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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Hall of Fantasy, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Title: The Hall of Fantasy
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Release Date: September 6, 2003 [eBook #9226]
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HALL OF FANTASY ***
+
+
+
+
+The Hall of Fantasy
+
+by Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+
+
+It has happened to me, on various occasions, to find myself in a
+certain edifice which would appear to have some of the characteristics
+of a public exchange. Its interior is a spacious hall, with a pavement
+of white marble. Overhead is a lofty dome, supported by long rows of
+pillars of fantastic architecture, the idea of which was probably taken
+from the Moorish ruins of the Alhambra, or perhaps from some enchanted
+edifice in the Arabian tales. The windows of this hall have a breadth
+and grandeur of design and an elaborateness of workmanship that have
+nowhere been equalled, except in the Gothic cathedrals of the Old
+World. Like their prototypes, too, they admit the light of heaven only
+through stained and pictured glass, thus filling the hall with
+many-colored radiance and painting its marble floor with beautiful or
+grotesque designs; so that its inmates breathe, as it were, a visionary
+atmosphere, and tread upon the fantasies of poetic minds. These
+peculiarities, combining a wilder mixture of styles than even an
+American architect usually recognizes as allowable,—Grecian, Gothic,
+Oriental, and nondescript,—cause the whole edifice to give the
+impression of a dream, which might be dissipated and shattered to
+fragments by merely stamping the foot upon the pavement. Yet, with such
+modifications and repairs as successive ages demand, the Hall of
+Fantasy is likely to endure longer than the most substantial structure
+that ever cumbered the earth.
+
+It is not at all times that one can gain admittance into this edifice,
+although most persons enter it at some period or other of their lives;
+if not in their waking moments, then by the universal passport of a
+dream. At my last visit I wandered thither unawares while my mind was
+busy with an idle tale, and was startled by the throng of people who
+seemed suddenly to rise up around me.
+
+“Bless me! Where am I?” cried I, with but a dim recognition of the
+place.
+
+“You are in a spot,” said a friend who chanced to be near at hand,
+“which occupies in the world of fancy the same position which the
+Bourse, the Rialto, and the Exchange do in the commercial world. All
+who have affairs in that mystic region, which lies above, below, or
+beyond the actual, may here meet and talk over the business of their
+dreams.”
+
+“It is a noble hall,” observed I.
+
+“Yes,” he replied. “Yet we see but a small portion of the edifice. In
+its upper stories are said to be apartments where the inhabitants of
+earth may hold converse with those of the moon; and beneath our feet
+are gloomy cells, which communicate with the infernal regions, and
+where monsters and chimeras are kept in confinement and fed with all
+unwholesomeness.”
+
+In niches and on pedestals around about the hall stood the statues or
+busts of men who in every age have been rulers and demigods in the
+realms of imagination and its kindred regions. The grand old
+countenance of Homer; the shrunken and decrepit form but vivid face of
+AEsop; the dark presence of Dante; the wild Ariosto; Rabelais’s smile
+of deep-wrought mirth, the profound, pathetic humor of Cervantes; the
+all-glorious Shakespeare; Spenser, meet guest for an allegoric
+structure; the severe divinity of Milton; and Bunyan, moulded of
+homeliest clay, but instinct with celestial fire,—were those that
+chiefly attracted my eye. Fielding, Richardson, and Scott occupied
+conspicuous pedestals. In an obscure and shadowy niche was deposited
+the bust of our countryman, the author of Arthur Mervyn.
+
+“Besides these indestructible memorials of real genius,” remarked my
+companion, “each century has erected statues of its own ephemeral
+favorites in wood.”
+
+“I observe a few crumbling relics of such,” said I. “But ever and anon,
+I suppose, Oblivion comes with her huge broom and sweeps them all from
+the marble floor. But such will never be the fate of this fine statue
+of Goethe.”
+
+“Nor of that next to it,—Emanuel Swedenborg,” said he. “Were ever two
+men of transcendent imagination more unlike?”
+
+In the centre of the hall springs an ornamental fountain, the water of
+which continually throws itself into new shapes and snatches the most
+diversified lines from the stained atmosphere around. It is impossible
+to conceive what a strange vivacity is imparted to the scene by the
+magic dance of this fountain, with its endless transformations, in
+which the imaginative beholder may discern what form he will. The water
+is supposed by some to flow from the same source as the Castalian
+spring, and is extolled by others as uniting the virtues of the
+Fountain of Youth with those of many other enchanted wells long
+celebrated in tale and song. Having never tasted it, I can bear no
+testimony to its quality.
+
+“Did you ever drink this water?” I inquired of my friend.
+
+“A few sips now and then,” answered he. “But there are men here who
+make it their constant beverage,—or, at least, have the credit of doing
+so. In some instances it is known to have intoxicating qualities.”
+
+“Pray let us look at these water-drinkers,” said I.
+
+So we passed among the fantastic pillars till we came to a spot where a
+number of persons were clustered together in the light of one of the
+great stained windows, which seemed to glorify the whole group as well
+as the marble that they trod on. Most of them were men of broad
+foreheads, meditative countenances, and thoughtful, inward eyes; yet it
+required but a trifle to summon up mirth, peeping out from the very
+midst of grave and lofty musings. Some strode about, or leaned against
+the pillars of the hall, alone and in silence; their faces wore a rapt
+expression, as if sweet music were in the air around them, or as if
+their inmost souls were about to float away in song. One or two,
+perhaps, stole a glance at the bystanders, to watch if their poetic
+absorption were observed. Others stood talking in groups, with a
+liveliness of expression, a ready smile, and a light, intellectual
+laughter, which showed how rapidly the shafts of wit were glancing to
+and fro among them.
+
+A few held higher converse, which caused their calm and melancholy
+souls to beam moonlight from their eyes. As I lingered near them,—for I
+felt an inward attraction towards these men, as if the sympathy of
+feeling, if not of genius, had united me to their order,—my friend
+mentioned several of their names. The world has likewise heard those
+names; with some it has been familiar for years; and others are daily
+making their way deeper into the universal heart.
+
+“Thank Heaven,” observed I to my companion, as we passed to another
+part of the hall, “we have done with this techy, wayward, shy, proud
+unreasonable set of laurel-gatherers. I love them in their works, but
+have little desire to meet them elsewhere.”
+
+“You have adopted all old prejudice, I see,” replied my friend, who was
+familiar with most of these worthies, being himself a student of
+poetry, and not without the poetic flame. “But, so far as my experience
+goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in
+this age there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them which had not
+heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be
+on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown
+aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous
+brotherhood.”
+
+“The world does not think so,” answered I. “An author is received in
+general society pretty much as we honest citizens are in the Hall of
+Fantasy. We gaze at him as if he had no business among us, and question
+whether he is fit for any of our pursuits.”
+
+“Then it is a very foolish question,” said he. “Now, here are a class
+of men whom we may daily meet on ’Change. Yet what poet in the hall is
+more a fool of fancy than the sagest of them?”
+
+He pointed to a number of persons, who, manifest as the fact was, would
+have deemed it an insult to be told that they stood in the Hall of
+Fantasy. Their visages were traced into wrinkles and furrows, each of
+which seemed the record of some actual experience in life. Their eyes
+had the shrewd, calculating glance which detects so quickly and so
+surely all that it concerns a man of business to know about the
+characters and purposes of his fellow-men. Judging them as they stood,
+they might be honored and trusted members of the Chamber of Commerce,
+who had found the genuine secret of wealth and whose sagacity gave them
+the command of fortune.
+
+There was a character of detail and matter of fact in their talk which
+concealed the extravagance of its purport, insomuch that the wildest
+schemes had the aspect of everyday realities. Thus the listener was not
+startled at the idea of cities to be built, as if by magic, in the
+heart of pathless forests; and of streets to be laid out where now the
+sea was tossing; and of mighty rivers to be stayed in their courses in
+order to turn the machinery of a cotton-mill. It was only by an effort,
+and scarcely then, that the mind convinced itself that such
+speculations were as much matter of fantasy as the old dream of
+Eldorado, or as Mammon’s Cave, or any other vision of gold ever
+conjured up by the imagination of needy poet or romantic adventurer.
+
+“Upon my word,” said I, “it is dangerous to listen to such dreamers as
+these. Their madness is contagious.”
+
+“Yes,” said my friend, “because they mistake the Hall of Fantasy for
+actual brick and mortar, and its purple atmosphere for unsophisticated
+sunshine. But the poet knows his whereabout, and therefore is less
+likely to make a fool of himself in real life.”
+
+“Here again,” observed I, as we advanced a little farther, “we see
+another order of dreamers, peculiarly characteristic, too, of the
+genius of our country.”
+
+These were the inventors of fantastic machines. Models of their
+contrivances were placed against some of the pillars of the hall, and
+afforded good emblems of the result generally to be anticipated from an
+attempt to reduce day-dreams to practice. The analogy may hold in
+morals as well as physics; for instance, here was the model of a
+railroad through the air and a tunnel under the sea. Here was a
+machine—stolen, I believe—for the distillation of heat from moonshine;
+and another for the condensation of morning mist into square blocks of
+granite, wherewith it was proposed to rebuild the entire Hall of
+Fantasy. One man exhibited a sort of lens whereby he had succeeded in
+making sunshine out of a lady’s smile; and it was his purpose wholly to
+irradiate the earth by means of this wonderful invention.
+
+“It is nothing new,” said I; “for most of our sunshine comes from
+woman’s smile already.”
+
+“True,” answered the inventor; “but my machine will secure a constant
+supply for domestic use; whereas hitherto it has been very precarious.”
+
+Another person had a scheme for fixing the reflections of objects in a
+pool of water, and thus taking the most life-like portraits imaginable;
+and the same gentleman demonstrated the practicability of giving a
+permanent dye to ladies’ dresses, in the gorgeous clouds of sunset.
+There were at least fifty kinds of perpetual motion, one of which was
+applicable to the wits of newspaper editors and writers of every
+description. Professor Espy was here, with a tremendous storm in a
+gum-elastic bag. I could enumerate many more of these Utopian
+inventions; but, after all, a more imaginative collection is to be
+found in the Patent Office at Washington.
+
+Turning from the inventors we took a more general survey of the inmates
+of the hall. Many persons were present whose right of entrance appeared
+to consist in some crotchet of the brain, which, so long as it might
+operate, produced a change in their relation to the actual world. It is
+singular how very few there are who do not occasionally gain admittance
+on such a score, either in abstracted musings, or momentary thoughts,
+or bright anticipations, or vivid remembrances; for even the actual
+becomes ideal, whether in hope or memory, and beguiles the dreamer into
+the Hall of Fantasy. Some unfortunates make their whole abode and
+business here, and contract habits which unfit them for all the real
+employments of life. Others—but these are few—possess the faculty, in
+their occasional visits, of discovering a purer truth than the world
+call impart among the lights and shadows of these pictured windows.
