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If you +are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the +country where you are located before using this eBook. +</div> +<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> +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: September 6, 2003 [eBook #9226]<br /> +[Most recently updated: November 9, 2022]</div> +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> +<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: David Widger and Al Haines</div> +<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HALL OF FANTASY ***</div> + +<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,—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. +</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,—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,—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,—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,—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. +</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—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. +</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—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. +</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—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. +</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,—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,—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--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HALL OF FANTASY ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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