Towards Democracy By E Carpenter Complete Ed PDF Download

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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... The sun, the moon and the stars, the grass, the water that flows round the earth, and the light air of heaven: To You greeting. I too stand behind these and send you word across them. I. Freedom at last! Long sought, long prayed for--ages and ages long: The burden to which I continually return, seated here thick-booted and obvious yet dead and buried and passed into heaven, unsearchable (how know you indeed but what I have passed into you?); And Joy, beginning but without ending--the journey of journeys--Thought laid quietly aside: These things I, writing, translate for you--I wipe a mirror and place it in your hands. ii. The sun shines, as of old; the stars look down from heaven; the moon, crescent, sails in the twilight; on bushy tops in the warm nights, naked, with mad dance and song, the earth-children address themselves to love; Civilisation sinks and swims, but the old facts remain--the sun smiles, knowing well its strength. The little red stars appear once more on the hazel boughs, shining among the catkins; over waste lands the pewit tumbles and cries as at the first day; men with horses go out on the land--they shout and chide and strive--and return again glad at evening; the old earth breathes deep and rhythmically, night and day, summer and winter, giving and concealing herself. I arise out of the dewy night and shake my wings. Tears and lamentations are no more. Life and death lie stretched below me. I breathe the sweet aether blowing of the breath of God. Deep as the universe is my life--and I know it; nothing can dislodge the knowledge of it; nothing can destroy, nothing can harm me. Joy, joy arises--I arise. The sun darts overpowering piercing rays of joy through me, the night radiates it from me. I take wings through the...