+
+And with all its dangerous influences, we have reason to thank God that
+there is such a place of refuge from the gloom and chillness of actual
+life. Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark and narrow
+cell and cankerous chain, to breathe free air in this enchanted
+atmosphere. The sick man leaves his weary pillow, and finds strength to
+wander hither, though his wasted limbs might not support him even to
+the threshold of his chamber. The exile passes through the Hall of
+Fantasy to revisit his native soil. The burden of years rolls down from
+the old man’s shoulders the moment that the door uncloses. Mourners
+leave their heavy sorrows at the entrance, and here rejoin the lost
+ones whose faces would else be seen no more, until thought shall have
+become the only fact. It may be said, in truth, that there is but half
+a life—the meaner and earthier half—for those who never find their way
+into the hall. Nor must I fail to mention that in the observatory of
+the edifice is kept that wonderful perspective-glass, through which the
+shepherds of the Delectable Mountains showed Christian the far-off
+gleam of the Celestial City. The eye of Faith still loves to gaze
+through it.
+
+“I observe some men here,” said I to my friend, “who might set up a
+strong claim to be reckoned among the most real personages of the day.”
+
+“Certainly,” he replied. “If a man be in advance of his age, he must be
+content to make his abode in this hall until the lingering generations
+of his fellow-men come up with him. He can find no other shelter in the
+universe. But the fantasies of one day are the deepest realities of a
+future one.”
+
+“It is difficult to distinguish them apart amid the gorgeous and
+bewildering light of this ball,” rejoined I. “The white sunshine of
+actual life is necessary in order to test them. I am rather apt to
+doubt both men and their reasonings till I meet them in that truthful
+medium.”
+
+“Perhaps your faith in the ideal is deeper than you are aware,” said my
+friend. “You are at least a democrat; and methinks no scanty share of
+such faith is essential to the adoption of that creed.”
+
+Among the characters who had elicited these remarks were most of the
+noted reformers of the day, whether in physics, politics, morals, or
+religion. There is no surer method of arriving at the Hall of Fantasy
+than to throw one’s-self into the current of a theory; for, whatever
+landmarks of fact may be set up along the stream, there is a law of
+nature that impels it thither. And let it be so; for here the wise head
+and capacious heart may do their work; and what is good and true
+becomes gradually hardened into fact, while error melts away and
+vanishes among the shadows of the ball. Therefore may none who believe
+and rejoice in the progress of mankind be angry with me because I
+recognized their apostles and leaders amid the fantastic radiance of
+those pictured windows. I love and honor such men as well as they.
+
+It would be endless to describe the herd of real or self styled
+reformers that peopled this place of refuge. They were the
+representatives of an unquiet period, when mankind is seeking to cast
+off the whole tissue of ancient custom like a tattered garment. Many of
+then had got possession of some crystal fragment of truth, the
+brightness of which so dazzled them that they could see nothing else in
+the wide universe. Here were men whose faith had embodied itself in the
+form of a potato; and others whose long beards had a deep spiritual
+significance. Here was the abolitionist, brandishing his one idea like
+an iron flail. In a word, there were a thousand shapes of good and
+evil, faith and infidelity, wisdom and nonsense,—a most incongruous
+throng.
+
+Yet, withal, the heart of the stanchest conservative, unless he abjured
+his fellowship with man, could hardly have helped throbbing in sympathy
+with the spirit that pervaded these innumerable theorists. It was good
+for the man of unquickened heart to listen even to their folly. Far
+down beyond the fathom of the intellect the soul acknowledged that all
+these varying and conflicting developments of humanity were united in
+one sentiment. Be the individual theory as wild as fancy could make it,
+still the wiser spirit would recognize the struggle of the race after a
+better and purer life than had yet been realized on earth. My faith
+revived even while I rejected all their schemes. It could not be that
+the world should continue forever what it has been; a soil where
+Happiness is so rare a flower and Virtue so often a blighted fruit; a
+battle-field where the good principle, with its shield flung above its
+head, can hardly save itself amid the rush of adverse influences. In
+the enthusiasm of such thoughts I gazed through one of the pictured
+windows, and, behold! the whole external world was tinged with the
+dimly glorious aspect that is peculiar to the Hall of Fantasy, insomuch
+that it seemed practicable at that very instant to realize some plan
+for the perfection of mankind. But, alas! if reformers would understand
+the sphere in which their lot is cast they must cease to look through
+pictured windows. Yet they not only use this medium, but mistake it for
+the whitest sunshine.
+
+“Come,” said I to my friend, starting from a deep revery, “let us
+hasten hence, or I shall be tempted to make a theory, after which there
+is little hope of any man.”
+
+“Come hither, then,” answered he. “Here is one theory that swallows up
+and annihilates all others.”
+
+He led me to a distant part of the hall where a crowd of deeply
+attentive auditors were assembled round an elderly man of plain,
+honest, trustworthy aspect. With an earnestness that betokened the
+sincerest faith in his own doctrine, he announced that the destruction
+of the world was close at hand.
+
+“It is Father Miller himself!” exclaimed I.
+
+“No less a man,” said my friend; “and observe how picturesque a
+contrast between his dogma and those of the reformers whom we have just
+glanced at. They look for the earthly perfection of mankind, and are
+forming schemes which imply that the immortal spirit will be connected
+with a physical nature for innumerable ages of futurity. On the other
+hand, here comes good Father Miller, and with one puff of his
+relentless theory scatters all their dreams like so many withered
+leaves upon the blast.”
+
+“It is, perhaps, the only method of getting mankind out of the various
+perplexities into which they have fallen,” I replied. “Yet I could wish
+that the world might be permitted to endure until some great moral
+shall have been evolved. A riddle is propounded. Where is the solution?
+The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed. Will
+it not be so with the world? Now, if it should be burned to-morrow
+morning, I am at a loss to know what purpose will have been
+accomplished, or how the universe will be wiser or better for our
+existence and destruction.”
+
+“We cannot tell what mighty truths may have been embodied in act
+through the existence of the globe and its inhabitants,” rejoined my
+companion. “Perhaps it may be revealed to us after the fall of the
+curtain over our catastrophe; or not impossibly, the whole drama, in
+which we are involuntary actors, may have been performed for the
+instruction of another set of spectators. I cannot perceive that our
+own comprehension of it is at all essential to the matter. At any rate,
+while our view is so ridiculously narrow and superficial it would be
+absurd to argue the continuance of the world from the fact that it
+seems to have existed hitherto in vain.”
+
+“The poor old earth,” murmured I. “She has faults enough, in all
+conscience, but I cannot hear to have her perish.”
+
+“It is no great matter,” said my friend. “The happiest of us has been
+weary of her many a time and oft.”
+
+“I doubt it,” answered I, pertinaciously; “the root of human nature
+strikes down deep into this earthly soil, and it is but reluctantly
+that we submit to be transplanted, even for a higher cultivation in
+heaven. I query whether the destruction of the earth would gratify any
+one individual, except perhaps some embarrassed man of business whose
+notes fall due a day after the day of doom.”
+
+Then methought I heard the expostulating cry of a multitude against the
+consummation prophesied by Father Miller. The lover wrestled with
+Providence for his foreshadowed bliss. Parents entreated that the
+earth’s span of endurance might be prolonged by some seventy years, so
+that their new-born infant should not be defrauded of his lifetime. A
+youthful poet murmured because there would be no posterity to recognize
+the inspiration of his song. The reformers, one and all, demanded a few
+thousand years to test their theories, after which the universe might
+go to wreck. A mechanician, who was busied with an improvement of the
+steam-engine, asked merely time to perfect his model. A miser insisted
+that the world’s destruction would be a personal wrong to himself,
+unless he should first be permitted to add a specified sum to his
+enormous heap of gold. A little boy made dolorous inquiry whether the
+last day would come before Christmas, and thus deprive him of his
+anticipated dainties. In short, nobody seemed satisfied that this
+mortal scene of things should have its close just now. Yet, it must be
+confessed, the motives of the crowd for desiring its continuance were
+mostly so absurd, that unless infinite Wisdom had been aware of much
+better reasons, the solid earth must have melted away at once.
+
+For my own part, not to speak of a few private and personal ends, I
+really desired our old mother’s prolonged existence for her own dear
+sake.
+
+“The poor old earth!” I repeated. “What I should chiefly regret in her
+destruction would be that very earthliness which no other sphere or
+state of existence can renew or compensate. The fragrance of flowers
+and of new-mown hay; the genial warmth of sunshine, and the beauty of a
+sunset among clouds; the comfort and cheerful glow of the fireside; the
+deliciousness of fruits and of all good cheer; the magnificence of
+mountains, and seas, and cataracts, and the softer charm of rural
+scenery; even the fast-falling snow and the gray atmosphere through
+which it descends,—all these and innumerable other enjoyable things of
+earth must perish with her. Then the country frolics; the homely humor;
+the broad, open-mouthed roar of laughter, in which body and soul
+conjoin so heartily! I fear that no other world call show its anything
+just like this. As for purely moral enjoyments, the good will find them
+in every state of being. But where the material and the moral exist
+together, what is to happen then? And then our mute four-footed friends
+and the winged songsters of our woods! Might it not be lawful to regret
+them, even in the hallowed groves of paradise?”
+
+“You speak like the very spirit of earth, imbued with a scent of
+freshly turned soil,” exclaimed my friend.
+
+“It is not that I so much object to giving up these enjoyments on my
+own account,” continued I, “but I hate to think that they will have
+been eternally annihilated from the list of joys.”
+
+“Nor need they be,” he replied. “I see no real force in what you say.
+Standing in this Hall of Fantasy, we perceive what even the
+earth-clogged intellect of man can do in creating circumstances which,
+though we call them shadowy and visionary, are scarcely more so than
+those that surround us in actual life. Doubt not then that man’s
+disembodied spirit may recreate time and the world for itself, with all
+their peculiar enjoyments, should there still be human yearnings amid
+life eternal and infinite. But I doubt whether we shall be inclined to
+play such a poor scene over again.”
+
+“O, you are ungrateful to our mother earth!” rejoined I. “Come what
+may, I never will forget her! Neither will it satisfy me to have her
+exist merely in idea. I want her great, round, solid self to endure
+interminably, and still to be peopled with the kindly race of man, whom
+I uphold to be much better than he thinks himself. Nevertheless, I
+confide the whole matter to Providence, and shall endeavor so to live
+that the world may come to an end at any moment without leaving me at a
+loss to find foothold somewhere else.”
+
+“It is an excellent resolve,” said my companion, looking at his watch.
+“But come; it is the dinner-hour. Will you partake of my vegetable
+diet?”
+
+A thing so matter of fact as an invitation to dinner, even when the
+fare was to be nothing more substantial than vegetables and fruit,
+compelled us forthwith to remove from the Hall of Fantasy. As we passed
+out of the portal we met the spirits of several persons who had been
+sent thither in magnetic sleep. I looked back among the sculptured
+pillars and at the transformations of the gleaming fountain, and almost
+desired that the whole of life might be spent in that visionary scene
+where the actual world, with its hard angles, should never rub against
+me, and only be viewed through the medium of pictured windows. But for
+those who waste all their days in the Hall of Fantasy, good Father
+Miller’s prophecy is already accomplished, and the solid earth has come
+to an untimely end. Let us be content, therefore, with merely an
+occasional visit, for the sake of spiritualizing the grossness of this
+actual life, and prefiguring to ourselves a state in which the Idea
+shall be all in all.
