noisy, worm-seeking. Their yellow breasts contrast with the + tender green of the newly-springing clover and herd's-grass. If they + would only stand still, we might think the dandelions had blossomed. On + an evergreen-bough, looking at them, sits a graceful bird, whose back is + bluer than the sky. There is a red tint on the tips of the boughs of the + hard maple. With Nature, color is life. See, already, green, yellow, + blue, red! In a few days—is it not so?—through the green + masses of the trees will flash the orange of the oriole, the scarlet of + the tanager; perhaps tomorrow. <br /><br /> But, in fact, the next day + opens a little sourly. It is almost clear overhead: but the clouds + thicken on the horizon; they look leaden; they threaten rain. It + certainly will rain: the air feels like rain, or snow. By noon it begins + to snow, and you hear the desolate cry of the phoebe-bird. It is a fine + snow, gentle at first; but it soon drives in swerving lines, for the + wind is from the southwest, from the west, from the northeast, from the + zenith (one of the ordinary winds of New England), from all points of + the compass. The fine snow becomes rain; it becomes large snow; it melts + as it falls; it freezes as it falls. At last a storm sets in, and night + shuts down upon the bleak scene. <br /><br /> During the night there is a + change. It thunders and lightens. Toward morning there is a brilliant + display of aurora borealis. This is a sign of colder weather. <br /><br /> + The gardener is in despair; so is the sportsman. The trout take no + pleasure in biting in such weather. <br /><br /> Paragraphs appear in the + newspapers, copied from the paper of last year, saying that this is the + most severe spring in thirty years. Every one, in fact, believes that it + is, and also that next year the spring will be early. Man is the most + gullible of creatures. <br /><br /> And with reason: he trusts his eyes, + and not his instinct. During this most sour weather of the year, the + anemone blossoms; and, almost immediately after, the fairy pencil, the + spring beauty, the dog-tooth violet, and the true violet. In clouds and + fog, and rain and snow, and all discouragement, Nature pushes on her + forces with progressive haste and rapidity. Before one is aware, all the + lawns and meadows are deeply green, the trees are opening their tender + leaves. In a burst of sunshine the cherry-trees are white, the + Judas-tree is pink, the hawthorns give a sweet smell. The air is full of + sweetness; the world, of color. <br /><br /> In the midst of a chilling + northeast storm the ground is strewed with the white-and-pink blossoms + from the apple-trees. The next day the mercury stands at eighty degrees. + Summer has come. <br /><br /> There was no Spring. <br /><br /> The winter + is over. You think so? Robespierre thought the Revolution was over in + the beginning of his last Thermidor. He lost his head after that. <br /><br /> + When the first buds are set, and the corn is up, and the cucumbers have + four leaves, a malicious frost steals down from the north and kills them + in a night. <br /><br /> That is the last effort of spring. The mercury + then mounts to ninety degrees. The season has been long, but, on the + whole, successful. Many people survive it. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="wilderness" id="wilderness"></a>IN THE WILDERNESS + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +According to the compass, the Lord only knew where I was +Business of civilization to tame or kill +Canopy of mosquitoes +Caricature of a road +Compass, which was made near Greenwich, was wrong +Democrats became as scarce as moose in the Adirondacks +Everlasting dress-parade of our civilization +Grand intentions and weak vocabulary +How lightly past hardship sits upon us! +I hain't no business here; but here I be! +Kept its distance, as only a mountain can +Man's noblest faculty, his imagination, or credulity. +Marriage is mostly for discipline +Misery, unheroic and humiliating +Near-sighted man, whose glasses the rain rendered useless +No conceit like that of isolation +No nervousness, but simply a reasonable desire to get there +Not lost, but gone before +Posthumous fear +Procession of unattainable meals stretched before me +Sense to shun the doctor; to lie down in some safe place +Solitude and every desirable discomfort +Stumbled against an ill-placed tree +Suffering when unaccompanied by resignation +Ten times harder to unlearn anything than it is to learn it +There is an impassive, stolid brutality about the woods +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="baddeck" id="baddeck"></a>BADDECK + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +Best part of going to sea is keeping close to the shore +Can leave it without regret +Dependent upon imagination and memory +Great part of the enjoyment of life +Luxury of his romantic grief +Picturesque sort of dilapidation +Rest is never complete—unless he can see somebody else at work +Won't see Mt. Desert till midnight, and then you won't +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="backlog" id="backlog"></a>BACKLOG STUDIES + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> +A good many things have gone out with the fire on the hearth +Abatement of a snow-storm that grows to exceptional magnitude +Anywhere a happier home than ours? I am glad of it! +Associate ourselves to make everybody else behave as we do. +Chilly drafts and sarcasms on what we call the temperate zone +Criticism by comparison is the refuge of incapables +Crowning human virtue in a man is to let his wife poke the fire +Don't know what success is +Each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance +Enjoyed poor health +Enthusiasm is a sign of inexperience, of ignorance +Fallen into the days of conformity +Few people know how to make a wood-fire +Finding the world disagreeable to themselves +Have almost succeeded in excluding pure air +Just as good as the real +Lived himself out of the world +Long score of personal flattery to pay off +Not half so reasonable as my prejudices +Pathos overcomes one's sense of the absurdity of such people +Permit the freedom of silence +Poetical reputation of the North American Indian +Point of breeding never to speak of anything in your house +Reformers manage to look out for themselves tolerably well +Refuge of mediocrity +Rest beyond the grave will not be much change for him +Said, or if I have not, I say it again +Severe attack of spiritism +Shares none of their uneasiness about getting on in life +Silence is unnoticed when people sit before a fire +Some men you always prefer to have on your left hand +Sort of busy idleness among men +There are no impossibilities to youth and inexperience +Things are apt to remain pretty much the same +Think the world they live in is the central one +To-day is like yesterday, +Usual effect of an anecdote on conversation +Women know how to win by losing +World owes them a living because they are philanthropists +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + <a name="summer" id="summer"></a>SUMMER IN A GARDEN + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + But I found him, one Sunday morning,—a day when it would not do to + get angry, tying his cow at the foot of the hill; the beast all the time + going on in that abominable voice. I told the man that I could not have + the cow in the grounds. He said, "All right, boss;" but he did not go + away. I asked him to clear out. The man, who is a French sympathizer + from the Republic of Ireland, kept his temper perfectly. He said he + wasn't doing anything, just feeding his cow a bit: he wouldn't make me + the least trouble in the world. I reminded him that he had been told + again and again not to come here; that he might have all the grass, but + he should not bring his cow upon the premises. The imperturbable man + assented to everything that I said, and kept on feeding his cow. Before + I got him to go to fresh scenes and pastures new, the Sabbath was almost + broken; but it was saved by one thing: it is difficult to be emphatic + when no one is emphatic on the other side. The man and his cow have + taught me a great lesson, which I shall recall when I keep a cow. I can + recommend this cow, if anybody wants one, as a steady boarder, whose + keeping will cost the owner little; but, if her milk is at all like her + voice, those who drink it are on the straight road to lunacy. <br /><br /> + Moral Truth.—I have no doubt that grapes taste best in other + people's mouths. It is an old notion that it is easier to be generous + than to be stingy. I am convinced that the majority of people would be + generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. + Philosophical Observation.