Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Strife of Life: A Book of Modern Verse
About this time another German reader found it somewhat of a task to determine that this poet was a non-entity. He de clared concerning a certain poem about Buddha and Christ, later admired by Theologians and others, that the author of these verses, since a layman, could have no knowledge of theological wisdom and should therefore humbly permit only profes sional men to write verses on religious themes. Verily, a fine literary standpoint, concerning which I need add nothing in refutation! Among the things which the reverend gentleman did not know was the fact, though it was unimportant and non-essential! That the writer of that German book of verses happened to be indeed a colleague and a theolog, a young doctor of phisosophy, who had studied theology at home and abroad for some years, and was therefore not unversed with his theme, having devoted special studies to comparative religions and studied oriental wisdom in the original tongue. Though one thing, to be sure, had been neglected. Had the poet signed his double title, and legitimately made his professional bow, everything would have been different. As it was, there naturally appeared on the title-page only the simple and unknown name cf an obscure little light, if light at all.
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