Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1928, Page 29

THE. SUNDAY PART a n. ¢ ¥hhe ¥ Canii tur vied from Thivd Page) forms —growth and dissolution, uction ge and decay. evolution life and death. repro- actic Venus” and “Mars. " forms begin and have thelr end v atoms. space and lay remain: birth is & prelude 1o death. and even this massive universe wiil thaw and flow back into formlessnesc o single thing abides. but all things fiow. rrasment to fragment mngs thus grv we Know A clings. the and name them of Civilization renews the face of the earth Indi- vidually we miss tmmortality. but col- lectively we are deathless; we are cells that fall from the body of life, that more vigorous and vital cells may take our place. And at the grave of the old. who have lived out their vears and quietly return to the sheltering peace of the earth. rose-cheeked children stand and sap vouths. ready te the ceascless adventure o h is the instrument of growth, natural selection of > healthy and clever and strong and (hese spots dwell soothing joys; there- fore here Is the real understanding or mind ot man. All the rest of the soul, disseminated throughout the body, obeys and moves at the will and in lination of this visceral “mind.” Simi. Jarly, sensation is @ material process; every object sends out particles whose {mpingement upon our senses Causes the sensation, “the outermost surface is ever streaming off from things.” “This will become fashionable science, as radioactivity, after 20 centuries. Newton will explain light as the emana tion of material particles from the ob- ject upon the retina: Young and a thousand physicists will_confute him, and the lapse of time will bring stu- dents back to the Newtonian-! Lucretian- Epicurean-Democritean view. 8o sci- entific “verities” are like hats, which will come Into fashion again 1% they are superfority. since the whatever, will avall to ronse sensation in us if the carth shall be mingled with the mind Hades, it erases to be an evil, and may be met with a certaln When we are alive, argues, death does not exist for us; nor does it exist for us when we are dead: is mortal, when we shall no more be, philosophical sea #nd the sea with heaven.” deatin: we are dead we are so dead lhl\t we do not know that we are dead. there then in life so it come in the end to s shall we not “What is ‘)n%llll bitter, eep and peace? (with Swinburne) thank \hatever gods there be that every river Juns at last into some ocean, and the mortal coll of grief and pain can at last | he shuffied off forever? relief to the unhappy Tucretius to be- lfeve that even the cruelest god cannot make him suffer beyond the gates of and so he offers us strange con- | It is & great nothing thinks, will not take oo seriously the magnificent. and marvelous inventions of his race; these are but. variations and improvements in the means with which mankind secks old and unchanging ends: behind the new powers of eye and | arm are the ancient greeds and cruel- ties of she sonl. Only che surface alters, knowledge gro! from more to more, | but of what, use is it when human pur- poses remain as contradictory. as sul clidal, as before? Fadem omnia sem says this gloomy 1 of Roman thinkers: “All thin re always the same”; only fashions change, Yes, some nations, some individuals snml'. l;?ll:fi"‘:. are moving forward inch B by inch, e armies ranged as little | religion counsels men.” It is a sad | ¥ | e i ; \nm 5a ruihleas as it 1a strong; (bub|BIis UBON, & TSRy buc other nations. | us we begin (o die. X bk others wane, and every spot to see If where behold her lost voungling: then, each time she desists from her search she fills the leafy woods with her moanings, and goes back to her stall plerced 1 the heart by the loss of her calf. Nor can the soft wil- nor the grass quickened wiih w. nor yon rivers gliding level with their, hanis. comfort. her soul or put away the care that has entered Tier heart ‘The culminating horror of all is human_sacrifice, as when Agamemnon offers Iphigenia to win a little wind from heaven; Tantum religlo potuit suadere malorum. “lo crimes so great he not. hen if ‘Some nations wax, n a brief space the but it the s that quiet | things good. | pleasure, guide of life; | poetfe, not moral license counsel, a8 with Epicurus, |ordering of the s, Ahat zdilke | i recignation and despar | taraxia, which preserves flesir | 5 ripe for Chrisifanity | from 1" only by dulling cvery sen: (Cop e ! Laereting, torn with p nd emo- : | tonz, lified to poetry while he = tates’ philcsophy. longs for th: man’s calm—"to he able to Inok on things ith & mind at rest the outset, of hi ; 2 picasant mewps 52 ¢ Y of peace It i sweet when o winds trouble the from land another's der not that it is a pleasure 2 that any should b afficte cause If is sweet to cer ev''s you are your fe But nothing to hold the loft and nt w 2 Relizious and LONDON. — Ju fietion ook the lead Deoka published di aied 12810, 2 nan rren literature 2nd 1 the increase of ng 1927 which to- is only | tired sorls and make them live again. final | When Plato's passion, hopeful of subsides into the Lucre the