—Nothing shows one who his friends are + like prosperity and ripe fruit. I had a good friend in the country, whom + I almost never visited except in cherry-time. By your fruits you shall + know them. <br /><br /> Pretending to reflect upon these things, but in + reality watching the blue-jays, who are pecking at the purple berries of + the woodbine on the south gable, I approach the house. Polly is picking + up chestnuts on the sward, regardless of the high wind which rattles + them about her head and upon the glass roof of her winter-garden. The + garden, I see, is filled with thrifty plants, which will make it always + summer there. The callas about the fountain will be in flower by + Christmas: the plant appears to keep that holiday in her secret heart + all summer. I close the outer windows as we go along, and congratulate + myself that we are ready for winter. For the winter-garden I have no + responsibility: Polly has entire charge of it. I am only required to + keep it heated, and not too hot either; to smoke it often for the death + of the bugs; to water it once a day; to move this and that into the sun + and out of the sun pretty constantly: but she does all the work. We + never relinquish that theory. <br /><br /> I have been digging my + potatoes, if anybody cares to know it. I planted them in what are called + "Early Rose,"—the rows a little less than three feet apart; but + the vines came to an early close in the drought. Digging potatoes is a + pleasant, soothing occupation, but not poetical. It is good for the + mind, unless they are too small (as many of mine are), when it begets a + want of gratitude to the bountiful earth. What small potatoes we all + are, compared with what we might be! We don't plow deep enough, any of + us, for one thing. I shall put in the plow next year, and give the + tubers room enough. I think they felt the lack of it this year: many of + them seemed ashamed to come out so small. There is great pleasure in + turning out the brown-jacketed fellows into the sunshine of a royal + September day, and seeing them glisten as they lie thickly strewn on the + warm soil. Life has few such moments. But then they must be picked up. + The picking-up, in this world, is always the unpleasant part of it. + <br /><br /> Nature is "awful smart." I intend to be complimentary in + saying so. She shows it in little things. I have mentioned my attempt to + put in a few modest turnips, near the close of the season. I sowed the + seeds, by the way, in the most liberal manner. Into three or four short + rows I presume I put enough to sow an acre; and they all came up,—came + up as thick as grass, as crowded and useless as babies in a Chinese + village. Of course, they had to be thinned out; that is, pretty much all + pulled up; and it took me a long time; for it takes a conscientious man + some time to decide which are the best and healthiest plants to spare. + After all, I spared too many. That is the great danger everywhere in + this world (it may not be in the next): things are too thick; we lose + all in grasping for too much. The Scotch say, that no man ought to thin + out his own turnips, because he will not sacrifice enough to leave room + for the remainder to grow: he should get his neighbor, who does not care + for the plants, to do it. But this is mere talk, and aside from the + point: if there is anything I desire to avoid in these agricultural + papers, it is digression. I did think that putting in these turnips so + late in the season, when general activity has ceased, and in a remote + part of the garden, they would pass unnoticed. But Nature never even + winks, as I can see. The tender blades were scarcely out of the ground + when she sent a small black fly, which seemed to have been born and held + in reserve for this purpose,—to cut the leaves. They speedily made + lace-work of the whole bed. Thus everything appears to have its special + enemy,—except, perhaps, p——y: nothing ever troubles + that. + </p> + </blockquote> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <p> + If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select + a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory—then open the + following eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search + operation. + </p> + <h3> + <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28821/28821-h/28821-h.htm"> The + Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Charles Dudley Warner</a> + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p> + These quotations were collected from the works of Charles Dudley Warner + by <a href="mailto:cdwidger@gmail.com">David Widger</a> while preparing + etexts for Project Gutenberg. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Quotes and Images From The Works of Charles Dudley Warner + +Author: Charles Dudley Warner + Edited and Arranged by David Widger + +Release Date: August 28, 2004 [EBook #7557] +[Last updated on February 19, 2007] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FROM WARNER *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + +QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER + + + +THE WRITINGS OF + +CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER + + + + + + +CONTENTS + +Summer in a Garden +Backlog Studies +Baddeck +In the Wilderness +Spring in New England +Captain John Smith +Pocahontas +Saunterings +Being a Boy +On Horseback +For whom Shakespeare Wrote +Novel and School +England +Their Pilgrimage + + + +Mr. Froude's Progress +Modern Fiction +Your Culture to Me +Equality +Literature and Life +Literary Copyright +Indeterminate Sentence +Education of the Negro +Causes of Discontent +Pilgrim and American +Diversities of American Life +American Newspaper +Fashions in Literature +Washington Irving + + + +Nine Short Essays + CONTENTS: + Night in Tuilleries + Truthfulness + Pursuit of Happiness + Literature and the Stage + Life Prolonging Art + H.H. in S. California + Simplicity + English Volunteers + Nathan Hale +As We Go +As We Were Saying +That Fortune +The Golden House +Little Journey in the World + + + + +PASSAGES AND SHORT QUOTATIONS FROM + +CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER + + + + +WASHINGTON IRVING + +"Some persons, in looking upon life, view it as they would view a +picture, with a stern and criticising eye. He also looks upon life as a +picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,--not its defects and +shadows. On the former he loves to dwell. He has a wonderful knack at +shutting his eyes to the sinister side of anything. Never beat a more +kindly heart than his; alive to the sorrows, but not to the faults, of +his friends, but doubly alive to their virtues and goodness. Indeed, +people seemed to grow more good with one so unselfish and so gentle." +--Emily Foster. + +....authors are particularly candid in admitting the faults of their +friends. + +The governor, from the stern of his schooner, gave a short but truly +patriarchal address to his citizens, wherein he recommended them to +comport like loyal and peaceable subjects,--to go to church regularly on +Sundays, and to mind their business all the week besides. That the women +should be dutiful and affectionate to their husbands,--looking after +nobody's concerns but their own,--eschewing all gossipings and morning +gaddings,--and carrying short tongues and long petticoats. That the men +should abstain from intermeddling in public concerns, intrusting the +cares of government to the officers appointed to support them, staying at +home, like good citizens, making money for themselves, and getting +children for the benefit of their country. + +It happens to the princes of literature to encounter periods of varying +duration when their names are revered and their books are not read. The +growth, not to say the fluctuation, of Shakespeare's popularity is one of +the curiosities of literary history. Worshiped by his contemporaries, +apostrophized by Milton only fourteen pears after his death as the "dear +son of memory, great heir to fame,"--"So sepulchred in such pomp dost +lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die,"--he was neglected +by the succeeding age, the subject of violent extremes of opinion in the +eighteenth century, and so lightly esteemed by some that Hume could doubt +if he were a poet "capable of furnishing a proper entertainment to a +refined and intelligent audience," and attribute to the rudeness of his +"disproportioned and misshapen" genius the "reproach of barbarism" which +the English nation had suffered from all its neighbors. + +I have lost confidence in the favorable disposition of my countrymen, and +look forward to cold scrutiny and stern criticism, and this is a line of +writing in which I have not hitherto ascertained my own powers. Could I +afford it, I should like to write, and to lay my writings aside when +finished. There is an independent delight in study and in the creative +exercise of the pen; we live in a world of dreams, but publication lets +in the noisy rabble of the world, and there is an end of our dreaming. + + + + +THEIR PILGRIMAGE + +Act of eating is apt to be disenchanting +Air of endurance that fathers of families put on +Anxiously asked at every turn how he likes it +As much by what they did not say as by what they did say +Asked Mr King if this was his first visit +Beautifully regular and more satisfactorily monotonous +Best part of a conversation is the things not said +Comfort of leaving