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On such a +morning as now lowers around our old gray parsonage, I miss the +bright face of my ancient friend, who was wont to dance upon the +hearth and play the part of more familiar sunshine. It is sad to +turn from the cloudy sky and sombre landscape; from yonder hill, +with its crown of rusty, black pines, the foliage of which is so +dismal in the absence of the sun; that bleak pasture-land, and the +broken surface of the potato-field, with the brown clods partly +concealed by the snowfall of last night; the swollen and sluggish +river, with ice-incrusted borders, dragging its bluish-gray stream +along the verge of our orchard like a snake half torpid with the +cold,--it is sad to turn from an outward scene of so little comfort +and find the same sullen influences brooding within the precincts of +my study. Where is that brilliant guest, that quick and subtle +spirit, whom Prometheus lured from heaven to civilize mankind and +cheer them in their wintry desolation; that comfortable inmate, +whose smile, during eight months of the year, was our sufficient +consolation for summer's lingering advance and early flight? Alas! +blindly inhospitable, grudging the food that kept him cheery and +mercurial, we have thrust him into an iron prison, and compel him to +smoulder away his life on a daily pittance which once would have +been too scanty for his breakfast. Without a metaphor, we now make +our fire in an air-tight stove, and supply it with some half a dozen +sticks of wood between dawn and nightfall. + +I never shall be reconciled to this enormity. Truly may it be said +that the world looks darker for it. In one way or another, here and +there and all around us, the inventions of mankind are fast blotting +the picturesque, the poetic, and the beautiful out of human life. +The domestic fire was a type of all these attributes, and seemed to +bring might and majesty, and wild nature and a spiritual essence, +into our in most home, and yet to dwell with us in such friendliness +that its mysteries and marvels excited no dismay. The same mild +companion that smiled so placidly in our faces was he that comes +roaring out of AEtna and rushes madly up the sky like a fiend +breaking loose from torment and fighting for a place among the upper +angels. He it is, too, that leaps from cloud to cloud amid the +crashing thunder-storm. It was he whom the Gheber worshipped with no +unnatural idolatry; and it was he who devoured London and Moscow and +many another famous city, and who loves to riot through our own dark +forests and sweep across our prairies, and to whose ravenous maw, it +is said, the universe shall one day be given as a final feast. +Meanwhile he is the great artisan and laborer by whose aid men are +enabled to build a world within a world, or, at least, to smooth +down the rough creation which Nature flung to it. He forges the +mighty anchor and every lesser instrument; he drives the steamboat +and drags the rail-car; and it was he--this creature of +terrible might, and so many-sided utility and all-comprehensive +destructiveness--that used to be the cheerful, homely friend of our +wintry days, and whom we have made the prisoner of this iron cage. + +How kindly he was! and, though the tremendous agent of change, yet +bearing himself with such gentleness, so rendering himself a part of +all life-long and age-coeval associations, that it seemed as if he +were the great conservative of nature. While a man was true to the +fireside, so long would he be true to country and law, to the God +whom his fathers worshipped, to the wife of his youth, and to all +things else which instinct or religion has taught us to consider +sacred. With how sweet humility did this elemental spirit perform +all needful offices for the household in which he was domesticated! +He was equal to the concoction of a grand dinner, yet scorned not to +roast a potato or toast a bit of cheese. How humanely did he +cherish the school-boy's icy fingers, and thaw the old man's joints +with a genial warmth which almost equalled the glow of youth! And +how carefully did he dry the cowhide boots that had trudged through +mud and snow, and the shaggy outside garment stiff with frozen +sleet! taking heed, likewise, to the comfort of the faithful dog who +had followed his master through the storm. When did he refuse a +coal to light a pipe, or even a part of his own substance to kindle +a neighbor's fire? And then, at twilight, when laborer, or scholar, +or mortal of whatever age, sex, or degree, drew a chair beside him +and looked into his glowing face, how acute, how profound, how +comprehensive was his sympathy with the mood of each and all! He +pictured forth their very thoughts. To the youthful he showed the +scenes of the adventurous life before them; to the aged the shadows +of departed love and hope; and, if all earthly things had grown +distasteful, he could gladden the fireside muser with golden +glimpses of a better world. And, amid this varied communion with +the human soul, how busily would the sympathizer, the deep moralist, +the painter of magic pictures, be causing the teakettle to boil! + +Nor did it lessen the charm of his soft, familiar courtesy and +helpfulness that the mighty spirit, were opportunity offered him, +would run riot through the peaceful house, wrap its inmates in his +terrible embrace, and leave nothing of them save their whitened +bones. This possibility of mad destruction only made his domestic +kindness the more beautiful and touching. It was so sweet of him, +being endowed with such power, to dwell day after day, and one long +lonesome night after another, on the dusky hearth, only now and then +betraying his wild nature by thrusting his red tongue out of the +chimney-top! True, he had done much mischief in the world, and was +pretty certain to do more; but his warm heart atoned for all. He +was kindly to the race of man; and they pardoned his characteristic +imperfections. + +The good old