Edward Carpenter: Poet and ProphetA. C. Fifield, 1905 - 50 ページ |
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9 ページ - Well, as it happened just then — and as we stopped at a small way station — my eyes from their swoon-sleep opening, encountered the grimy and oil-besmeared figure of a stoker. Close at my elbow on the footplate of his engine he was standing, devouring bread and cheese. And the fire-light fell on him brightly as for a moment his eyes rested on mine. That was all, but it was enough. The youthful face, yet so experienced and calm, was enough ; The...
17 ページ - If you have fortune and good health and a loving wife and children, you cannot also be 123 of those who are happy without these things. Covet not overmuch. Let the strong desires come and go; refuse them not, disown them not ; but think not that in them lurks finally the thing you want.
16 ページ - For the 'I' neither desires nor fears anything, but is free and in everlasting glory, dwelling in heaven and pouring out joy like the sun on all sides. Let not that precious thing by any confusion be drawn down and entangled in the world of opposites, and of death and suffering. "For as a lighthouse beam sweeps with incredible speed over sea and land, yet the lamp...
34 ページ - England to-day to live dependent on others, consuming much and creating next to nothing— to occupy a spacious house, have servants ministering to you, dividends converging from various parts of the world towards you, workmen handing you the best part of their labor as profits, tenants obsequiously bowing as they disgorge their rent...
16 ページ - the earth gives her own laws," and it is upon the authority of these that his condemnation of landlordism is based, and of many sequential abuses inseparable from the system : "I come forth from the darkness to smite Thee. — Who art thou, insolent of all the earth, With thy faint sneer for him who wins thee bread, And him who clothes thee, and for him who toils Daylong and nightlong dark in the earth for thee? Coward, without a name! Ignorant curse! — and yet with names as many Alas! almost...
16 ページ - For (over and over again) there is nothing that is evil except because a man has not mastery over it; and there is no good thing that is not evil if it have mastery over a man; And there is no passion or power, or pleasure or pain, or created thing whatsoever, which is not ultimately for man and for his use — or which he need be afraid of, or ashamed at.
42 ページ - Even now society like a chrysalis writhes in the birth-throes of the winged creature within. Equality — the vanishing of the centuries-long conflict between the individual and his fellows — the attainment by each man of a point where all this war of interests ceases to exist, and the barriers which divide man from man are thrown down — this is indeed that Freedom for which all of history has been one long struggle and preparation.