same things to the imagination +Common attitude of the wholesale to the retail dealer +Confident opinions about everything +Couldn't stand this sort of thing much longer +Designed by a carpenter, and executed by a stone-mason +Facetious humor that is more dangerous than grumbling +Fat men/women were never intended for this sort of exhibition +Feeding together in a large room must be a little humiliating +Fish, they seemed to say, are not so easily caught as men +Florid man, who "swelled" in, patronizing the entire room +Hated a fellow that was always in high spirits +Irresponsibility of hotel life +It is a kind of information I have learned to dispense with +It's an occupation for a man to keep up a cottage +Let me be unhappy now and then, and not say anything about it +Live, in short, rather more for one's self than for society +Loftily condescending +Lunch was dinner and that dinner was supper +Man in love is poor company for himself and for everybody else +Nearsighted, you know, about seeing people that are not +Not to care about anything you do care about +Notion of duty has to account for much of the misery in life +People who haven't so many corners as our people have +People who leave home on purpose to grumble +Pet dogs of all degrees of ugliness +Satisfy the average taste without the least aid from art +Seemed only a poor imitation of pleasure +Shrinking little man, whose whole appearance was an apology +Small frame houses hopelessly decorated with scroll-work +So many swearing colors +Thinking of themselves and the effect they are producing +Vanishing shades of an attractive and consolable grief +Women are cruelest when they set out to be kind +Wore their visible exclusiveness like a garment +Young ones who know what is best for the elders + + + + +LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD + +Absurd to be so interested in fictitious trouble +And in this way I crawled out of the discussion, as usual +Anything can be borne if he knows that he shall see her tomorrow +Clubs and circles +Democracy is intolerant of variations from the general level +Do you think so? +Eagerness to acquire the money of other people, not to make it +Easier to be charitable than to be just +Everybody has read it +Great deal of mind, it takes him so long to make it up +How much good do you suppose condescending charity does? +In youth, as at the opera, everything seems possible +It is so easy to turn life into a comedy! +It is so painful to shrink, and so delightful to grow! +Knew how roughly life handles all youthful enthusiasms +Liberty to indulge in republican simplicity +Much easier to forgive a failure than a success +Not the use of money, but of the use money makes of you +One thing to entertain and another to be entertaining +Possessory act of readjusting my necktie +Process which is called weighing a thing in the mind +Simple enjoyment being considered an unworthy motive +Society that exists mainly to pay its debts gets stupid +Talk is always tame if no one dares anything +Tastes and culture were of the past age +Unhappy are they whose desires are all ratified +World has become so tolerant that it doesn't care + + + + +THE GOLDEN HOUSE + +Absolutely necessary that the world should be amused +Affectation of familiarity +Air of determined enjoyment +Always did what he said he would do +Desire to do something rather than the desire to make something +Don't know what it's all for--I doubt if there is much in it +Easier to make art fashionable than to make fashion artistic +Emanation of aggressive prosperity +Everybody is superficially educated +Grateful for her forbearance of verbal expression +Happy life: an income left, not earned by toil +Her very virtues are enemies of her peace +How little a thing can make a woman happy +Human vanity will feed on anything within its reach +If one man wins, somebody else has got to lose +Knew how to be confidential without disclosing anything +Long-established habits of aversion or forbearance +Moral hazard bravely incurred in the duty of knowing life +Nature is such a beautiful painter of wood +No confidences are possible outside of that relation +No one expected anything, and no one was disappointed +No such thing as a cheap yacht +Ordering and eating the right sort of lunch +Pitiful about habitual hypocrisy is that it never deceives anybody +"Squares," where the poor children get their idea of forests +To be commanded with such gentleness was a sort of luxury +Was getting to be the fashion; but now it's fashionable +Whatever he disclosed was always in confidence +World requires a great variety of people to keep it going + + + + +THAT FORTUNE + +Artist who cannot paint a rail-fence cannot paint a pyramid +Best things for us in this world are the things we don't get +Big subject does not make a big writer +Bud will never come to flower if you pull it in pieces +Do you know what it is to want what you don't want? +Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them +Freedom to excel in nothing +Had gained everything he wanted in life except happiness +Indefeasible right of the public to have news +Intellectual poverty +Known something if I hadn't been kept at school +Longing is one thing and reason another +Making himself instead of in making money +Mediocrity of the amazing art product +Never go fishing without both fly and bait +Nothing like it certainly had happened to anybody +Object was to win a case rather than to do justice in a case +Public that gets tired of anything in about three days +Remaining enjoyment is the indulgence of frank speech +Sell your manuscripts, but don't sell your soul +Success is often a misfortune +Summer days that come but to go +There isn't much to feel here except what you see +Things that are self-evident nobody seems to see +Vanity at the bottom of even a reasonable ambition +We confound events with causes +What is society for? + + + + +AS WE WERE SAYING + +Absorption in self +American pronunciation of the letter 'a' a reproach to the Republic +Annual good intentions +Art of listening and the art of talking both being lost +Attempt to fill up our minds as if they were jars +Barbarians of civilization +Blessed are those that expect nothing +But is it true that a woman is ever really naturalized? +Ceased to relish the act of studying +Content with the superficial +Could play anybody else's hand better than his own +Culture is certain to mock itself in time +Disease of conformity +Disposition of people to shift labor on to others' shoulders +Do not like to be insulted with originality +Eve trusted the serpent, and Adam trusted Eve +Fit for nothing else, they can at least write +Good form to be enthusiastic and not disgraceful to be surprised +Housecleaning, that riot of cleanliness which men fear +Idle desire to be busy without doing anything +Imagining that the more noise there is in the room the better +Imitativeness of the race +Insist that he shall admire at the point of the social bayonet +It is beautiful to witness our reliance upon others +Lady intending suicide always throw on a waterproof +Let it be common, and what distinction will there be in it? +Man's inability to "match" anything is notorious +Needs no reason if fashion or authority condemns it +Nothing is so easy to bear as the troubles of other people +Passion for display is implanted in human nature +Platitudinous is to be happy? +Reader, who has enough bad weather in his private experience +Seldom that in her own house a lady gets a chance to scream +Taste usually implies a sort of selection +To read anything or study anything we resort to a club +Vast flocks of sheep over the satisfying plain of mediocrity +Vitality of a fallacy is incalculable +Want our literature (or what passes for that) in light array +We move in spirals, if not in circles + + + + +AS WE GO + +Agreeable people are pretty evenly distributed over the country +As wealth is attained the capacity of enjoying it departs +Assertive sort of smartness that was very disagreeable +Attention to his personal appearance is only spasmodic +Boy who is a man before he is an infant +Bringing a man to her feet, where he belongs +Chief object in life is to "get there" quickly +Climate which is rather worse now than before the scientists +Content: not wanting that we can get +Excuse is found for nearly every moral delinquency +Frivolous old woman fighting to keep the skin-deep beauty +Granted that woman is the superior being +Held to strict responsibility for her attractiveness +History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions +Hot arguments are usually the bane of conversation +Idleness seems to be the last accomplishment of civilization +Insists upon applying everywhere the yardstick of his own local +It is not enough to tell the truth (that has been told before) +Knows more than he will ever know again +Land where things are so much estimated by what they cost +Listen appreciatingly even if deceivingly +Man and wife are one, and that one is the husband +Mean more by its suggestions and allusions than is said +Must we be always either vapid or serious? +Newspaper-made person +No power on earth that