Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... LIFE'S RELATIONS. The relations of life are not tyrannical In the Flan of the Nature of Things. Why, now: If I clasp your hand, must I let it bind me? If I catch your step, must I lock-step with you always? If we vibrate brain-purpose together, Must I or you bow Knee to you or me? If we meet in the pure flame of love, Must time find us, not twain, but just one sole? I hold to my Self. Out of the star-depths Self came; Into the star-depths Self goes. I must keep mine individual Name. I say! Let us two (or more) walk together On the long, long way of life -- Or the ekies be fair, or in every kind of weather-- But, pray you, have done with ownership! For I am I, Unquenchable, indestructible, unbindable; And I give you -- mayhap the half of me, But no more, on pain of the loss of my Self. What will you? A live soul, Or a part of your dead Self? (For he who insists on the whole of another (Dies in himself and the other entombs (In a death-smelling sepulchre). Nay, soul! I stand in awe of your selfhood -- Reciprocate! . . So . . now I see harmony And power for each! I will pair with you, my friend; I will surrender and adore, my beloved: But, be thou THYSELF, as I am SELF. So shall either for other sing, With all the uncounted, '/ ami And I am! And I am Power!" -- The Aptbob. CHAPTER X. Some Of Life's Relations. "Have the honor due In living out thy nature."--Robert Browning. XPERIENCE marks man the superior animal. It is only through experience that we can 1 know. Even the instincts are mere impulses of human nature, and we can know what they are and how they work, not before they have occurred, but thereafter. So, also, innate intuitions of truth obtain as impulsive activities of the self in mind, and that the intuitions are truths can be...