+
+
+
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+<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The Hall of Fantasy</div>
+<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne</div>
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+<h1>The Hall of Fantasy</h1>
+
+<h2 class="no-break">by Nathaniel Hawthorne</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p>
+It has happened to me, on various occasions, to find myself in a certain
+edifice which would appear to have some of the characteristics of a public
+exchange. Its interior is a spacious hall, with a pavement of white marble.
+Overhead is a lofty dome, supported by long rows of pillars of fantastic
+architecture, the idea of which was probably taken from the Moorish ruins of
+the Alhambra, or perhaps from some enchanted edifice in the Arabian tales. The
+windows of this hall have a breadth and grandeur of design and an elaborateness
+of workmanship that have nowhere been equalled, except in the Gothic cathedrals
+of the Old World. Like their prototypes, too, they admit the light of heaven
+only through stained and pictured glass, thus filling the hall with
+many-colored radiance and painting its marble floor with beautiful or grotesque
+designs; so that its inmates breathe, as it were, a visionary atmosphere, and
+tread upon the fantasies of poetic minds. These peculiarities, combining a
+wilder mixture of styles than even an American architect usually recognizes as
+allowable,&mdash;Grecian, Gothic, Oriental, and nondescript,&mdash;cause the
+whole edifice to give the impression of a dream, which might be dissipated and
+shattered to fragments by merely stamping the foot upon the pavement. Yet, with
+such modifications and repairs as successive ages demand, the Hall of Fantasy
+is likely to endure longer than the most substantial structure that ever
+cumbered the earth.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It is not at all times that one can gain admittance into this edifice, although
+most persons enter it at some period or other of their lives; if not in their
+waking moments, then by the universal passport of a dream. At my last visit I
+wandered thither unawares while my mind was busy with an idle tale, and was
+startled by the throng of people who seemed suddenly to rise up around me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Bless me! Where am I?” cried I, with but a dim recognition of the place.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“You are in a spot,” said a friend who chanced to be near at hand, “which
+occupies in the world of fancy the same position which the Bourse, the Rialto,
+and the Exchange do in the commercial world. All who have affairs in that
+mystic region, which lies above, below, or beyond the actual, may here meet and
+talk over the business of their dreams.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is a noble hall,” observed I.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Yes,” he replied. “Yet we see but a small portion of the edifice. In its upper
+stories are said to be apartments where the inhabitants of earth may hold
+converse with those of the moon; and beneath our feet are gloomy cells, which
+communicate with the infernal regions, and where monsters and chimeras are kept
+in confinement and fed with all unwholesomeness.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In niches and on pedestals around about the hall stood the statues or busts of
+men who in every age have been rulers and demigods in the realms of imagination
+and its kindred regions. The grand old countenance of Homer; the shrunken and
+decrepit form but vivid face of AEsop; the dark presence of Dante; the wild
+Ariosto; Rabelais’s smile of deep-wrought mirth, the profound, pathetic humor
+of Cervantes; the all-glorious Shakespeare; Spenser, meet guest for an
+allegoric structure; the severe divinity of Milton; and Bunyan, moulded of
+homeliest clay, but instinct with celestial fire,&mdash;were those that chiefly
+attracted my eye. Fielding, Richardson, and Scott occupied conspicuous
+pedestals. In an obscure and shadowy niche was deposited the bust of our
+countryman, the author of Arthur Mervyn.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Besides these indestructible memorials of real genius,” remarked my companion,
+“each century has erected statues of its own ephemeral favorites in wood.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“I observe a few crumbling relics of such,” said I. “But ever and anon, I
+suppose, Oblivion comes with her huge broom and sweeps them all from the marble
+floor. But such will never be the fate of this fine statue of Goethe.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Nor of that next to it,&mdash;Emanuel Swedenborg,” said he. “Were ever two men
+of transcendent imagination more unlike?”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the centre of the hall springs an ornamental fountain, the water of which
+continually throws itself into new shapes and snatches the most diversified
+lines from the stained atmosphere around. It is impossible to conceive what a
+strange vivacity is imparted to the scene by the magic dance of this fountain,
+with its endless transformations, in which the imaginative beholder may discern
+what form he will. The water is supposed by some to flow from the same source
+as the Castalian spring, and is extolled by others as uniting the virtues of
+the Fountain of Youth with those of many other enchanted wells long celebrated
+in tale and song. Having never tasted it, I can bear no testimony to its
+quality.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Did you ever drink this water?” I inquired of my friend.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“A few sips now and then,” answered he. “But there are men here who make it
+their constant beverage,&mdash;or, at least, have the credit of doing so. In
+some instances it is known to have intoxicating qualities.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Pray let us look at these water-drinkers,” said I.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+So we passed among the fantastic pillars till we came to a spot where a number
+of persons were clustered together in the light of one of the great stained
+windows, which seemed to glorify the whole group as well as the marble that
+they trod on. Most of them were men of broad foreheads, meditative
+countenances, and thoughtful, inward eyes; yet it required but a trifle to
+summon up mirth, peeping out from the very midst of grave and lofty musings.
+Some strode about, or leaned against the pillars of the hall, alone and in
+silence; their faces wore a rapt expression, as if sweet music were in the air
+around them, or as if their inmost souls were about to float away in song. One
+or two, perhaps, stole a glance at the bystanders, to watch if their poetic
+absorption were observed. Others stood talking in groups, with a liveliness of
+expression, a ready smile, and a light, intellectual laughter, which showed how
+rapidly the shafts of wit were glancing to and fro among them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A few held higher converse, which caused their calm and melancholy souls to
+beam moonlight from their eyes. As I lingered near them,&mdash;for I felt an
+inward attraction towards these men, as if the sympathy of feeling, if not of
+genius, had united me to their order,&mdash;my friend mentioned several of
+their names. The world has likewise heard those names; with some it has been
+familiar for years; and others are daily making their way deeper into the
+universal heart.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Thank Heaven,” observed I to my companion, as we passed to another part of the
+hall, “we have done with this techy, wayward, shy, proud unreasonable set of
+laurel-gatherers. I love them in their works, but have little desire to meet
+them elsewhere.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“You have adopted all old prejudice, I see,” replied my friend, who was
+familiar with most of these worthies, being himself a student of poetry, and
+not without the poetic flame. “But, so far as my experience goes, men of genius
+are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age there appears to
+be a fellow-feeling among them which had not heretofore been developed. As men,
+they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as
+authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a
+generous brotherhood.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“The world does not think so,” answered I. “An author is received in general
+society pretty much as we honest citizens are in the Hall of Fantasy. We gaze
+at him as if he had no business among us, and question whether he is fit for
+any of our pursuits.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Then it is a very foolish question,” said he. “Now, here are a class of men
+whom we may daily meet on ’Change. Yet what poet in the hall is more a fool of
+fancy than the sagest of them?”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He pointed to a number of persons, who, manifest as the fact was, would have
+deemed it an insult to be told that they stood in the Hall of Fantasy. Their
+visages were traced into wrinkles and furrows, each of which seemed the record
+of some actual experience in life. Their eyes had the shrewd, calculating
+glance which detects so quickly and so surely all that it concerns a man of
+business to know about the characters and purposes of his fellow-men. Judging
+them as they stood, they might be honored and trusted members of the Chamber of
+Commerce, who had found the genuine secret of wealth and whose sagacity gave
+them the command of fortune.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There was a character of detail and matter of fact in their talk which
+concealed the extravagance of its purport, insomuch that the wildest schemes
+had the aspect of everyday realities. Thus the listener was not startled at the
+idea of cities to be built, as if by magic, in the heart of pathless forests;
+and of streets to be laid out where now the sea was tossing; and of mighty
+rivers to be stayed in their courses in order to turn the machinery of a
+cotton-mill. It was only by an effort, and scarcely then, that the mind
+convinced itself that such speculations were as much matter of fantasy as the
+old dream of Eldorado, or as Mammon’s Cave, or any other vision of gold ever
+conjured up by the imagination of needy poet or romantic adventurer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Upon my word,” said I, “it is dangerous to listen to such dreamers as these.
+Their madness is contagious.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Yes,” said my friend, “because they mistake the Hall of Fantasy for actual
+brick and mortar, and its purple atmosphere for unsophisticated sunshine. But
+the poet knows his whereabout, and therefore is less likely to make a fool of
+himself in real life.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Here again,” observed I, as we advanced a little farther, “we see another
+order of dreamers, peculiarly characteristic, too, of the genius of our
+country.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+These were the inventors of fantastic machines. Models of their contrivances
+were placed against some of the pillars of the hall, and afforded good emblems
+of the result generally to be anticipated from an attempt to reduce day-dreams
+to practice. The analogy may hold in morals as well as physics; for instance,
+here was the model of a railroad through the air and a tunnel under the sea.
+Here was a machine&mdash;stolen, I believe&mdash;for the distillation of heat
+from moonshine; and another for the condensation of morning mist into square
+blocks of granite, wherewith it was proposed to rebuild the entire Hall of
+Fantasy. One man exhibited a sort of lens whereby he had succeeded in making
+sunshine out of a lady’s smile; and it was his purpose wholly to irradiate the
+earth by means of this wonderful invention.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is nothing new,” said I; “for most of our sunshine comes from woman’s smile
+already.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“True,” answered the inventor; “but my machine will secure a constant supply
+for domestic use; whereas hitherto it has been very precarious.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Another person had a scheme for fixing the reflections of objects in a pool of
+water, and thus taking the most life-like portraits imaginable; and the same
+gentleman demonstrated the practicability of giving a permanent dye to ladies’
+dresses, in the gorgeous clouds of sunset. There were at least fifty kinds of
+perpetual motion, one of which was applicable to the wits of newspaper editors
+and writers of every description. Professor Espy was here, with a tremendous
+storm in a gum-elastic bag. I could enumerate many more of these Utopian
+inventions; but, after all, a more imaginative collection is to be found in the
+Patent Office at Washington.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Turning from the inventors we took a more general survey of the inmates of the
+hall. Many persons were present whose right of entrance appeared to consist in
+some crotchet of the brain, which, so long as it might operate, produced a
+change in their relation to the actual world. It is singular how very few there
+are who do not occasionally gain admittance on such a score, either in
+abstracted musings, or momentary thoughts, or bright anticipations, or vivid
+remembrances; for even the actual becomes ideal, whether in hope or memory, and
+beguiles the dreamer into the Hall of Fantasy. Some unfortunates make their
+whole abode and business here, and contract habits which unfit them for all the
+real employments of life. Others&mdash;but these are few&mdash;possess the
+faculty, in their occasional visits, of discovering a purer truth than the
+world call impart among the lights and shadows of these pictured windows.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And with all its dangerous influences, we have reason to thank God that there
+is such a place of refuge from the gloom and chillness of actual life. Hither
+may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark and narrow cell and cankerous
+chain, to breathe free air in this enchanted atmosphere. The sick man leaves
+his weary pillow, and finds strength to wander hither, though his wasted limbs
+might not support him even to the threshold of his chamber. The exile passes
+through the Hall of Fantasy to revisit his native soil. The burden of years
+rolls down from the old man’s shoulders the moment that the door uncloses.