can prevent the return of the long skirt +No room for a leisure class that is not useful +Persistence of privilege is an unexplained thing in human affairs +Poor inhabitants living along only from habit +Repose in activity +Responsibility of attractiveness +Responsible for all the mischief her attractiveness produces +Rights cannot all be on one side and the duties on the other +Servile imitation of nature degrades art +They have worn off the angular corners of existence +They who build without woman build in vain +Those who use their time merely to kill it +Trying to escape winter when we are not trying to escape summer +Use their time merely to kill it +Want of toleration of sectional peculiarities +Wantonly sincere +We are already too near most people +Woman can usually quote accurately + + + + +NINE SHORT ESSAYS + + A Night in the Garden of the Tuilleries + Truthfulness + The Pursuit of Happiness + Literature and the Stage + The Life-saving and Life Prolonging Art + "H.H." in Southern California + Simplicity + The English Volunteers During the Late Invasion + Nathan Hale + +Affection for the old-fashioned, all-round country doctor +Applauds what would have blushed at a few years ago +Architectural measles in this country +Avoid comparisons, similes, and even too much use of metaphor +Book a window, through which I am to see life +Cannot be truthfulness about life without knowledge +Contemporary play instead of character we have "characters," +Disposition to make the best of whatever comes to us +Do not habitually postpone that season of happiness +Dwelling here. And here content to dwell +Explainable, if not justifiable +Eye demands simple lines, proportion, harmony in mass, dignity +Happiness is an inner condition, not to be raced after +Instead of simply being happy in the condition where we are +Lawyers will divide the oyster between them +Make a newspaper to suit the public +Making the journey of this life with just baggage enough +Moral specialist, who has only one hobby +Name an age that has cherished more delusions than ours +No amount of failure seems to lessen this belief +No man can count himself happy while in this life +No satisfaction in gaining more than we personally want +Not the thing itself, but the pursuit, that is an illusion +Profession which demands so much self-sacrifice +Proprietary medicine business is popular ignorance and credulity +"Purely vegetable" seem most suitable to the wooden-heads +Relapsing into the tawdry and the over-ornamented +Secrecy or low origin of the remedy that is its attraction +Simplicity: This is the stamp of all enduring work +Thinks he may be exempt from the general rules +Treated the patient, as the phrase is, for all he was worth +Unrelieved realism is apt to give a false impression +Warm up to the doctor when the judgment Day heaves in view +Yankee ingenuity,--he "could do anything but spin," + + + + +FASHIONS IN LITERATURE + +Discrimination between the manifold shadings of insincerity +Great deal of the reading done is mere contagion +His own tastes and prejudices the standard of his judgment +Inability to keep up with current literature +Main object of life is not to keep up with the printing-press +Man who is past the period of business activity +Never to read a book until it is from one to five years old +Quietly putting himself on common ground with his reader +Simplicity +Slovenly literature, unrebuked and uncorrected +Suggestion rather than by commandment +Unenlightened popular preference for a book +Waste precious time in chasing meteoric appearances + + + + +AMERICAN NEWSPAPER + +American newspaper is susceptible of some improvement +Borderland between literature and common sense +Casualties as the chief news +Continue to turn round when there is no grist to grind +Elevates the trivial in life above the essential +If it does not pay its owner, it is valueless to the public +Looking for something spicy and sensational +Most newspapers cost more than they sell for +Newspaper's object is to make money for its owner +Power, the opportunity, the duty, the "mission," of the press +Public craves eagerly for only one thing at a time +Quotations of opinions as news +Should be a sharp line drawn between the report and the editorial + + + + +DIVERSITIES OF AMERICAN LIFE + +It appears, therefore, that speed,--the ability to move rapidly from +place to place,--a disproportionate reward of physical over intellectual +science, an intense desire to be rich, which is strong enough to compel +even education to grind in the mill of the Philistines, and an inordinate +elevation in public consideration of rich men simply because they are +rich, are characteristics of this little point of time on which we stand. +They are not the only characteristics; in a reasonably optimistic view, +the age is distinguished for unexampled achievements, and for +opportunities for the well-being of humanity never before in all history +attainable. But these characteristics are so prominent as to beget the +fear that we are losing the sense of the relative value of things in this +life. + + + + +PILGRIM AND AMERICAN + +What republics have most to fear is the rule of the boss, who is a tyrant +without responsibility. He makes the nominations, he dickers and trades +for the elections, and at the end he divides the spoils. The operation +is more uncertain than a horse race, which is not decided by the speed of +the horses, but by the state of the wagers and the manipulation of the +jockeys. We strike directly at his power for mischief when we organize +the entire civil service of the nation and of the States on capacity, +integrity, experience, and not on political power. + +And if we look further, considering the danger of concentration of power +in irresponsible hands, we see a new cause for alarm in undue federal +mastery and interference. + +Poverty is not commonly a nurse of virtue, long continued, it is a +degeneration. It is almost as difficult for the very poor man to be +virtuous as for the very rich man; and very good and very rich at the +same time, says Socrates, a man cannot be. It is a great people that can +withstand great prosperity + +We are in no vain chase of an equality which would eliminate all +individual initiative, and check all progress, by ignoring differences of +capacity and strength, and rating muscles equal to brains. But we are in +pursuit of equal laws, and a fairer chance of leading happy lives than +humanity in general ever had yet. + + + + +CAUSES OF DISCONTENT + +Now, content does not depend so much upon a man's actual as his relative +condition. Often it is not so much what I need, as what others have that +disturbs me. I should be content to walk from Boston to New York, and be +a fortnight on the way, if everybody else was obliged to walk who made +that journey. It becomes a hardship when my neighbor is whisked over the +route in six hours and I have to walk. It would still be a hardship if +he attained the ability to go in an hour, when I was only able to +accomplish the distance in six hours. + +It ought to be said, as to the United States, that a very considerable +part of the discontent is imported, it is not native, nor based on any +actual state of things existing here. Agitation has become a business. +A great many men and some women, to whom work of any sort is distasteful, +live by it. + +Compared with the freedom of action in such a government as ours, any +form of communism is an iniquitous and meddlesome despotism. + +Doubtless men might have been created equal to each other in every +respect, with the same mental capacity, the same physical ability, with +like inheritances of good or bad qualities, and born into exactly similar +conditions, and not dependent on each other. But men never were so +created and born, so far as we have any record of them, and by analogy we +have no reason to suppose that they ever will be. Inequality is the most +striking fact in life. Absolute equality might be better, but so far as +we can see, the law of the universe is infinite diversity in unity; and +variety in condition is the essential of what we call progress--it is, in +fact, life. + +It sometimes seems as if half the American people were losing the power +to apply logical processes to the ordinary affairs of life. + +It is human nature, it is the lesson of history, that real wrongs, +unredressed, grow into preposterous demands. Men are much like nature in +action; a little disturbance of atmospheric equilibrium becomes a +cyclone, a slight break in the levee a crevasse with immense destructive +power. + + + + +EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO + +But slavery brought about one result, and that the most difficult in the +development of a race from savagery, and especially a tropical race, a +race that has always been idle in the luxuriance of a nature that +supplied its physical needs with little labor. It taught the negro to +work, it transformed him, by compulsion it is true, into an industrial +being, and held him in the habit of industry for several generations. +Perhaps only force could do this, for it was a radical