Part 22 (1/2)
Well, I think I'll be pushi+n' on I on'y got a sort o' rough idear where this mill is; an' there ain't many people this side o' the river to inquire off of; an' ood day”
”Are you a saciousof this tobacco”
Now that enuine, and I spoke in ic word vibrated accurately and unmistakably on the paralysed tympanum Let your so-called scientists account for that
”If you can spare it,” replied the swagman, with aniot in this world; an' I jist used up the dust out o' ood day
I ht be able to do the same for you some time”
”Thou speakest wiser than thou art 'ware of,” I soliloquised as I watched his retreating figure, whilst lighting my pipe ”As the other philosopher, Tycho Brahe, found inspiration in the gibberish of his idiot companion, so do I find food for reflection in thy casual courtesy, hest point of all lory, I haste now toFrom a Deputy-assistant-Sub-Inspector--with the mortuary reversion of the assistant-Sub-Inspectorshi+p itself--to a swagman, bluey on shoulder and billy in hand, is as easy as falling off a playful er I smoked, the more charmed I ith the rounded symmetry and steady lustre of that pearl of truth which the swaght forth out of his treasury For philosophy is no warrant against destitution, as biography amply vouches Neither is tireless industry, nor mechanical skill, nor artistic culture--if unaccompanied by that business aptitude which tends to the survival of the shrewdest; and not even then, if a person's uard If the author of the Thirty-seventh Psalhteous well represented a the unemployed, and his seed in the Industrial Schools For correction of the Psalo no further down the very restricted stream of Sacred History than the date of the typical Lazarus Continually iiven h he may bury his foolish head in the sand, and think himself safe There lives no one on earth to day who holds even the fliainst a pauper's death, and a pauper's grave If he be as rich as Croesus, let hie since 550 BC has by no means been in the direction of fixity of tenure
Where are one-half of the fortunes of twenty years ago?--and where will the other half be in twenty years ain seen the wealthy e himself with a bit of crockery, but happily too broken to find an inhurants whos of his flock I could write you a column of these emirs' names
And if there is one impudent interpolation in the Bible, it is to be found in the last chapter of that ancient Book of Job The original writer conceived a tragedy, anticipating the grandeur of the Oedipus at Colonos, or Lear--and here eight supplementary verses have anti-climaxed this ave Job twice as much as he had before,” &c, &c Tut-tut! Job's hu but death could heal
Is there any rich ine a cos under the bridge?--that hthood and ine a combination that would have quartered me in that airy colonnade--nay, that may do so before this day week; and e as well as another, a plague of e of a precipice; any one of us ed down by another
And this is as it ought to be Justice is done, and the sky does not fall
For, froher point of view, the Sabians and Chaldeans of the present day don't dislocate society; they only alter the incidence of existing dislocation; and all this works steadily towards a restoration--if not of some old Saturnian or Jahvistic Paradise-idyll, at least of a Divine intention and human ideal
Vicissitude of fortune is the very hand of ”the Eternal, not ourselves, that hteousness,” the manifestation of the Power behind moral evolution; and we islation for this antidote to a grievous disease; we may rest confident that whilst this best of all possible worlds reeo shall not lack fulfilment--the poor shall never cease out of the land And no man knohen his own turn may come But all this is strictly conditional
Collective hudoes have pictured in colours that never fade The kingdoive it form and effect, a local habitation and a name In the meantime, our reluctance to submit to the terms of citizenshi+p has no more effect on the iron law of citizen reciprocity than our disapproval has on the process of the seasons; for see how, in the great huuilty; and not only are the sins of the fathers visited upon the children, but my sins are visited upon your children, and your sins upon some one else's children; so that, if we decline a brotherhood ofand honour, we alternatively accept one of nonition, but flesh and blood will assuredly tire before that principle tires
It is precisely in relation to the palingenesis of Humanity that, to the unseen Will, one day is said to be as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day A Divine Idea points the way, clearly apparent to any vision not warped by interest or prejudice, nor darkened by ignorance; but the work is man's alone, and its period rests within this reverie was uest (Of course,it here is sier shi+vering on the brink of the disclosures to which I a like the dooer near his throat, trying -place by the recitation of heroic poetry Trust o on with the narrative as soon as I choose)
I did n't want to think of Andy personally Intuition whispered to man, ould have parted his last sprat to a former mate, hadn't that humble coin in his pocket; whilst purse-pride hinted that I had four sovereigns and some loose silver infor me in Hay If I had allowed my mind to dwell on these two intrusive intimations, they would have seeh when the opportunity of ether with our artificial, yet not unpraiseworthy, repugnance to offering a ht me out rather a Levite than a Samaritan In mere self-defence, I would have been constrained to keep up a series of general and iman lost his individuality--say, five or six hours--but I was rescued froy on the other side of the river
Idly turning nised one of the five or six miles down the river, on the Victorian side I rose and walked to the brink as the buggy came opposite
”hello! Mr B----,” I shouted
”hello! Collins I thought you ay back When did you coive us a call?”
”Could n't get across the river without sacrifice of dignity and coh You can start off now I' across here with Mr G----, to see some sheep, but I'll be back toward sundown
I'll tell you how you'll ht down the road till you come to the old horse-paddock, nearly opposite our place; then turn to your left, down along the fence----”
”No use, Mr B---- I want to get away to-ether----”
”Yes; I know all about that But you s I want your opinion about”