clergyman, my predecessor in this mansion, was well +acquainted with the comforts of the fireside. His yearly allowance +of wood, according to the terms of his settlement, was no less than +sixty cords. Almost an annual forest was converted from sound +oak logs into ashes, in the kitchen, the parlor, and this little +study, where now an unworthy successor, not in the pastoral office, +but merely in his earthly abode, sits scribbling beside an air-tight +stove. I love to fancy one of those fireside days while the good +man, a contemporary of the Revolution, was in his early prime, some +five-and-sixty years ago. Before sunrise, doubtless, the blaze +hovered upon the gray skirts of night and dissolved the frostwork +that had gathered like a curtain over the small window-panes. There +is something peculiar in the aspect of the morning fireside; a +fresher, brisker glare; the absence of that mellowness which can be +produced only by half-consumed logs, and shapeless brands with the +white ashes on them, and mighty coals, the remnant of tree-trunks +that the hungry, elements have gnawed for hours. The morning +hearth, too, is newly swept, and the brazen andirons well +brightened, so that the cheerful fire may see its face in them. +Surely it was happiness, when the pastor, fortified with a +substantial breakfast, sat down in his arm-chair and slippers and +opened the Whole Body of Divinity, or the Commentary on Job, or +whichever of his old folios or quartos might fall within the range +of his weekly sermons. It must have been his own fault if the +warmth and glow of this abundant hearth did not permeate the +discourse and keep his audience comfortable in spite of the +bitterest northern blast that ever wrestled with the church-steeple. +He reads while the heat warps the stiff covers of the volume; he +writes without numbness either in his heart or fingers; and, with +unstinted hand, he throws fresh sticks of wood upon the fire. + +A parishioner comes in. With what warmth of benevolence--how should +he be otherwise than warm in any of his attributes?--does the +minister bid him welcome, and set a chair for him in so close +proximity to the hearth, that soon the guest finds it needful to rub +his scorched shins with his great red hands! The melted snow drips +from his steaming boots and bubbles upon the hearth. His puckered +forehead unravels its entanglement of crisscross wrinkles. We lose +much of the enjoyment of fireside heat without such an opportunity +of marking its genial effect upon those who have been looking the +inclement weather in the face. In the course of the day our +clergyman himself strides forth, perchance to pay a round of +pastoral visits; or, it may he, to visit his mountain of a wood-pile +and cleave the monstrous logs into billets suitable for the fire. +He returns with fresher life to his beloved hearth. During the +short afternoon the western sunshine comes into the study and +strives to stare the ruddy blaze out of countenance but with only a +brief triumph, soon to be succeeded by brighter glories of its +rival. Beautiful it is to see the strengthening gleam, the +deepening light that gradually casts distinct shadows of the human +figure, the table, and the high-backed chairs upon the opposite +wall, and at length, as twilight comes on, replenishes the room with +living radiance and makes life all rose-color. Afar the wayfarer +discerns the flickering flame as it dances upon the windows, and +hails it as a beacon-light of humanity, reminding him, in his cold +and lonely path, that the world is not all snow, and solitude, and +desolation. At eventide, probably, the study was peopled with the +clergyman's wife and family, and children tumbled themselves upon +the hearth-rug, and grave puss sat with her back to the fire, or +gazed, with a semblance of human meditation, into its fervid depths. +Seasonably the plenteous ashes of the day were raked over the +mouldering brands, and from the heap came jets of flame, and an +incense of night-long smoke creeping quietly up the chimney. + +Heaven forgive the old clergyman! In his later life, when for +almost ninety winters he had been gladdened by the firelight,--when +it had gleamed upon him from infancy to extreme age, and never +without brightening his spirits as well as his visage, and perhaps +keeping him alive so long,--he had the heart to brick up his +chimney-place and bid farewell to the face of his old friend +forever, why did he not take an eternal leave of the sunshine too? +His sixty cords of wood had probably dwindled to a far less ample +supply in modern times; and it is certain that the parsonage had +grown crazy with time and tempest and pervious to the cold; but +still it was one of the saddest tokens of the decline and fall of +open fireplaces that, the gray patriarch should have deigned to warm +himself at an air-tight stove. + +And I, likewise,--who have found a home in this ancient owl's-nest +since its former occupant took his heavenward flight,--I, to my +shame, have put up stoves in kitchen and parlor and chamber. Wander +where you will about the house, not a glimpse of the earth-born, +heaven-aspiring fiend of Etna,--him that sports in the thunder- +storm, the idol of the Ghebers, the devourer of cities, the forest- +rioter and prairie-sweeper, the future destroyer of our earth, the +old chimney-corner companion who mingled himself so sociably with +household joys and sorrows,--not a glimpse of this mighty and kindly +one will greet your eyes. He is now an invisible presence. There +is his iron cage. Touch it, and he scorches your fingers. He +delights to singe a garment or perpetrate any other little unworthy +mischief; for his temper is ruined by the ingratitude of mankind, +for whom he cherished such warmth of feeling, and to whom he taught +all their arts, even that of making his own prison-house. In his +fits of rage he puffs volumes of smoke and noisome gas through the +crevices of the door, and shakes the iron walls of his dungeon so as +to overthrow