transformation. +I am glad to see that this result of slavery is recognized by Mr. Booker +Washington, the ablest and most clear-sighted leader the Negro race has +ever had. + +Conceit of gentility of which the world has already enough. + +It is this character, quality, habit, the result of a slow educational +process, which distinguishes one race from another. It is this that the +race transmits, and not the more or less accidental education of a decade +or an era. The Brahmins carry this idea into the next life, and say that +the departing spirit carries with him nothing except this individual +character, no acquirements or information or extraneous culture. It was +perhaps in the same spirit that the sad preacher in Ecclesiastes said +there is no "knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest." It +is by this character that we classify civilized and even semi-civilized +races; by this slowly developed fibre, this slow accumulation of inherent +quality in the evolution of the human being from lower to higher, that +continues to exist notwithstanding the powerful influence of governments +and religions. + + + + +INDETERMINATE SENTENCE + +The proposed method is the indeterminate sentence. This strikes directly +at the criminal class. It puts that class beyond the power of continuing +its depredations upon society. It is truly deterrent, because it is a +notification to any one intending to enter upon that method of living +that his career ends with his first felony. As to the general effects of +the indeterminate sentence, I will repeat here what I recently wrote for +the Yale Law Journal. + +It happens, therefore, that there is great sympathy with the career of +the lawbreakers, many people are hanging on them for support, and among +them the so-called criminal lawyers. Any legislation likely to interfere +seriously with the occupation of the criminal class or with its increase +is certain to meet with the opposition of a large body of voters. With +this active opposition of those interested, and the astonishing +indifference of the general public, it is easy to see why so little is +done to relieve us of this intolerable burden. The fact is, we go on +increasing our expenses for police, for criminal procedure, for jails and +prisons, and we go on increasing the criminal class and those affiliated +with it. + +I will suggest that the convict should, for his own sake, have the +indeterminate sentence applied to him upon conviction of his first penal +offense. He is much more likely to reform then than he would be after he +had had a term in the State prison and was again convicted, and the +chance of his reformation would be lessened by each subsequent experience +of this kind. The great object of the indeterminate sentence, so far as +the security of society is concerned, is to diminish the number of the +criminal class, and this will be done when it is seen that the first +felony a man commits is likely to be his last, and that for a young +criminal contemplating this career there is in this direction: +"No Thoroughfare." + +It is very significant that the criminal class adapted itself readily to +the parole system with its sliding scale. It was natural that this +should be so, for it fits in perfectly well with their scheme of life. +This is to them a sort of business career, interrupted now and then only +by occasional limited periods of seclusion. Any device that shall +shorten those periods is welcome to them. As a matter of fact, we see in +the State prisons that the men most likely to shorten their time by good +behavior, and to get released on parole before the expiration of their +sentence, are the men who make crime their career. They accept this +discipline as a part of their lot in life, and it does not interfere with +their business any more than the occasional bankruptcy of a merchant +interferes with his pursuits. + +No tribunal is able with justice to mete out punishment in any individual +case, for probably the same degree of guilt does not attach to two men in +the violation of the same statute. + +It is purely an economic and educational problem, and must rest upon the +same principles that govern in any successful industry, or in education, +and that we recognize in the conduct of life. That little progress has +been made is due to public indifference to a vital question and to the +action of sentimentalists, who, in their philanthropic zeal; fancy that a +radical reform can come without radical discipline. We are largely +wasting our energies in petty contrivances instead of striking at the +root of the evil. + + + + +LITERARY COPYRIGHT + +It is the habit of some publishing houses, not of all, let me distinctly +say, to seek always notoriety, not to nurse and keep before the public +mind the best that has been evolved from time to time, but to offer +always something new. The year's flooring is threshed off and the floor +swept to make room for a fresh batch. Effort eventually ceases for the +old and approved, and is concentrated on experiments. This is like the +conduct of a newspaper. It is assumed that the public must be startled +all the time. + +Consider first the author, and I mean the author, and not the mere +craftsman who manufactures books for a recognized market. His sole +capital is his talent. His brain may be likened to a mine, gold, silver, +copper, iron, or tin, which looks like silver when new. Whatever it is, +the vein of valuable ore is limited, in most cases it is slight. When it +is worked out, the man is at the end of his resources. + +It is generally conceded that what literature in America needs at this +moment is honest, competent, sound criticism. This is not likely to be +attained by sporadic efforts, especially in a democracy of letters where +the critics are not always superior to the criticised, where the man in +front of the book is not always a better marksman than the man behind the +book. + +The fashion of the day is rarely the judgment of posterity. You will +recall what Byron wrote to Coleridge: "I trust you do not permit yourself +to be depressed by the temporary partiality of what is called 'the +public' for the favorites of the moment; all experience is against the +permanency of such impressions. You must have lived to see many of these +pass away, and will survive many more." + + + + +LITERATURE AND LIFE + +All the world is diseased and in need of remedies +Arrive at the meaning by the definition of exclusion +Care of riches should have the last place in our thoughts +Each in turn contends that his art produces the greatest good +Impress and reduce to obsequious deference the hotel clerk +Opinions inherited, not formed +Prejudice working upon ignorance +Pursuit of office--which is sometimes called politics +Rab and his Friends +Refuge of the aged in failing activity +Riches and rich men are honored in the state +Set aside as literature that which is original +To the lawyer everybody is or ought to be a litigant +Touching hopefulness +Very rich and very good at the same time he cannot be +Want of the human mind which is higher than the want of knowledge +What we call life is divided into occupations and interest +Without Plato there would be no Socrates + + + + +EQUALITY + +In accordance with the advice of Diogenes of Apollonia in the beginning +of his treatise on Natural Philosophy--"It appears to me to be well for +every one who commences any sort of philosophical treatise to lay down +some undeniable principle to start with"--we offer this: "All men are +created unequal." It would be a most interesting study to trace the +growth in the world of the doctrine of "equality." + +Every one talked of "the state of nature" as if he knew all about it. +"The conditions of primitive man," says Mr. Morley, "were discussed by +very incompetent ladies and gentlemen at convivial supper-parties, and +settled with complete assurance." That was the age when solitary +Frenchmen plunged into the wilderness of North America, confidently +expecting to recover the golden age under the shelter of a wigwam and in +the society of a squaw. + +It is to be noticed that rights are mentioned, but not duties, and that +if political rights only are meant, political duties are not inculcated +as of equal moment. It is not announced that political power is a +function to be discharged for the good of the whole body, and not a mere +right to be enjoyed for the advantage of the possessor; and it is to be +noted also that this idea did not enter into the conception of Rousseau. + +We are attempting the regeneration of society with a misleading phrase; +we are wasting our time with a theory that does not fit the facts. + + + + +WHAT IS YOUR CULTURE TO ME + +It is not an unreasonable demand of the majority that the few who have +the advantages of the training of college and university should exhibit +the breadth and sweetness of a generous culture, and should shed +everywhere that light which ennobles common things, and without which +life is like one of the old landscapes in which the artist forgot to put +sunlight. One of the reasons why the college-bred man does not meet this +reasonable expectation is that his training, too often, has not been +thorough and conscientious, it has not been of himself; he has acquired, +but he is not educated. Another is that, if he is educated, he is not +impressed with the intimacy of his relation to that which is below him as +well as that which is above him, and his culture is out of sympathy with +the great mass that needs it, and must have it, or it will remain a blind +force in the world, the lever of demagogues who preach social anarchy and +misname it progress. + +Let him not be discouraged at his apparent little influence, even though +every sally of every young life may seem like a forlorn hope. No man can +see the whole of the battle. + +To suggest remedies is much more difficult than to see evils; but the +comprehension of dangers is the first step towards mastering them. + + + + +MODERN FICTION + +One of the worst characteristics of modern fiction is its so-called truth +to nature. For fiction is an art, as painting is, as sculpture is, as +acting is. A photograph of a natural object is not art; nor is the +plaster cast of a man's face, nor is the bare setting on the stage of an +actual occurrence. Art requires an idealization of nature. The amateur, +though she may be a lady, who attempts to represent upon the stage the +lady of the drawing-room, usually fails to convey to the spectators the +impression of a lady. She lacks the art by which the trained actress, +who may not be a lady, succeeds. The actual transfer to the stage of the +drawing-room and its occupants, with the behavior common in well-bred +society, would no doubt fail of the intended dramatic effect, and the +spectators would declare the representation unnatural. + +Tragedy and the pathos of failure have their places in literature as well +as in life. I only say that, artistically, a good ending is as proper as +a bad ending. + +Perhaps the most inane thing ever put forth in the name of literature is +the so-called domestic novel, an indigestible, culinary sort of product, +that might be named the doughnut of fiction. The usual apology for it is +that it depicts family life with fidelity. Its characters are supposed +to act and talk as people act and talk at home and in society. I trust +this is a libel, but, for the sake of the argument, suppose they do. Was +ever produced so insipid a result? + +The characteristics which are prominent, when we think of our recent +fiction, are a wholly unidealized view of human society, which has got +the name of realism; a delight in representing the worst phases of social +life; an extreme analysis of persons and motives; the sacrifice of action +to psychological study; the substitution of studies of character for +anything like a story; a notion that it is not artistic, and that it is +untrue to nature, to bring any novel to a definite consummation, and +especially to end it happily; and a despondent tone about society, +politics, and the whole drift of modern life. Judged by our fiction, we +are in an irredeemably bad way. + +The vulgar realism in pictorial art, which holds ugliness and beauty in +equal esteem; or against aestheticism gone to seed in languid +affectations; or against the enthusiasm of a social life which wreaks its +religion on the color of a vestment, or sighs out its divine soul over an +ancient pewter mug. + + + + +MR. FROUDE'S PROGRESS + +For, as skepticism is in one sense the handmaid of truth, discontent is +the mother of progress. The man is comparatively of little use in the +world who is contented. + +Education of the modern sort unsettles the peasant, renders him unfit for +labor, and gives us a half-educated idler in place of a conscientious +workman. + +Education must go forward; the man must not be half but wholly educated. +It is only half-knowledge like half-training in a trade that is +dangerous. + +Mr. Froude runs lightly over a list of subjects upon which the believer +in progress relies for his belief, and then says of them that the world +calls this progress--he calls it only change. + +There are some select souls who sit apart in calm endurance, waiting to +be translated out of a world they are almost tired of patronizing, to +whom the whole thing seems, doubtless, like a cheap performance. They +sit on the fence of criticism, and cannot for the life of them see what +the vulgar crowd make such a toil and sweat about. + + + + +ENGLAND + +Both parties, however, like parties elsewhere, propose and oppose +measures and movements, and accept or reject policies, simply to get +office or keep office. + +In the judgment of many good observers, a dissolution of the empire, so +far as the Western colonies are concerned, is inevitable, unless Great +Britain, adopting the plan urged by Franklin, becomes an imperial +federation, with parliaments distinct and independent, the crown the only +bond of union--the crown, and not the English parliament, being the +titular and actual sovereign. Sovereign power over America in the +parliament Franklin never would admit. + +It is safe, we think, to say that if the British Empire is to be +dissolved, disintegration cannot be permitted to begin at home. Ireland +has always been a thorn in the side of England. And the policy towards +it could not have been much worse, either to impress it with a respect +for authority or to win it by conciliation; it has been a strange mixture +of untimely concession and untimely cruelty. The problem, in fact, has +physical and race elements that make it almost insolvable. A water-logged +country, of which nothing can surely be predicted but the uncertainty +of its harvests, inhabited by a people of most peculiar mental +constitution, alien in race, temperament, and religion, having +scarcely one point of sympathy with the English. + + + + +NOVEL AND SCHOOL + +Note the seeming anomaly of a scientific age peculiarly credulous; the +ease with which any charlatan finds followers; the common readiness to +fall in with any theory of progress which appeals to the sympathies, and +to accept the wildest notions of social reorganization. We should be +obliged to note also, among scientific men themselves, a disposition to +come to conclusions on inadequate evidence--a disposition usually due to +one-sided education which lacks metaphysical training and the philosophic +habit. + +Often children have only one book even of this sort, at which they are +kept until they learn it through by heart, and they have been heard to +"read" it with the book bottom side up or shut! All these books +cultivate inattention and intellectual vacancy. They are--the best of +them--only reading exercises; and reading is not perceived to have any +sort of value. The child is not taught to think, and not a step is taken +in informing him of his relation to the world about him. His education +is not begun. + +The lower-grade books are commonly inane (I will not say childish, for +that is a libel on the open minds of children) beyond description. + +The novel, mediocre, banal, merely sensational, and worthless for any +purpose of intellectual stimulus or elevation of the ideal, is thus +encouraged in this age as it never was before. The making of novels has +become a process of manufacture. Usually, after the fashion of the +silk-weavers of Lyons, they are made for the central establishment on +individual looms at home. + +An honest acceptance of the law of gravitation would banish many popular +delusions; a comprehension that something cannot be made out of nothing +would dispose of others; and the application of the ordinary principles +of evidence, such as men require to establish a title to property, would +end most of the remaining. + +When the trash does not sell, the trash will not be produced, and those +who are only capable of supplying the present demand will perhaps find a +more useful occupation. It will be again evident that literature is not +a trade, but an art requiring peculiar powers and patient training. When +people know how to read, authors will need to know how to write. + + + + +FOR WHOM SHAKESPEARE WROTE + +Any parish which let a thief escape was fined +Beer making +Capable of weeping like children, and of dying like men +Complaint then, as now, that in many trades men scamped their work +Courageous gentlemen wore in their ears rings of gold and stones +Credulity and superstition of the age +Devil's liquor, I mean starch +Down a peg +Dramas which they considered as crude as they were coarse +Eve will be Eve, though Adam would say nay +Italy generally a curious custom of using a little fork for meat +Landlord let no one depart dissatisfied with his bill +Mistake ribaldry and loquacity for wit and wisdom +Pillows were thought meet only for sick women +Portuguese receipts +Prepare bills of fare (a trick lately taken up) +Sir Francis Bacon +So much cost upon the body, so little upon souls +Stagecoach +Teeth black--a defect the English seem subject to + + + + +ON HORSEBACK + +Anxious to reach it, we were glad to leave it +Establishment had the air of taking care of itself +Fond of lawsuits seems a characteristic of an isolated people +It is not much use to