+Mourners leave their heavy sorrows at the entrance, and here rejoin the lost
+ones whose faces would else be seen no more, until thought shall have become
+the only fact. It may be said, in truth, that there is but half a
+life&mdash;the meaner and earthier half&mdash;for those who never find their
+way into the hall. Nor must I fail to mention that in the observatory of the
+edifice is kept that wonderful perspective-glass, through which the shepherds
+of the Delectable Mountains showed Christian the far-off gleam of the Celestial
+City. The eye of Faith still loves to gaze through it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“I observe some men here,” said I to my friend, “who might set up a strong
+claim to be reckoned among the most real personages of the day.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Certainly,” he replied. “If a man be in advance of his age, he must be content
+to make his abode in this hall until the lingering generations of his
+fellow-men come up with him. He can find no other shelter in the universe. But
+the fantasies of one day are the deepest realities of a future one.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is difficult to distinguish them apart amid the gorgeous and bewildering
+light of this ball,” rejoined I. “The white sunshine of actual life is
+necessary in order to test them. I am rather apt to doubt both men and their
+reasonings till I meet them in that truthful medium.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Perhaps your faith in the ideal is deeper than you are aware,” said my friend.
+“You are at least a democrat; and methinks no scanty share of such faith is
+essential to the adoption of that creed.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Among the characters who had elicited these remarks were most of the noted
+reformers of the day, whether in physics, politics, morals, or religion. There
+is no surer method of arriving at the Hall of Fantasy than to throw one’s-self
+into the current of a theory; for, whatever landmarks of fact may be set up
+along the stream, there is a law of nature that impels it thither. And let it
+be so; for here the wise head and capacious heart may do their work; and what
+is good and true becomes gradually hardened into fact, while error melts away
+and vanishes among the shadows of the ball. Therefore may none who believe and
+rejoice in the progress of mankind be angry with me because I recognized their
+apostles and leaders amid the fantastic radiance of those pictured windows. I
+love and honor such men as well as they.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It would be endless to describe the herd of real or self styled reformers that
+peopled this place of refuge. They were the representatives of an unquiet
+period, when mankind is seeking to cast off the whole tissue of ancient custom
+like a tattered garment. Many of then had got possession of some crystal
+fragment of truth, the brightness of which so dazzled them that they could see
+nothing else in the wide universe. Here were men whose faith had embodied
+itself in the form of a potato; and others whose long beards had a deep
+spiritual significance. Here was the abolitionist, brandishing his one idea
+like an iron flail. In a word, there were a thousand shapes of good and evil,
+faith and infidelity, wisdom and nonsense,&mdash;a most incongruous throng.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Yet, withal, the heart of the stanchest conservative, unless he abjured his
+fellowship with man, could hardly have helped throbbing in sympathy with the
+spirit that pervaded these innumerable theorists. It was good for the man of
+unquickened heart to listen even to their folly. Far down beyond the fathom of
+the intellect the soul acknowledged that all these varying and conflicting
+developments of humanity were united in one sentiment. Be the individual theory
+as wild as fancy could make it, still the wiser spirit would recognize the
+struggle of the race after a better and purer life than had yet been realized
+on earth. My faith revived even while I rejected all their schemes. It could
+not be that the world should continue forever what it has been; a soil where
+Happiness is so rare a flower and Virtue so often a blighted fruit; a
+battle-field where the good principle, with its shield flung above its head,
+can hardly save itself amid the rush of adverse influences. In the enthusiasm
+of such thoughts I gazed through one of the pictured windows, and, behold! the
+whole external world was tinged with the dimly glorious aspect that is peculiar
+to the Hall of Fantasy, insomuch that it seemed practicable at that very
+instant to realize some plan for the perfection of mankind. But, alas! if
+reformers would understand the sphere in which their lot is cast they must
+cease to look through pictured windows. Yet they not only use this medium, but
+mistake it for the whitest sunshine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Come,” said I to my friend, starting from a deep revery, “let us hasten hence,
+or I shall be tempted to make a theory, after which there is little hope of any
+man.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Come hither, then,” answered he. “Here is one theory that swallows up and
+annihilates all others.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He led me to a distant part of the hall where a crowd of deeply attentive
+auditors were assembled round an elderly man of plain, honest, trustworthy
+aspect. With an earnestness that betokened the sincerest faith in his own
+doctrine, he announced that the destruction of the world was close at hand.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is Father Miller himself!” exclaimed I.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“No less a man,” said my friend; “and observe how picturesque a contrast
+between his dogma and those of the reformers whom we have just glanced at. They
+look for the earthly perfection of mankind, and are forming schemes which imply
+that the immortal spirit will be connected with a physical nature for
+innumerable ages of futurity. On the other hand, here comes good Father Miller,
+and with one puff of his relentless theory scatters all their dreams like so
+many withered leaves upon the blast.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is, perhaps, the only method of getting mankind out of the various
+perplexities into which they have fallen,” I replied. “Yet I could wish that
+the world might be permitted to endure until some great moral shall have been
+evolved. A riddle is propounded. Where is the solution? The sphinx did not slay
+herself until her riddle had been guessed. Will it not be so with the world?
+Now, if it should be burned to-morrow morning, I am at a loss to know what
+purpose will have been accomplished, or how the universe will be wiser or
+better for our existence and destruction.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“We cannot tell what mighty truths may have been embodied in act through the
+existence of the globe and its inhabitants,” rejoined my companion. “Perhaps it
+may be revealed to us after the fall of the curtain over our catastrophe; or
+not impossibly, the whole drama, in which we are involuntary actors, may have
+been performed for the instruction of another set of spectators. I cannot
+perceive that our own comprehension of it is at all essential to the matter. At
+any rate, while our view is so ridiculously narrow and superficial it would be
+absurd to argue the continuance of the world from the fact that it seems to
+have existed hitherto in vain.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“The poor old earth,” murmured I. “She has faults enough, in all conscience,
+but I cannot hear to have her perish.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is no great matter,” said my friend. “The happiest of us has been weary of
+her many a time and oft.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“I doubt it,” answered I, pertinaciously; “the root of human nature strikes
+down deep into this earthly soil, and it is but reluctantly that we submit to
+be transplanted, even for a higher cultivation in heaven. I query whether the
+destruction of the earth would gratify any one individual, except perhaps some
+embarrassed man of business whose notes fall due a day after the day of doom.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Then methought I heard the expostulating cry of a multitude against the
+consummation prophesied by Father Miller. The lover wrestled with Providence
+for his foreshadowed bliss. Parents entreated that the earth’s span of
+endurance might be prolonged by some seventy years, so that their new-born
+infant should not be defrauded of his lifetime. A youthful poet murmured
+because there would be no posterity to recognize the inspiration of his song.
+The reformers, one and all, demanded a few thousand years to test their
+theories, after which the universe might go to wreck. A mechanician, who was
+busied with an improvement of the steam-engine, asked merely time to perfect
+his model. A miser insisted that the world’s destruction would be a personal
+wrong to himself, unless he should first be permitted to add a specified sum to
+his enormous heap of gold. A little boy made dolorous inquiry whether the last
+day would come before Christmas, and thus deprive him of his anticipated
+dainties. In short, nobody seemed satisfied that this mortal scene of things
+should have its close just now. Yet, it must be confessed, the motives of the
+crowd for desiring its continuance were mostly so absurd, that unless infinite
+Wisdom had been aware of much better reasons, the solid earth must have melted
+away at once.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For my own part, not to speak of a few private and personal ends, I really
+desired our old mother’s prolonged existence for her own dear sake.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“The poor old earth!” I repeated. “What I should chiefly regret in her
+destruction would be that very earthliness which no other sphere or state of
+existence can renew or compensate. The fragrance of flowers and of new-mown
+hay; the genial warmth of sunshine, and the beauty of a sunset among clouds;
+the comfort and cheerful glow of the fireside; the deliciousness of fruits and
+of all good cheer; the magnificence of mountains, and seas, and cataracts, and
+the softer charm of rural scenery; even the fast-falling snow and the gray
+atmosphere through which it descends,&mdash;all these and innumerable other
+enjoyable things of earth must perish with her. Then the country frolics; the
+homely humor; the broad, open-mouthed roar of laughter, in which body and soul
+conjoin so heartily! I fear that no other world call show its anything just
+like this. As for purely moral enjoyments, the good will find them in every
+state of being. But where the material and the moral exist together, what is to
+happen then? And then our mute four-footed friends and the winged songsters of
+our woods! Might it not be lawful to regret them, even in the hallowed groves
+of paradise?”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“You speak like the very spirit of earth, imbued with a scent of freshly turned
+soil,” exclaimed my friend.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is not that I so much object to giving up these enjoyments on my own
+account,” continued I, “but I hate to think that they will have been eternally
+annihilated from the list of joys.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Nor need they be,” he replied. “I see no real force in what you say. Standing
+in this Hall of Fantasy, we perceive what even the earth-clogged intellect of
+man can do in creating circumstances which, though we call them shadowy and
+visionary, are scarcely more so than those that surround us in actual life.
+Doubt not then that man’s disembodied spirit may recreate time and the world
+for itself, with all their peculiar enjoyments, should there still be human
+yearnings amid life eternal and infinite. But I doubt whether we shall be
+inclined to play such a poor scene over again.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“O, you are ungrateful to our mother earth!” rejoined I. “Come what may, I
+never will forget her! Neither will it satisfy me to have her exist merely in
+idea. I want her great, round, solid self to endure interminably, and still to
+be peopled with the kindly race of man, whom I uphold to be much better than he
+thinks himself. Nevertheless, I confide the whole matter to Providence, and
+shall endeavor so to live that the world may come to an end at any moment
+without leaving me at a loss to find foothold somewhere else.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“It is an excellent resolve,” said my companion, looking at his watch. “But
+come; it is the dinner-hour. Will you partake of my vegetable diet?”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A thing so matter of fact as an invitation to dinner, even when the fare was to
+be nothing more substantial than vegetables and fruit, compelled us forthwith
+to remove from the Hall of Fantasy. As we passed out of the portal we met the
+spirits of several persons who had been sent thither in magnetic sleep. I
+looked back among the sculptured pillars and at the transformations of the
+gleaming fountain, and almost desired that the whole of life might be spent in
+that visionary scene where the actual world, with its hard angles, should never
+rub against me, and only be viewed through the medium of pictured windows. But
+for those who waste all their days in the Hall of Fantasy, good Father Miller’s
+prophecy is already accomplished, and the solid earth has come to an untimely
+end. Let us be content, therefore, with merely an occasional visit, for the
+sake of spiritualizing the grossness of this actual life, and prefiguring to
+ourselves a state in which the Idea shall be all in all.
