This air so crystal clear, so far above incense and the narcotics of set
creeds, and the fevered breath of prayers and protestations.
Those whose temperaments and religions show them all things so plainly
that they know they are right and others wrong?
For if they do not find it ridiculous to feel contempt, they are
perfectly right to feel contempt, it being natural to them; and you have
no business to be sorry for them, for that is, after all, only your
euphemism for contempt.
The cause of atrocities is generally the violence of Fear. Panic's at
the back of most crimes and follies.
Civilisation, so possessed by a new toy each day that she has no time to
master its use--naive creature lost amid her own discoveries!
For there was in his smile the glamour of adventure just for the sake of
danger; all that high instinct which takes a man out of his chair to
brave what he need not.