try to run a jail without liquor +Man's success in court depended upon the length of his purse +Married? No, she hoped not +Monument of procrastination +Not much inclination to change his clothes or his cabin +One has to dodge this sort of question +Ornamentation is apt to precede comfort in our civilization +What a price to pay for mere life! + + + + +BEING A BOY + +Appear to be very active, and yet not do much +As they forgot they were a party, they began to enjoy themselves +As you get used to being a boy, you have to be something else +Boys have a great power of helping each other to do nothing +Conversation ran aground again +Expected nothing that he did not earn +Fed the poor boy's vanity, the weakness by which women govern +Felt wronged, and worked himself up to pass a wretched evening +Girls have a great deal more good sense in such matters than boys +Gladly do all the work if somebody else would do the chores +He is, like a barrel of beer, always on draft +Law will not permit men to shoot each other in plain clothes +Natural genius for combining pleasure with business +Not very disagreeable, or would not be if it were play +People hardly ever do know where to be born until it is too late +Spider-web is stronger than a cable +Undemonstrative affection +Very busy about nothing +Wearisome part is the waiting on the people who do the work +Why did n't the people who were sleepy go to bed? +Willing to do any amount of work if it is called play +Willing to repent if he could think of anything to repent of + + + + +SAUNTERINGS + +Bane of travel is the destruction of illusions +Discontent of those who travel to enjoy themselves +Excellent but somewhat scattered woman +Inability to stand still for one second is the plague of it +Leaves it with mingled feelings about Columbus +One ought not to subject his faith to too great a strain + + + + +POCAHONTAS + +According to the long-accepted story of Pocahontas, she did something +more than interfere to save from barbarous torture and death a stranger +and a captive, who had forfeited his life by shooting those who opposed +his invasion. In all times, among the most savage tribes and in +civilized society, women have been moved to heavenly pity by the sight of +a prisoner, and risked life to save him--the impulse was as natural to a +Highland lass as to an African maid. Pocahontas went further than +efforts to make peace between the superior race and her own. When the +whites forced the Indians to contribute from their scanty stores to the +support of the invaders, and burned their dwellings and shot them on +sight if they refused, the Indian maid sympathized with the exposed +whites and warned them of stratagems against them; captured herself by a +base violation of the laws of hospitality, she was easily reconciled to +her situation, adopted the habits of the foreigners, married one of her +captors, and in peace and in war cast in her lot with the strangers. +History has not preserved for us the Indian view of her conduct. + +This savage was the Tomocomo spoken of above, who had been sent by +Powhatan to take a census of the people of England, and report what they +and their state were. At Plymouth he got a long stick and began to make +notches in it for the people he saw. But he was quickly weary of that +task. He told Smith that Powhatan bade him seek him out, and get him to +show him his God, and the King, Queen, and Prince, of whom Smith had told +so much. Smith put him off about showing his God, but said he had heard +that he had seen the King. This the Indian denied, James probably not +coming up to his idea of a king, till by circumstances he was convinced +he had seen him. Then he replied very sadly: "You gave Powhatan a white +dog, which Powhatan fed as himself, but your king gave me nothing, and I +am better than your white dog." + +Sir Thomas Dale was on the whole the most efficient and discreet Governor +the colony had had. One element of his success was no doubt the change +in the charter. By the first charter everything had been held in common +by the company, and there had been no division of property or allotment +of land among the colonists. Under the new regime land was held in +severalty, and the spur of individual interest began at once to improve +the condition of the settlement. The character of the colonists was also +gradually improving. They had not been of a sort to fulfill the earnest +desire of the London promoter's to spread vital piety in the New World. +A zealous defense of Virginia and Maryland, against "scandalous +imputation," entitled "Leah and Rachel; or, The Two Fruitful Sisters," by +Mr John Hammond, London, considers the charges that Virginia "is an +unhealthy place, a nest of rogues, abandoned women, dissolute and rookery +persons; a place of intolerable labour, bad usage and hard diet"; and +admits that "at the first settling, and for many years after, it deserved +most of these aspersions, nor were they then aspersions but truths. +There were jails supplied, youth seduced, infamous women drilled in, the +provision all brought out of England, and that embezzled by the +Trustees." + + + + +CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH + +After fifteen years Smith is able to remember more details +Assertion in an insecure position +Cheaper credited than confuted +Entertaining if one did not see too much of him +Knew not the secret of having his own way +Long stick and began to make notches in it for the people he saw +Making religion their color +Peculiarly subject to such coincidences +Prince's mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse +Progressive memory +Somewhat damaging to an estimate of his originality +Thames had no bridges +Those that did not work should not eat +Tobacco-selling +Wanted advancement but were unwilling to adventure their ease +Would if he could +Writ too much, and done too little + + + + +SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND + +Then follows a day of bright sun and blue sky. The birds open the +morning with a lively chorus. In spite of Auster, Euroclydon, low +pressure, and the government bureau, things have gone forward. By the +roadside, where the snow has just melted, the grass is of the color of +emerald. The heart leaps to see it. On the lawn there are twenty +robins, lively, noisy, worm-seeking. Their yellow breasts contrast with +the tender green of the newly-springing clover and herd's-grass. If they +would only stand still, we might think the dandelions had blossomed. On +an evergreen-bough, looking at them, sits a graceful bird, whose back is +bluer than the sky. There is a red tint on the tips of the boughs of the +hard maple. With Nature, color is life. See, already, green, yellow, +blue, red! In a few days--is it not so?--through the green masses of the +trees will flash the orange of the oriole, the scarlet of the tanager; +perhaps tomorrow. + +But, in fact, the next day opens a little sourly. It is almost clear +overhead: but the clouds thicken on the horizon; they look leaden; they +threaten rain. It certainly will rain: the air feels like rain, or snow. +By noon it begins to snow, and you hear the desolate cry of the +phoebe-bird. It is a fine snow, gentle at first; but it soon drives in +swerving lines, for the wind is from the southwest, from the west, from the +northeast, from the zenith (one of the ordinary winds of New England), +from all points of the compass. The fine snow becomes rain; it becomes +large snow; it melts as it falls; it freezes as it falls. At last a +storm sets in, and night shuts down upon the bleak scene. + +During the night there is a change. It thunders and lightens. Toward +morning there is a brilliant display of aurora borealis. This is a sign +of colder weather. + +The gardener is in despair; so is the sportsman. The trout take no +pleasure in biting in such weather. + +Paragraphs appear in the newspapers, copied from the paper of last year, +saying that this is the most severe spring in thirty years. Every one, +in fact, believes that it is, and also that next year the spring will be +early. Man is the most gullible of creatures. + +And with reason: he trusts his eyes, and not his instinct. During this +most sour weather of the year, the anemone blossoms; and, almost +immediately after, the fairy pencil, the spring beauty, the dog-tooth +violet, and the true violet. In clouds and fog, and rain and snow, and +all discouragement, Nature pushes on her forces with progressive haste +and rapidity. Before one is aware, all the lawns and meadows are deeply +green, the trees are opening their tender leaves. In a burst of sunshine +the cherry-trees are white, the Judas-tree is pink, the hawthorns give a +sweet smell. The air is full of sweetness; the world, of color. + +In the midst of a chilling northeast storm the ground is strewed with the +white-and-pink blossoms from the apple-trees. The next day the mercury +stands at eighty degrees. Summer has come. + +There was no Spring. + +The winter is over. You think so? Robespierre thought the Revolution +was over in the beginning of his last Thermidor. He lost his head after +that. + +When the first buds are set, and the corn is up, and the cucumbers have +four leaves, a malicious frost steals down from the north and kills them +in a night. + +That is the last effort of spring. The mercury then mounts to ninety +degrees. The season has been long, but, on the whole, successful. Many +people survive it. + + + + +IN THE WILDERNESS + +According to the compass, the Lord only knew where I was +Business of civilization to tame or kill +Canopy of mosquitoes +Caricature of a road +Compass, which was made near Greenwich, was wrong +Democrats became as scarce as moose in the Adirondacks +Everlasting dress-parade of our civilization +Grand intentions and weak vocabulary +How lightly past hardship sits upon us! +I hain't no business here; but here I be! +Kept its distance, as only a mountain can +Man's noblest faculty, his imagination, or credulity. +Marriage is mostly for discipline +Misery, unheroic and humiliating +Near-sighted man, whose glasses the rain rendered useless +No conceit like that of isolation +No nervousness, but simply a reasonable desire to get there +Not lost, but gone before +Posthumous fear +Procession of unattainable meals stretched before me +Sense to shun the doctor; to lie down in some safe place +Solitude and every desirable discomfort +Stumbled against an ill-placed tree +Suffering when unaccompanied by resignation +Ten times harder to unlearn anything than it is to learn it +There is an impassive, stolid brutality about the woods + + + + +BADDECK + +Best part of going to sea is keeping close to the shore +Can leave it without regret +Dependent upon imagination and memory +Great part of the enjoyment of life +Luxury of his romantic grief +Picturesque sort of dilapidation +Rest is never complete--unless he can see somebody else at work +Won't see Mt. Desert till midnight, and then you won't + + + + +BACKLOG STUDIES + +A good many things have gone out with the fire on the hearth +Abatement of a snow-storm that grows to exceptional magnitude +Anywhere a happier home than ours? I am glad of it! +Associate ourselves to make everybody else behave as we do. +Chilly drafts and sarcasms on what we call the temperate zone +Criticism by comparison is the refuge of incapables +Crowning human virtue in a man is to let his wife poke the fire +Don't know what success is +Each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance +Enjoyed poor health +Enthusiasm is a sign of inexperience, of ignorance +Fallen into the days of conformity +Few people know how to make a wood-fire +Finding the world disagreeable to themselves +Have almost succeeded in excluding pure air +Just as good as the real +Lived himself out of the world +Long score of personal flattery to pay off +Not half so reasonable as my prejudices +Pathos overcomes one's sense of the absurdity of such people +Permit the freedom of silence +Poetical reputation of the North American Indian +Point of breeding never to speak of anything in your house +Reformers manage to look out for themselves tolerably well +Refuge of mediocrity +Rest beyond the grave will not be much change for him +Said, or if I have not, I say it again +Severe attack of spiritism +Shares none of their uneasiness about getting on in life +Silence is unnoticed when people sit before a fire +Some men you always prefer to have on your left hand +Sort of busy idleness among men +There are no impossibilities to youth and inexperience +Things are apt to remain pretty much the same +Think the world they live in is the central one +To-day is like yesterday, +Usual effect of an anecdote on conversation +Women know how to win by losing +World owes them a living because they are philanthropists + + + + +SUMMER IN A GARDEN + +But I found him, one Sunday morning,--a day when it would not do to get +angry, tying his cow at the foot of the hill; the beast all the time +going on in that abominable voice. I told the man that I could not have +the cow in the grounds. He said, "All right, boss;" but he did not go +away. I asked him to clear out. The man, who is a French sympathizer +from the Republic of Ireland, kept his temper perfectly. He said he +wasn't doing anything, just feeding his cow a bit: he wouldn't make me +the least trouble in the world. I reminded him that he had been told +again and again not to come here; that he might have all the grass, but +he should not bring his cow upon the premises. The imperturbable man +assented to everything that I said, and kept on feeding his cow. Before +I got him to go to fresh scenes and pastures new, the Sabbath was almost +broken; but it was saved by one thing: it is difficult to be emphatic +when no one is emphatic on the other side. The man and his cow have +taught me a great lesson, which I shall recall when I keep a cow. I can +recommend this cow, if anybody wants one, as a steady boarder, whose +keeping will cost the owner little; but, if her milk is at all like her +voice, those who drink it are on the straight road to lunacy. + +Moral Truth.--I have no doubt that grapes taste best in other people's +mouths. It is an old notion that it is easier to be generous than to be +stingy. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous +from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. +Philosophical Observation.--Nothing shows one who his friends are like +prosperity and ripe fruit. I had a good friend in the country, whom I +almost never visited except in cherry-time. By your fruits you shall +know them. + +Pretending to reflect upon these things, but in reality watching the +blue-jays, who are pecking at the purple berries of the woodbine on the +south gable, I approach the house. Polly is picking up chestnuts on the +sward, regardless of the high wind which rattles them about her head and +upon the glass roof of her winter-garden. The garden, I see, is filled +with thrifty plants, which will make it always summer there. The callas +about the fountain will be in flower by Christmas: the plant appears to +keep that holiday in her secret heart all summer. I close the outer +windows as we go along, and congratulate myself that we are ready for +winter. For the winter-garden I have no responsibility: Polly has entire +charge of it. I am only required to keep it heated, and not too hot +either; to smoke it often for the death of the bugs; to water it once a +day; to move this and that into the sun and out of the sun pretty +constantly: but she does all the work. We never relinquish that theory. + +I have been digging my potatoes, if anybody cares to know it. I planted +them in what are called "Early Rose,"--the rows a little less than three +feet apart; but the vines came to an early close in the drought. Digging +potatoes is a pleasant, soothing occupation, but not poetical. It is +good for the mind, unless they are too small (as many of mine are), when +it begets a want of gratitude to the bountiful earth. What small +potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! We don't plow deep +enough, any of us, for one thing. I shall put in the plow next year, and +give the tubers room enough. I think they felt the lack of it this year: +many of them seemed ashamed to come out so small. There is great +pleasure in turning out the brown-jacketed fellows into the sunshine of a +royal September day, and seeing them glisten as they lie thickly strewn +on the warm soil. Life has few such moments. But then they must be +picked up. The picking-up, in this world, is always the unpleasant part +of it. + +Nature is "awful smart." I intend to be complimentary in saying so. She +shows it in little things. I have mentioned my attempt to put in a few +modest turnips, near the close of the season. I sowed the seeds, by the +way, in the most liberal manner. Into three or four short rows I presume +I put enough to sow an acre; and they all came up,--came up as thick as +grass, as crowded and useless as babies in a Chinese village. Of course, +they had to be thinned out; that is, pretty much all pulled up; and it +took me a long time; for it takes a conscientious man some time to decide +which are the best and healthiest plants to spare. After all, I spared +too many. That is the great danger everywhere in this world (it may not +be in the next): things are too thick; we lose all in grasping for too +much. The Scotch say, that no man ought to thin out his own turnips, +because he will not sacrifice enough to leave room for the remainder to +grow: he should get his neighbor, who does not care for the plants, to do +it. But this is mere talk, and aside from the point: if there is +anything I desire to avoid in these agricultural papers, it is +digression. I did think that putting in these turnips so late in the +season, when general activity has ceased, and in a remote part of the +garden, they would pass unnoticed. But Nature never even winks, as I can +see. The tender blades were scarcely out of the ground when she sent a +small black fly, which seemed to have been born and held in reserve for +this purpose,--to cut the leaves. They speedily made lace-work of the +whole bed. 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