+</p>
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                       THE HALL OF FANTASY
+
+
+
+It has happened to me, on various occasions, to find myself
+in a certain edifice which would appear to have some of the
+characteristics of a public exchange.  Its interior is a spacious
+hall, with a pavement of white marble.  Overhead is a lofty dome,
+supported by long rows of pillars of fantastic architecture, the
+idea of which was probably taken from the Moorish ruins of the
+Alhambra, or perhaps from some enchanted edifice in the Arabian
+tales.  The windows of this hall have a breadth and grandeur of
+design and an elaborateness of workmanship that have nowhere been
+equalled, except in the Gothic cathedrals of the Old World.  Like
+their prototypes, too, they admit the light of heaven only through
+stained and pictured glass, thus filling the hall with many-colored
+radiance and painting its marble floor with beautiful or grotesque
+designs; so that its inmates breathe, as it were, a visionary
+atmosphere, and tread upon the fantasies of poetic minds.  These
+peculiarities, combining a wilder mixture of styles than even an
+American architect usually recognizes as allowable,--Grecian,
+Gothic, Oriental, and nondescript,--cause the whole edifice to give
+the impression of a dream, which might be dissipated and shattered
+to fragments by merely stamping the foot upon the pavement.  Yet,
+with such modifications and repairs as successive ages demand, the
+Hall of Fantasy is likely to endure longer than the most substantial
+structure that ever cumbered the earth.
+
+It is not at all times that one can gain admittance into this
+edifice, although most persons enter it at some period or other of
+their lives; if not in their waking moments, then by the universal
+passport of a dream.  At my last visit I wandered thither unawares
+while my mind was busy with an idle tale, and was startled by the
+throng of people who seemed suddenly to rise up around me.
+
+"Bless me!  Where am I?" cried I, with but a dim recognition of the
+place.
+
+"You are in a spot," said a friend who chanced to be near at hand,
+"which occupies in the world of fancy the same position which the
+Bourse, the Rialto, and the Exchange do in the commercial world.
+All who have affairs in that mystic region, which lies above, below,
+or beyond the actual, may here meet and talk over the business of
+their dreams."
+
+"It is a noble hall," observed I.
+
+"Yes," he replied.  "Yet we see but a small portion of the edifice.
+In its upper stories are said to be apartments where the inhabitants
+of earth may hold converse with those of the moon; and beneath our
+feet are gloomy cells, which communicate with the infernal regions,
+and where monsters and chimeras are kept in confinement and fed with
+all unwholesomeness."
+
+In niches and on pedestals around about the hall stood the statues
+or busts of men who in every age have been rulers and demigods in
+the realms of imagination and its kindred regions. The grand old
+countenance of Homer; the shrunken and decrepit form but vivid face
+of AEsop; the dark presence of Dante; the wild Ariosto; Rabelais's
+smile of deep-wrought mirth, the profound, pathetic humor of
+Cervantes; the all-glorious Shakespeare; Spenser, meet guest for an
+allegoric structure; the severe divinity of Milton; and Bunyan,
+moulded of homeliest clay, but instinct with celestial fire,--were
+those that chiefly attracted my eye.  Fielding, Richardson, and
+Scott occupied conspicuous pedestals.  In an obscure and shadowy
+niche was deposited the bust of our countryman, the author of Arthur
+Mervyn.
+
+"Besides these indestructible memorials of real genius," remarked my
+companion, "each century has erected statues of its own ephemeral
+favorites in wood."
+
+"I observe a few crumbling relics of such," said I.  "But ever and
+anon, I suppose, Oblivion comes with her huge broom and sweeps them
+all from the marble floor.  But such will never be the fate of this
+fine statue of Goethe."
+
+"Nor of that next to it,--Emanuel Swedenborg," said he.  "Were ever
+two men of transcendent imagination more unlike?"
+
+In the centre of the hall springs an ornamental fountain, the water
+of which continually throws itself into new shapes and snatches the
+most diversified lines from the stained atmosphere around.  It is
+impossible to conceive what a strange vivacity is imparted to the
+scene by the magic dance of this fountain, with its endless
+transformations, in which the imaginative beholder may discern what
+form he will.  The water is supposed by some to flow from the same
+source as the Castalian spring, and is extolled by others as uniting
+the virtues of the Fountain of Youth with those of many other
+enchanted wells long celebrated in tale and song.  Having never
+tasted it, I can bear no testimony to its quality.
+
+"Did you ever drink this water?" I inquired of my friend.
+
+"A few sips now and then," answered he.  "But there are men here who
+make it their constant beverage,--or, at least, have the credit of
+doing so.  In some instances it is known to have intoxicating
+qualities."
+
+"Pray let us look at these water-drinkers," said I.
+
+So we passed among the fantastic pillars till we came to a spot
+where a number of persons were clustered together in the light of
+one of the great stained windows, which seemed to glorify the whole
+group as well as the marble that they trod on.  Most of them were
+men of broad foreheads, meditative countenances, and thoughtful,
+inward eyes; yet it required but a trifle to summon up mirth,
+peeping out from the very midst of grave and lofty musings.  Some
+strode about, or leaned against the pillars of the hall, alone and
+in silence; their faces wore a rapt expression, as if sweet music
+were in the air around them, or as if their inmost souls were about
+to float away in song.  One or two, perhaps, stole a glance at the
+bystanders, to watch if their poetic absorption were observed.
+Others stood talking in groups, with a liveliness of expression, a
+ready smile, and a light, intellectual laughter, which showed how
+rapidly the shafts of wit were glancing to and fro among them.
+
+A few held higher converse, which caused their calm and melancholy
+souls to beam moonlight from their eyes.  As I lingered near
+them,--for I felt an inward attraction towards these men, as if the
+sympathy of feeling, if not of genius, had united me to their
+order,--my friend mentioned several of their names.  The world has
+likewise heard those names; with some it has been familiar for
+years; and others are daily making their way deeper into the
+universal heart.
+
+"Thank Heaven," observed I to my companion, as we passed to another
+part of the hall, "we have done with this techy, wayward, shy, proud
+unreasonable set of laurel-gatherers.  I love them in their works,
+but have little desire to meet them elsewhere."
+
+"You have adopted all old prejudice, I see," replied my friend, who
+was familiar with most of these worthies, being himself a student of
+poetry, and not without the poetic flame.  "But, so far as my
+experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social
+qualities; and in this age there appears to be a fellow-feeling
+among them which had not heretofore been developed.  As men, they
+ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men;
+and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy,
+and acknowledge a generous brotherhood."
+
+"The world does not think so," answered I.  "An author is received
+in general society pretty much as we honest citizens are in the Hall
+of Fantasy.  We gaze at him as if he had no business among us, and
+question whether he is fit for any of our pursuits."
+
+"Then it is a very foolish question," said he.  "Now, here are a
+class of men whom we may daily meet on 'Change.  Yet what poet in
+the hall is more a fool of fancy than the sagest of them?"
+
+He pointed to a number of persons, who, manifest as the fact was,
+would have deemed it an insult to be told that they stood in the
+Hall of Fantasy.  Their visages were traced into wrinkles and
+furrows, each of which seemed the record of some actual experience
+in life.  Their eyes had the shrewd, calculating glance which
+detects so quickly and so surely all that it concerns a man of
+business to know about the characters and purposes of his fellow-men.
+Judging them as they stood, they might be honored and trusted
+members of the Chamber of Commerce, who had found the genuine secret
+of wealth and whose sagacity gave them the command of fortune.
+
+There was a character of detail and matter of fact in their talk
+which concealed the extravagance of its purport, insomuch that the
+wildest schemes had the aspect of everyday realities.  Thus the
+listener was not startled at the idea of cities to be built, as if
+by magic, in the heart of pathless forests; and of streets to be
+laid out where now the sea was tossing; and of mighty rivers to be
+stayed in their courses in order to turn the machinery of a
+cotton-mill.  It was only by an effort, and scarcely then, that the
+mind convinced itself that such speculations were as much matter of
+fantasy as the old dream of Eldorado, or as Mammon's Cave, or any
+other vision of gold ever conjured up by the imagination of needy
+poet or romantic adventurer.
+
+"Upon my word," said I, "it is dangerous to listen to such dreamers
+as these.  Their madness is contagious."
+
+"Yes," said my friend, "because they mistake the Hall of Fantasy
+for actual brick and mortar, and its purple atmosphere for
+unsophisticated sunshine.  But the poet knows his whereabout, and
+therefore is less likely to make a fool of himself in real life."
+
+"Here again," observed I, as we advanced a little farther, "we see
+another order of dreamers, peculiarly characteristic, too, of the
+genius of our country."
+
+These were the inventors of fantastic machines.  Models of their
+contrivances were placed against some of the pillars of the hall,
+and afforded good emblems of the result generally to be anticipated
+from an attempt to reduce day-dreams to practice. The analogy may
+hold in morals as well as physics; for instance, here was the model
+of a railroad through the air and a tunnel under the sea.  Here was
+a machine--stolen, I believe--for the distillation of heat from
+moonshine; and another for the condensation of morning mist into
+square blocks of granite, wherewith it was proposed to rebuild the
+entire Hall of Fantasy. One man exhibited a sort of lens whereby he
+had succeeded in making sunshine out of a lady's smile; and it was
+his purpose wholly to irradiate the earth by means of this wonderful
+invention.
+
+"It is nothing new," said I; "for most of our sunshine comes from
+woman's smile already."
+
+"True," answered the inventor; "but my machine will secure a
+constant supply for domestic use; whereas hitherto it has been very
+precarious."
+
+Another person had a scheme for fixing the reflections of objects in
+a pool of water, and thus taking the most life-like portraits
+imaginable; and the same gentleman demonstrated the practicability
+of giving a permanent dye to ladies' dresses, in the gorgeous clouds
+of sunset.  There were at least fifty kinds of perpetual motion, one
+of which was applicable to the wits of newspaper editors and writers
+of every description.  Professor Espy was here, with a tremendous
+storm in a gum-elastic bag.  I could enumerate many more of these
+Utopian inventions; but, after all, a more imaginative collection is
+to be found in the Patent Office at Washington.
+
+Turning from the inventors we took a more general survey of the
+inmates of the hall.  Many persons were present whose right of
+entrance appeared to consist in some crotchet of the brain, which,
+so long as it might operate, produced a change in their relation to
+the actual world.  It is singular how very few there are who do not
+occasionally gain admittance on such a score, either in abstracted
+musings, or momentary thoughts, or bright anticipations, or vivid
+remembrances; for even the actual becomes ideal, whether in hope or
+memory, and beguiles the dreamer into the Hall of Fantasy.  Some
+unfortunates make their whole abode and business here, and contract
+habits which unfit them for all the real employments of life.
+Others--but these are few--possess the faculty, in their occasional
+visits, of discovering a purer truth than the world call impart
+among the lights and shadows of these pictured windows.
+
+And with all its dangerous influences, we have reason to thank God
+that there is such a place of refuge from the gloom and chillness of
+actual life.  Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark
+and narrow cell and cankerous chain, to breathe free air in this
+enchanted atmosphere.  The sick man leaves his weary pillow, and
+finds strength to wander hither, though his wasted limbs might not
+support him even to the threshold of his chamber.  The exile passes
+through the Hall of Fantasy to revisit his native soil.  The burden
+of years rolls down from the old man's shoulders the moment that the
+door uncloses.  Mourners leave their heavy sorrows at the entrance,
+and here rejoin the lost ones whose faces would else be seen no
+more, until thought shall have become the only fact.  It may be
+said, in truth, that there is but half a life--the meaner and
+earthier half--for those who never find their way into the hall.
