Excerpt: ...mind. Even the light Frenchman murmurs, Moi, moi, chaque jour courbant plus bas ma tete Je passeet refroidi sous ce soleil joyeux, Je men irai bientot, au milieu de la fete, Sans que rien manque au monde immense et radieux. But our Haji is not Nihilistic in the no-nothing sense of Hoods poem, or, as the American phrases it, There is nothing new, nothing true, and it dont signify. His is a healthy wail over the shortness, and the miseries of life, because he finds all created things Measure the world, with Me ...
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Excerpt: ...mind. Even the light Frenchman murmurs, Moi, moi, chaque jour courbant plus bas ma tete Je passeet refroidi sous ce soleil joyeux, Je men irai bientot, au milieu de la fete, Sans que rien manque au monde immense et radieux. But our Haji is not Nihilistic in the no-nothing sense of Hoods poem, or, as the American phrases it, There is nothing new, nothing true, and it dont signify. His is a healthy wail over the shortness, and the miseries of life, because he finds all created things Measure the world, with Me immense. He reminds us of St. Augustine (Med. c. 21). Vita haec, vita misera, vita caduca, vita incerta, vita laboriosa, vita immunda, vita domina malorum, regina superborum, plena miseriis et erroribus . . . Quam humores tumidant, escae inflant, jejunia macerant, joci dissolvunt, tristitiae consumunt; sollicitudo coarctat, securitas hebetat, divitiae inflant et jactant. Paupertas dejicit, juventus extollit, senectus incurvat, importunitas frangit, maeror deprimit. Et his malis omnibus mors furibunda succedit. But for furibunda the Pilgrim would perhaps read benedicta. With Cardinal Newman, one of the glories of our age, Haji Abdu finds the Light of the world nothing else than the Prophets scroll, full of lamentations and mourning and woe. I cannot refrain from quoting all this fine passage, if it be only for the sake of its lame and shallow deduction. To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history and the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts, and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of long-standing facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution (!) of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things as if from unreasoning elements, not towards fin
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