the ornamental urn upon its summit. We tremble lest he +should break forth amongst us. Much of his time is spent in sighs, +burdened with unutterable grief, and long drawn through the funnel. +He amuses himself, too, with repeating all the whispers, the moans, +and the louder utterances or tempestuous howls of the wind; so that +the stove becomes a microcosm of the aerial world. Occasionally +there are strange combinations of sounds,--voices talking almost +articulately within the hollow chest of iron,--insomuch that fancy +beguiles me with the idea that my firewood must have grown in that +infernal forest of lamentable trees which breathed their complaints +to Dante. When the listener is half asleep he may readily take +these voices for the conversation of spirits and assign them an +intelligible meaning. Anon there is a pattering noise,--drip, +drip, drip,--as if a summer shower were falling within the narrow +circumference of the stove. + +These barren and tedious eccentricities are all that the air-tight +stove can bestow in exchange for the invaluable moral influences +which we have lost by our desertion of the open fireplace. Alas! is +this world so very bright that we can afford to choke up such a +domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down by its darkened +source without being conscious of a gloom? + +It is my belief that social intercourse cannot long continue what it +has been, now that we have subtracted from it so important and +vivifying an element as firelight. The effects will be more +perceptible on our children and the generations that shall succeed +them than on ourselves, the mechanism of whose life may remain +unchanged, though its spirit be far other than it was. The sacred +trust of the household fire has been transmitted in unbroken +succession from the earliest ages, and faithfully cherished in spite +of every discouragement such as the curfew law of the Norman +conquerors, until in these evil days physical science has nearly +succeeded in extinguishing it. But we at least have our youthful +recollections tinged with the glow of the hearth, and our life-long +habits and associations arranged on the principle of a mutual bond +in the domestic fire. Therefore, though the sociable friend be +forever departed, yet in a degree he will be spiritually present +with us; and still more will the empty forms which were once full of +his rejoicing presence continue to rule our manners. We shall draw +our chairs together as we and our forefathers have been wont for +thousands of years back, and sit around some blank and empty corner +of the room, babbling with unreal cheerfulness of topics suitable to +the homely fireside. A warmth from the past--from the ashes of +bygone years and the raked-up embers of long ago--will sometimes +thaw the ice about our hearts; but it must be otherwise with our +successors. On the most favorable supposition, they will be +acquainted with the fireside in no better shape than that of the +sullen stove; and more probably they will have grown up amid furnace +heat in houses which might be fancied to have their foundation over +the infernal pit, whence sulphurous steams and unbreathable +exhalations ascend through the apertures of the floor. There will +be nothing to attract these poor children to one centre. They will +never behold one another through that peculiar medium of vision the +ruddy gleam of blazing wood or bituminous coal---which gives the +human spirit so deep an insight into its fellows and melts all +humanity into one cordial heart of hearts. Domestic life, if it may +still be termed domestic, will seek its separate corners, and never +gather itself into groups. The easy gossip; the merry yet +unambitious Jest; the life-like, practical discussion of real +matters in a casual way; the soul of truth which is so often +incarnated in a simple fireside word,--will disappear from earth. +Conversation will contract the air of debate, and all mortal +intercourse be chilled with a fatal frost. + +In classic times, the exhortation to fight "pro axis et focis," for +the altars and the hearths, was considered the strongest appeal that +could be made to patriotism. And it seemed an immortal utterance; +for all subsequent ages and people have acknowledged its force and +responded to it with the full portion of manhood that nature had +assigned to each. Wisely were the altar and the hearth conjoined in +one mighty sentence; for the hearth, too, had its kindred sanctity. +Religion sat down beside it, not in the priestly robes which +decorated and perhaps disguised her at the altar, but arrayed in a +simple matron's garb, and uttering her lessons with the tenderness +of a mother's voice and heart. The holy hearth! If any earthly and +material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and +mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, +it was this. All revered it. The man who did not put off his shoes +upon this holy ground would have deemed it pastime to trample upon +the altar. It has been our task to uproot the hearth. What further +reform is left for our children to achieve, unless they overthrow +the altar too? And by what appeal hereafter, when the breath of +hostile armies may mingle with the pure, cold breezes of our +country, shall we attempt to rouse up native valor? Fight for your +hearths? There will be none throughout the land. + +FIGHT FOR YOUR STOVES! Not I, in faith. If in such a cause I +strike a blow, it shall be on the invader's part; and Heaven grant +that it may shatter the abomination all to pieces! + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, FIRE WORSHIP *** +By Nathaniel Hawthorne + +* This file should be named haw5010.txt or haw5010.zip * + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw5011.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw5010a.txt + +This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net] + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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