+Nor must I fail to mention that in the observatory of the edifice is
+kept that wonderful perspective-glass, through which the shepherds
+of the Delectable Mountains showed Christian the far-off gleam of
+the Celestial City.  The eye of Faith still loves to gaze through
+it.
+
+"I observe some men here," said I to my friend, "who might set up a
+strong claim to be reckoned among the most real personages of the
+day."
+
+"Certainly," he replied.  "If a man be in advance of his age, he
+must be content to make his abode in this hall until the lingering
+generations of his fellow-men come up with him.  He can find no
+other shelter in the universe.  But the fantasies of one day are the
+deepest realities of a future one."
+
+"It is difficult to distinguish them apart amid the gorgeous and
+bewildering light of this ball," rejoined I.  "The white sunshine of
+actual life is necessary in order to test them.  I am rather apt to
+doubt both men and their reasonings till I meet them in that
+truthful medium."
+
+"Perhaps your faith in the ideal is deeper than you are aware," said
+my friend.  "You are at least a democrat; and methinks no scanty
+share of such faith is essential to the adoption of that creed."
+
+Among the characters who had elicited these remarks were most of the
+noted reformers of the day, whether in physics, politics, morals, or
+religion.  There is no surer method of arriving at the Hall of
+Fantasy than to throw one's-self into the current of a theory; for,
+whatever landmarks of fact may be set up along the stream, there is
+a law of nature that impels it thither.  And let it be so; for here
+the wise head and capacious heart may do their work; and what is
+good and true becomes gradually hardened into fact, while error
+melts away and vanishes among the shadows of the ball.  Therefore
+may none who believe and rejoice in the progress of mankind be angry
+with me because I recognized their apostles and leaders amid the
+fantastic radiance of those pictured windows.  I love and honor such
+men as well as they.
+
+It would be endless to describe the herd of real or self styled
+reformers that peopled this place of refuge.  They were the
+representatives of an unquiet period, when mankind is seeking to
+cast off the whole tissue of ancient custom like a tattered garment.
+Many of then had got possession of some crystal fragment of truth,
+the brightness of which so dazzled them that they could see nothing
+else in the wide universe.  Here were men whose faith had embodied
+itself in the form of a potato; and others whose long beards had a
+deep spiritual significance.  Here was the abolitionist, brandishing
+his one idea like an iron flail.  In a word, there were a thousand
+shapes of good and evil, faith and infidelity, wisdom and nonsense,--a
+most incongruous throng.
+
+Yet, withal, the heart of the stanchest conservative, unless he
+abjured his fellowship with man, could hardly have helped throbbing
+in sympathy with the spirit that pervaded these innumerable
+theorists.  It was good for the man of unquickened heart to listen
+even to their folly.  Far down beyond the fathom of the intellect
+the soul acknowledged that all these varying and conflicting
+developments of humanity were united in one sentiment.  Be the
+individual theory as wild as fancy could make it, still the wiser
+spirit would recognize the struggle of the race after a better and
+purer life than had yet been realized on earth.  My faith revived
+even while I rejected all their schemes. It could not be that the
+world should continue forever what it has been; a soil where
+Happiness is so rare a flower and Virtue so often a blighted fruit;
+a battle-field where the good principle, with its shield flung above
+its head, can hardly save itself amid the rush of adverse
+influences.  In the enthusiasm of such thoughts I gazed through one
+of the pictured windows, and, behold! the whole external world was
+tinged with the dimly glorious aspect that is peculiar to the Hall
+of Fantasy, insomuch that it seemed practicable at that very instant
+to realize some plan for the perfection of mankind.  But, alas! if
+reformers would understand the sphere in which their lot is cast
+they must cease to look through pictured windows.  Yet they not only
+use this medium, but mistake it for the whitest sunshine.
+
+"Come," said I to my friend, starting from a deep revery, "let us
+hasten hence, or I shall be tempted to make a theory, after which
+there is little hope of any man."
+
+"Come hither, then," answered he.  "Here is one theory that swallows
+up and annihilates all others."
+
+He led me to a distant part of the hall where a crowd of deeply
+attentive auditors were assembled round an elderly man of plain,
+honest, trustworthy aspect.  With an earnestness that betokened the
+sincerest faith in his own doctrine, he announced that the
+destruction of the world was close at hand.
+
+"It is Father Miller himself!" exclaimed I.
+
+"No less a man," said my friend; "and observe how picturesque a
+contrast between his dogma and those of the reformers whom we have
+just glanced at.  They look for the earthly perfection of mankind,
+and are forming schemes which imply that the immortal spirit will be
+connected with a physical nature for innumerable ages of futurity.
+On the other hand, here comes good Father Miller, and with one puff
+of his relentless theory scatters all their dreams like so many
+withered leaves upon the blast."
+
+"It is, perhaps, the only method of getting mankind out of the
+various perplexities into which they have fallen," I replied. "Yet I
+could wish that the world might be permitted to endure until some
+great moral shall have been evolved.  A riddle is propounded.  Where
+is the solution?  The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle
+had been guessed.  Will it not be so with the world?  Now, if it
+should be burned to-morrow morning, I am at a loss to know what
+purpose will have been accomplished, or how the universe will be
+wiser or better for our existence and destruction."
+
+"We cannot tell what mighty truths may have been embodied in act
+through the existence of the globe and its inhabitants," rejoined my
+companion.  "Perhaps it may be revealed to us after the fall of the
+curtain over our catastrophe; or not impossibly, the whole drama, in
+which we are involuntary actors, may have been performed for the
+instruction of another set of spectators.  I cannot perceive that
+our own comprehension of it is at all essential to the matter.  At
+any rate, while our view is so ridiculously narrow and superficial
+it would be absurd to argue the continuance of the world from the
+fact that it seems to have existed hitherto in vain."
+
+"The poor old earth," murmured I.  "She has faults enough, in all
+conscience, but I cannot hear to have her perish."
+
+"It is no great matter," said my friend.  "The happiest of us has
+been weary of her many a time and oft."
+
+"I doubt it," answered I, pertinaciously; "the root of human nature
+strikes down deep into this earthly soil, and it is but reluctantly
+that we submit to be transplanted, even for a higher cultivation in
+heaven.  I query whether the destruction of the earth would gratify
+any one individual, except perhaps some embarrassed man of business
+whose notes fall due a day after the day of doom."
+
+Then methought I heard the expostulating cry of a multitude against
+the consummation prophesied by Father Miller.  The lover wrestled
+with Providence for his foreshadowed bliss.  Parents entreated that
+the earth's span of endurance might be prolonged by some seventy
+years, so that their new-born infant should not be defrauded of his
+lifetime.  A youthful poet murmured because there would be no
+posterity to recognize the inspiration of his song.  The reformers,
+one and all, demanded a few thousand years to test their theories,
+after which the universe might go to wreck.  A mechanician, who was
+busied with an improvement of the steam-engine, asked merely time to
+perfect his model.  A miser insisted that the world's destruction
+would be a personal wrong to himself, unless he should first be
+permitted to add a specified sum to his enormous heap of gold.  A
+little boy made dolorous inquiry whether the last day would come
+before Christmas, and thus deprive him of his anticipated dainties.
+In short, nobody seemed satisfied that this mortal scene of things
+should have its close just now.  Yet, it must be confessed, the
+motives of the crowd for desiring its continuance were mostly so
+absurd, that unless infinite Wisdom had been aware of much better
+reasons, the solid earth must have melted away at once.
+
+For my own part, not to speak of a few private and personal ends, I
+really desired our old mother's prolonged existence for her own dear
+sake.
+
+"The poor old earth!" I repeated.  "What I should chiefly regret in
+her destruction would be that very earthliness which no other sphere
+or state of existence can renew or compensate.  The fragrance of
+flowers and of new-mown hay; the genial warmth of sunshine, and the
+beauty of a sunset among clouds; the comfort and cheerful glow of
+the fireside; the deliciousness of fruits and of all good cheer; the
+magnificence of mountains, and seas, and cataracts, and the softer
+charm of rural scenery; even the fast-falling snow and the gray
+atmosphere through which it descends,--all these and innumerable
+other enjoyable things of earth must perish with her.  Then the
+country frolics; the homely humor; the broad, open-mouthed roar of
+laughter, in which body and soul conjoin so heartily!  I fear that
+no other world call show its anything just like this.  As for purely
+moral enjoyments, the good will find them in every state of being.
+But where the material and the moral exist together, what is to
+happen then?  And then our mute four-footed friends and the winged
+songsters of our woods!  Might it not be lawful to regret them, even
+in the hallowed groves of paradise?"
+
+"You speak like the very spirit of earth, imbued with a scent of
+freshly turned soil," exclaimed my friend.
+
+"It is not that I so much object to giving up these enjoyments on my
+own account," continued I, "but I hate to think that they will have
+been eternally annihilated from the list of joys."
+
+"Nor need they be," he replied.  "I see no real force in what you
+say.  Standing in this Hall of Fantasy, we perceive what even the
+earth-clogged intellect of man can do in creating circumstances
+which, though we call them shadowy and visionary, are scarcely more
+so than those that surround us in actual life.  Doubt not then that
+man's disembodied spirit may recreate time and the world for itself,
+with all their peculiar enjoyments, should there still be human
+yearnings amid life eternal and infinite. But I doubt whether we
+shall be inclined to play such a poor scene over again."
+
+"O, you are ungrateful to our mother earth!" rejoined I.  "Come what
+may, I never will forget her!  Neither will it satisfy me to have
+her exist merely in idea.  I want her great, round, solid self to
+endure interminably, and still to be peopled with the kindly race of
+man, whom I uphold to be much better than he thinks himself.
+Nevertheless, I confide the whole matter to Providence, and shall
+endeavor so to live that the world may come to an end at any moment
+without leaving me at a loss to find foothold somewhere else."
+
+"It is an excellent resolve," said my companion, looking at his
+watch.  "But come; it is the dinner-hour.  Will you partake of my
+vegetable diet?"
+
+A thing so matter of fact as an invitation to dinner, even when the
+fare was to be nothing more substantial than vegetables and fruit,
+compelled us forthwith to remove from the Hall of Fantasy. As we
+passed out of the portal we met the spirits of several persons who
+had been sent thither in magnetic sleep.  I looked back among the
+sculptured pillars and at the transformations of the gleaming
+fountain, and almost desired that the whole of life might be spent
+in that visionary scene where the actual world, with its hard
+angles, should never rub against me, and only be viewed through the
+medium of pictured windows.  But for those who waste all their days
+in the Hall of Fantasy, good Father Miller's prophecy is already
+accomplished, and the solid earth has come to an untimely end.  Let
+us be content, therefore, with merely an occasional visit, for the
+sake of spiritualizing the grossness of this actual life, and
+prefiguring to ourselves a state in which the Idea shall be all in
+all.