wor rant.) JUVENILE BOOKS LEAD. Poetic Works Next in Englanz. ftish pub- in the on of the untintelligent on which the develop- life depends. patiently preserved Since the soul staucture of the body and with it decays. | mortality Soctety | races of living things are changed and as well fortified I the midst of this aitack upon re- (I PURES MG Q6L tRG KR ST G ban athers {ligion Lucreuus finds time for many |once so fertile, and bred so brave a | wandering all diversions in many fields of science: | nation, approaches exhaustion, and av In their s Ol astonishing what a range he | threatens the existence of ihe stale | of life—see the contet : | evers and how sound 18 his varied | (men will write, in the twentieth cen- ~of intellect. the o ition" As he enters npon Book | tury, hooks purporting to discover this | striving nigish o cansbidie) Fifth we imagine ourselves listening to | fundamental cause of the “fa passing effort o i some expert in anthropology: here s |Rome) “The sorrowful planter summit of power He thinks. with Spencer. thai re- (G S 0 development—of the | impeaches the ‘march of time. and the world. = Oh. m g ‘arose through dreams, in which | yie O 0 TR SOOI effect in | wearles ~heaven. comprebending not | men! O, blinded L end walked s 1f alive and made | SHRERS & TEHORC 14 individualistic | that all things ‘are gradually wasting | kind toils ever e ik som: nbode must he from |TortetitE BT U e family and fts AWaV and passing to ihe grave life in_gro which these ghosts return o pester| o uily intn cocial organization: how * ¥ they have not fheir poctarlty. Tnstead of tracing Te | s cyength that came of soclal order = py, trile end of gettl {iizion ol the dostes "r;‘ (’:;:‘r‘":t(:"“:‘ {enabled man n conaner the anfmat: | juer moint. geniine oiea the lanzing 10 M Y land establ his supremacy on There 15 na jov in him eveasng: by iav Toct, he reduces L to @ fear of the | ooy how language grew out of £ fusie v camiediUe deadt, and buttresses hs argument with | ¢ loq mugic from the imitation of | sternness friving out tae will to tive | anepraixed %" mcemiat of the dnhuman | R GIS T e through the fric- | ang the sest of love, but. almost | 0o the migt crifices with which men have SOUBNt yion or dry boughs and leaves under the | pramonition of Christianity is upon our Tt may be <o slake the thirst of the gods. | hot. sun: how from the use of nails and | poet, filling him with a sense of uni-| Nietzsche was right Thus many a time before the |teeth man passed to the invention of | versal vanity and inevitable death. His- | S0 reasonable it i teous shrines a calf falls sacri- ;a thousand helping tools. | tory, which is the joke book of philos ‘This attempt t ficed beside the incense-smoking But even as our spirits warm with | phers, was never $o facetious as when | Succeeds: it i fi e e i Trom the breast spurts a | this brilliant survey of the progress of |t gave to the sainily Epicurus and the Lght: for in our se e of blood: but the he- | man from savagery to civilizatlon, from | somber Lucretius the joyous name of | chilled wit: B e mothor. as sh® ranges over |barbarism to humanity. the 'stern | Epicureans | of love will come {he green Jawns, knows the foot- |philosopher and poet blpts out the sun| It is true that the great poem calls |apostles of a we prints stamped on the ground by the :\Uth his picture of inevitable and uni- | upon “alma Venus” and “Dux vitae dia | bre f fire f Slven ioniestannig wiher eves | sorealidissolubion. e wie) syt 1V gluptasiervalive lover: anaiidins) GAllies WIlEanaepidamn | versal dissolution. ‘The wise man, he | Voluptas - creaiive love, and divine ' Galilee will sweep 0., 827-829 7TH ST. N.W. solation H Roen 17 thers jurk ociind some veil shares the material it grows wiri it | There Is no i | more sky fabled Maker, tbe Immortal the carth ot things of nd limbs; some with- without hands. some some without eves ster of this kind ed. but in vain, for ban on their se not reach the coveted ind food, nor be 3 in And e vaces of living things must 2 have dicd out and heen unahle i continue their breed of all thinzs which ing the hreath of e monsters. 100, ot The ta produce, ) Teady {0 forture each poor life he made “Fhou eanst do more than God ean — What! Shall the dateless worlds in | dust be blown ack to (he unremembe:sa and un- known. And this fraif thou vesterdav Burn on of slowly to the eternal i this flame of rlorn, immortal and alone? be dles ture, hi, d 1t for this = mizht me n the nurseries of the the: Neture whose heed- thing in th Fpterrean and the pag 15 the onle of lacking Doy sailny Fptenens hinwrecked asto At onl Bt f light? hat is g bleating on the shores ted and preserved N’("I pa: Courage has | It it there” ell it iz < STOWS oL 17 t5 limbs be yours or |10 s Less than : the babe was | s 1o fiight the stag. vesterday | oso 10 whom nature has ‘Th~ man tomorftow shall be less than | e qualities would This. and booty of brought their Acryis £89.766 over shall othex 5831471, a r seythes of whitene:ss Tissue by tiswue {0 a soul’he grows, | aiihs of the importa. 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