+
+
+
+
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                       THE HALL OF FANTASY
+
+
+
+It has happened to me, on various occasions, to find myself
+in a certain edifice which would appear to have some of the
+characteristics of a public exchange.  Its interior is a spacious
+hall, with a pavement of white marble.  Overhead is a lofty dome,
+supported by long rows of pillars of fantastic architecture, the
+idea of which was probably taken from the Moorish ruins of the
+Alhambra, or perhaps from some enchanted edifice in the Arabian
+tales.  The windows of this hall have a breadth and grandeur of
+design and an elaborateness of workmanship that have nowhere been
+equalled, except in the Gothic cathedrals of the Old World.  Like
+their prototypes, too, they admit the light of heaven only through
+stained and pictured glass, thus filling the hall with many-colored
+radiance and painting its marble floor with beautiful or grotesque
+designs; so that its inmates breathe, as it were, a visionary
+atmosphere, and tread upon the fantasies of poetic minds.  These
+peculiarities, combining a wilder mixture of styles than even an
+American architect usually recognizes as allowable,--Grecian,
+Gothic, Oriental, and nondescript,--cause the whole edifice to give
+the impression of a dream, which might be dissipated and shattered
+to fragments by merely stamping the foot upon the pavement.  Yet,
+with such modifications and repairs as successive ages demand, the
+Hall of Fantasy is likely to endure longer than the most substantial
+structure that ever cumbered the earth.
+
+It is not at all times that one can gain admittance into this
+edifice, although most persons enter it at some period or other of
+their lives; if not in their waking moments, then by the universal
+passport of a dream.  At my last visit I wandered thither unawares
+while my mind was busy with an idle tale, and was startled by the
+throng of people who seemed suddenly to rise up around me.
+
+"Bless me!  Where am I?" cried I, with but a dim recognition of the
+place.
+
+"You are in a spot," said a friend who chanced to be near at hand,
+"which occupies in the world of fancy the same position which the
+Bourse, the Rialto, and the Exchange do in the commercial world.
+All who have affairs in that mystic region, which lies above, below,
+or beyond the actual, may here meet and talk over the business of
+their dreams."
+
+"It is a noble hall," observed I.
+
+"Yes," he replied.  "Yet we see but a small portion of the edifice.
+In its upper stories are said to be apartments where the inhabitants
+of earth may hold converse with those of the moon; and beneath our
+feet are gloomy cells, which communicate with the infernal regions,
+and where monsters and chimeras are kept in confinement and fed with
+all unwholesomeness."
+
+In niches and on pedestals around about the hall stood the statues
+or busts of men who in every age have been rulers and demigods in
+the realms of imagination and its kindred regions. The grand old
+countenance of Homer; the shrunken and decrepit form but vivid face
+of AEsop; the dark presence of Dante; the wild Ariosto; Rabelais's
+smile of deep-wrought mirth, the profound, pathetic humor of
+Cervantes; the all-glorious Shakespeare; Spenser, meet guest for an
+allegoric structure; the severe divinity of Milton; and Bunyan,
+moulded of homeliest clay, but instinct with celestial fire,--were
+those that chiefly attracted my eye.  Fielding, Richardson, and
+Scott occupied conspicuous pedestals.  In an obscure and shadowy
+niche was deposited the bust of our countryman, the author of Arthur
+Mervyn.
+
+"Besides these indestructible memorials of real genius," remarked my
+companion, "each century has erected statues of its own ephemeral
+favorites in wood."
+
+"I observe a few crumbling relics of such," said I.  "But ever and
+anon, I suppose, Oblivion comes with her huge broom and sweeps them
+all from the marble floor.  But such will never be the fate of this
+fine statue of Goethe."
+
+"Nor of that next to it,--Emanuel Swedenborg," said he.  "Were ever
+two men of transcendent imagination more unlike?"
+
+In the centre of the hall springs an ornamental fountain, the water
+of which continually throws itself into new shapes and snatches the
+most diversified lines from the stained atmosphere around.  It is
+impossible to conceive what a strange vivacity is imparted to the
+scene by the magic dance of this fountain, with its endless
+transformations, in which the imaginative beholder may discern what
+form he will.  The water is supposed by some to flow from the same
+source as the Castalian spring, and is extolled by others as uniting
+the virtues of the Fountain of Youth with those of many other
+enchanted wells long celebrated in tale and song.  Having never
+tasted it, I can bear no testimony to its quality.
+
+"Did you ever drink this water?" I inquired of my friend.
+
+"A few sips now and then," answered he.  "But there are men here who
+make it their constant beverage,--or, at least, have the credit of
+doing so.  In some instances it is known to have intoxicating
+qualities."
+
+"Pray let us look at these water-drinkers," said I.
+
+So we passed among the fantastic pillars till we came to a spot
+where a number of persons were clustered together in the light of
+one of the great stained windows, which seemed to glorify the whole
+group as well as the marble that they trod on.  Most of them were
+men of broad foreheads, meditative countenances, and thoughtful,
+inward eyes; yet it required but a trifle to summon up mirth,
+peeping out from the very midst of grave and lofty musings.  Some
+strode about, or leaned against the pillars of the hall, alone and
+in silence; their faces wore a rapt expression, as if sweet music
+were in the air around them, or as if their inmost souls were about
+to float away in song.  One or two, perhaps, stole a glance at the
+bystanders, to watch if their poetic absorption were observed.
+Others stood talking in groups, with a liveliness of expression, a
+ready smile, and a light, intellectual laughter, which showed how
+rapidly the shafts of wit were glancing to and fro among them.
+
+A few held higher converse, which caused their calm and melancholy
+souls to beam moonlight from their eyes.  As I lingered near them,--
+for I felt an inward attraction towards these men, as if the
+sympathy of feeling, if not of genius, had united me to their
+order,--my friend mentioned several of their names.  The world has
+likewise heard those names; with some it has been familiar for
+years; and others are daily making their way deeper into the
+universal heart.
+
+"Thank Heaven," observed I to my companion, as we passed to another
+part of the hall, "we have done with this techy, wayward, shy, proud
+unreasonable set of laurel-gatherers.  I love them in their works,
+but have little desire to meet them elsewhere."
+
+"You have adopted all old prejudice, I see," replied my friend, who
+was familiar with most of these worthies, being himself a student of
+poetry, and not without the poetic flame.  "But, so far as my
+experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social
+qualities; and in this age there appears to be a fellow-feeling
+among them which had not heretofore been developed.  As men, they
+ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men;
+and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy,
+and acknowledge a generous brotherhood."
+
+"The world does not think so," answered I.  "An author is received
+in general society pretty much as we honest citizens are in the Hall
+of Fantasy.  We gaze at him as if he had no business among us, and
+question whether he is fit for any of our pursuits."
+
+"Then it is a very foolish question," said he.  "Now, here are a
+class of men whom we may daily meet on 'Change.  Yet what poet in
+the hall is more a fool of fancy than the sagest of them?"
+
+He pointed to a number of persons, who, manifest as the fact was,
+would have deemed it an insult to be told that they stood in the
+Hall of Fantasy.  Their visages were traced into wrinkles and
+furrows, each of which seemed the record of some actual experience
+in life.  Their eyes had the shrewd, calculating glance which
+detects so quickly and so surely all that it concerns a man of
+business to know about the characters and purposes of his fellow-
+men.  Judging them as they stood, they might be honored and trusted
+members of the Chamber of Commerce, who had found the genuine secret
+of wealth and whose sagacity gave them the command of fortune.
+
+There was a character of detail and matter of fact in their talk
+which concealed the extravagance of its purport, insomuch that the
+wildest schemes had the aspect of everyday realities.  Thus the
+listener was not startled at the idea of cities to be built, as if
+by magic, in the heart of pathless forests; and of streets to be
+laid out where now the sea was tossing; and of mighty rivers to be
+stayed in their courses in order to turn the machinery of a cotton-
+mill.  It was only by an effort, and scarcely then, that the mind
+convinced itself that such speculations were as much matter of
+fantasy as the old dream of Eldorado, or as Mammon's Cave, or any
+other vision of gold ever conjured up by the imagination of needy
+poet or romantic adventurer.
+
+"Upon my word," said I, "it is dangerous to listen to such dreamers
+as these.  Their madness is contagious."
+
+"Yes," said my friend, "because they mistake the Hall of Fantasy
+for actual brick and mortar, and its purple atmosphere for
+unsophisticated sunshine.  But the poet knows his whereabout, and
+therefore is less likely to make a fool of himself in real life."
+
+"Here again," observed I, as we advanced a little farther, "we see
+another order of dreamers, peculiarly characteristic, too, of the
+genius of our country."
+
+These were the inventors of fantastic machines.  Models of their
+contrivances were placed against some of the pillars of the hall,
+and afforded good emblems of the result generally to be anticipated
+from an attempt to reduce day-dreams to practice. The analogy may
+hold in morals as well as physics; for instance, here was the model
+of a railroad through the air and a tunnel under the sea.  Here was
+a machine--stolen, I believe--for the distillation of heat from
+moonshine; and another for the condensation of morning mist into
+square blocks of granite, wherewith it was proposed to rebuild the
+entire Hall of Fantasy. One man exhibited a sort of lens whereby he
+had succeeded in making sunshine out of a lady's smile; and it was
+his purpose wholly to irradiate the earth by means of this wonderful
+invention.
+
+"It is nothing new," said I; "for most of our sunshine comes from
+woman's smile already."
+
+"True," answered the inventor; "but my machine will secure a
+constant supply for domestic use; whereas hitherto it has been very
+precarious."
+
+Another person had a scheme for fixing the reflections of objects in
+a pool of water, and thus taking the most life-like portraits
+imaginable; and the same gentleman demonstrated the practicability
+of giving a permanent dye to ladies' dresses, in the gorgeous clouds
+of sunset.  There were at least fifty kinds of perpetual motion, one
+of which was applicable to the wits of newspaper editors and writers
+of every description.  Professor Espy was here, with a tremendous
+storm in a gum-elastic bag.  I could enumerate many more of these
+Utopian inventions; but, after all, a more imaginative collection is
+to be found in the Patent Office at Washington.
+
+Turning from the inventors we took a more general survey of the
+inmates of the hall.  Many persons were present whose right of
+entrance appeared to consist in some crotchet of the brain, which,
+so long as it might operate, produced a change in their relation to
+the actual world.  It is singular how very few there are who do not
+occasionally gain admittance on such a score, either in abstracted
+musings, or momentary thoughts, or bright anticipations, or vivid
+remembrances; for even the actual becomes ideal, whether in hope or
+memory, and beguiles the dreamer into the Hall of Fantasy.  Some
+unfortunates make their whole abode and business here, and contract
+habits which unfit them for all the real employments of life.
+Others--but these are few--possess the faculty, in their occasional
+visits, of discovering a purer truth than the world call impart
+among the lights and shadows of these pictured windows.
+
+And with all its dangerous influences, we have reason to thank God
+that there is such a place of refuge from the gloom and chillness of
+actual life.  Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark
+and narrow cell and cankerous chain, to breathe free air in this
+enchanted atmosphere.  The sick man leaves his weary pillow, and
+finds strength to wander hither, though his wasted limbs might not
+support him even to the threshold of his chamber.  The exile passes
+through the Hall of Fantasy to revisit his native soil.  The burden
+of years rolls down from the old man's shoulders the moment that the
+door uncloses.  Mourners leave their heavy sorrows at the entrance,
+and here rejoin the lost ones whose faces would else be seen no
+more, until thought shall have become the only fact.  It may be
+said, in truth, that there is but half a life--the meaner and
+earthier half--for those who never find their way into the hall.
+Nor must I fail to mention that in the observatory of the edifice is
+kept that wonderful perspective-glass, through which the shepherds
+of the Delectable Mountains showed Christian the far-off gleam of
+the Celestial City.  The eye of Faith still loves to gaze through
+it.
+
+"I observe some men here," said I to my friend, "who might set up a
+strong claim to be reckoned among the most real personages of the
+day."
+
+"Certainly," he replied.  "If a man be in advance of his age, he
+must be content to make his abode in this hall until the lingering
+generations of his fellow-men come up with him.  He can find no
+other shelter in the universe.  But the fantasies of one day are the
+deepest realities of a future one."
+
+"It is difficult to distinguish them apart amid the gorgeous and
+bewildering light of this ball," rejoined I.  "The white sunshine of
+actual life is necessary in order to test them.  I am rather apt to
+doubt both men and their reasonings till I meet them in that
+truthful medium."
+
+"Perhaps your faith in the ideal is deeper than you are aware," said
+my friend.  "You are at least a democrat; and methinks no scanty
+share of such faith is essential to the adoption of that creed."
+
+Among the characters who had elicited these remarks were most of the
+noted reformers of the day, whether in physics, politics, morals, or
+religion.  There is no surer method of arriving at the Hall of
+Fantasy than to throw one's-self into the current of a theory; for,
+whatever landmarks of fact may be set up along the stream, there is
+a law of nature that impels it thither.  And let it be so; for here
+the wise head and capacious heart may do their work; and what is
+good and true becomes gradually hardened into fact, while error
+melts away and vanishes among the shadows of the ball.  Therefore
+may none who believe and rejoice in the progress of mankind be angry
+with me because I recognized their apostles and leaders amid the
+fantastic radiance of those pictured windows.  I love and honor such
+men as well as they.
+
+It would be endless to describe the herd of real or self styled
+reformers that peopled this place of refuge.  They were the
+representatives of an unquiet period, when mankind is seeking to
+cast off the whole tissue of ancient custom like a tattered garment.
+Many of then had got possession of some crystal fragment of truth,
+the brightness of which so dazzled them that they could see nothing
+else in the wide universe.  Here were men whose faith had embodied
+itself in the form of a potato; and others whose long beards had a
+deep spiritual significance.  Here was the abolitionist, brandishing
+his one idea like an iron flail.  In a word, there were a thousand
+shapes of good and evil, faith and infidelity, wisdom and nonsense,
+--a most incongruous throng.
+
+Yet, withal, the heart of the stanchest conservative, unless he
+abjured his fellowship with man, could hardly have helped throbbing
+in sympathy with the spirit that pervaded these innumerable
+theorists.  It was good for the man of unquickened heart to listen
+even to their folly.  Far down beyond the fathom of the intellect
+the soul acknowledged that all these varying and conflicting
+developments of humanity were united in one sentiment.  Be the
+individual theory as wild as fancy could make it, still the wiser
+spirit would recognize the struggle of the race after a better and
+purer life than had yet been realized on earth.  My faith revived
+even while I rejected all their schemes. It could not be that the
+world should continue forever what it has been; a soil where
+Happiness is so rare a flower and Virtue so often a blighted fruit;
+a battle-field where the good principle, with its shield flung above
+its head, can hardly save itself amid the rush of adverse
+influences.  In the enthusiasm of such thoughts I gazed through one
+of the pictured windows, and, behold! the whole external world was
+tinged with the dimly glorious aspect that is peculiar to the Hall
+of Fantasy, insomuch that it seemed practicable at that very instant
+to realize some plan for the perfection of mankind.  But, alas! if
+reformers would understand the sphere in which their lot is cast
+they must cease to look through pictured windows.  Yet they not only
+use this medium, but mistake it for the whitest sunshine.
+
+"Come," said I to my friend, starting from a deep revery, "let us
+hasten hence, or I shall be tempted to make a theory, after which
+there is little hope of any man."
+
+"Come hither, then," answered he.  "Here is one theory that swallows
+up and annihilates all others."
+
+He led me to a distant part of the hall where a crowd of deeply
+attentive auditors were assembled round an elderly man of plain,
+honest, trustworthy aspect.  With an earnestness that betokened the
+sincerest faith in his own doctrine, he announced that the
+destruction of the world was close at hand.
+
+"It is Father Miller himself!" exclaimed I.
+
+"No less a man," said my friend; "and observe how picturesque a
+contrast between his dogma and those of the reformers whom we have
+just glanced at.  They look for the earthly perfection of mankind,
+and are forming schemes which imply that the immortal spirit will be
+connected with a physical nature for innumerable ages of futurity.
+On the other hand, here comes good Father Miller, and with one puff
+of his relentless theory scatters all their dreams like so many
+withered leaves upon the blast."
+
+"It is, perhaps, the only method of getting mankind out of the
+various perplexities into which they have fallen," I replied. "Yet I
+could wish that the world might be permitted to endure until some
+great moral shall have been evolved.  A riddle is propounded.  Where
+is the solution?  The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle
+had been guessed.  Will it not be so with the world?  Now, if it
+should be burned to-morrow morning, I am at a loss to know what
+purpose will have been accomplished, or how the universe will be
+wiser or better for our existence and destruction."
+
+"We cannot tell what mighty truths may have been embodied in act
+through the existence of the globe and its inhabitants," rejoined my
+companion.  "Perhaps it may be revealed to us after the fall of the
+curtain over our catastrophe; or not impossibly, the whole drama, in
+which we are involuntary actors, may have been performed for the
+instruction of another set of spectators.  I cannot perceive that
+our own comprehension of it is at all essential to the matter.  At
+any rate, while our view is so ridiculously narrow and superficial
+it would be absurd to argue the continuance of the world from the
+fact that it seems to have existed hitherto in vain."
+
+"The poor old earth," murmured I.  "She has faults enough, in all
+conscience, but I cannot hear to have her perish."
+
+"It is no great matter," said my friend.  "The happiest of us has
+been weary of her many a time and oft."
+
+"I doubt it," answered I, pertinaciously; "the root of human nature
+strikes down deep into this earthly soil, and it is but reluctantly
+that we submit to be transplanted, even for a higher cultivation in
+heaven.  I query whether the destruction of the earth would gratify
+any one individual, except perhaps some embarrassed man of business
+whose notes fall due a day after the day of doom."
+
+Then methought I heard the expostulating cry of a multitude against
+the consummation prophesied by Father Miller.  The lover wrestled
+with Providence for his foreshadowed bliss.  Parents entreated that
+the earth's span of endurance might be prolonged by some seventy
+years, so that their new-born infant should not be defrauded of his
+lifetime.  A youthful poet murmured because there would be no
+posterity to recognize the inspiration of his song.  The reformers,
+one and all, demanded a few thousand years to test their theories,
+after which the universe might go to wreck.  A mechanician, who was
+busied with an improvement of the steam-engine, asked merely time to
+perfect his model.  A miser insisted that the world's destruction
+would be a personal wrong to himself, unless he should first be
+permitted to add a specified sum to his enormous heap of gold.  A
+little boy made dolorous inquiry whether the last day would come
+before Christmas, and thus deprive him of his anticipated dainties.
+In short, nobody seemed satisfied that this mortal scene of things
+should have its close just now.  Yet, it must be confessed, the
+motives of the crowd for desiring its continuance were mostly so
+absurd, that unless infinite Wisdom had been aware of much better
+reasons, the solid earth must have melted away at once.
+
+For my own part, not to speak of a few private and personal ends, I
+really desired our old mother's prolonged existence for her own dear
+sake.
+
+"The poor old earth!" I repeated.  "What I should chiefly regret in
+her destruction would be that very earthliness which no other sphere
+or state of existence can renew or compensate.  The fragrance of
+flowers and of new-mown hay; the genial warmth of sunshine, and the
+beauty of a sunset among clouds; the comfort and cheerful glow of
+the fireside; the deliciousness of fruits and of all good cheer; the
+magnificence of mountains, and seas, and cataracts, and the softer
+charm of rural scenery; even the fast-falling snow and the gray
+atmosphere through which it descends,--all these and innumerable
+other enjoyable things of earth must perish with her.  Then the
+country frolics; the homely humor; the broad, open-mouthed roar of
+laughter, in which body and soul conjoin so heartily!  I fear that
+no other world call show its anything just like this.  As for purely
+moral enjoyments, the good will find them in every state of being.
+But where the material and the moral exist together, what is to
+happen then?  And then our mute four-footed friends and the winged
+songsters of our woods!  Might it not be lawful to regret them, even
+in the hallowed groves of paradise?"
+
+"You speak like the very spirit of earth, imbued with a scent of
+freshly turned soil," exclaimed my friend.
+
+"It is not that I so much object to giving up these enjoyments on my
+own account," continued I, "but I hate to think that they will have
+been eternally annihilated from the list of joys."
+
+"Nor need they be," he replied.  "I see no real force in what you
+say.  Standing in this Hall of Fantasy, we perceive what even the
+earth-clogged intellect of man can do in creating circumstances
+which, though we call them shadowy and visionary, are scarcely more
+so than those that surround us in actual life.  Doubt not then that
+man's disembodied spirit may recreate time and the world for itself,
+with all their peculiar enjoyments, should there still be human
+yearnings amid life eternal and infinite. But I doubt whether we
+shall be inclined to play such a poor scene over again."
+
+"O, you are ungrateful to our mother earth!" rejoined I.  "Come what
+may, I never will forget her!  Neither will it satisfy me to have
+her exist merely in idea.  I want her great, round, solid self to
+endure interminably, and still to be peopled with the kindly race of
+man, whom I uphold to be much better than he thinks himself.
+Nevertheless, I confide the whole matter to Providence, and shall
+endeavor so to live that the world may come to an end at any moment
+without leaving me at a loss to find foothold somewhere else."
+
+"It is an excellent resolve," said my companion, looking at his
+watch.  "But come; it is the dinner-hour.  Will you partake of my
+vegetable diet?"
+
+A thing so matter of fact as an invitation to dinner, even when the
+fare was to be nothing more substantial than vegetables and fruit,
+compelled us forthwith to remove from the Hall of Fantasy. As we
+passed out of the portal we met the spirits of several persons who
+had been sent thither in magnetic sleep.  I looked back among the
+sculptured pillars and at the transformations of the gleaming
+fountain, and almost desired that the whole of life might be spent
+in that visionary scene where the actual world, with its hard
+angles, should never rub against me, and only be viewed through the
+medium of pictured windows.  But for those who waste all their days
+in the Hall of Fantasy, good Father Miller's prophecy is already
+accomplished, and the solid earth has come to an untimely end.  Let
+us be content, therefore, with merely an occasional visit, for the
+sake of spiritualizing the grossness of this actual life, and
+prefiguring to ourselves a state in which the Idea shall be all in
+all.
+
+
+
+
+
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