What a Self is the Jesus of the Gospels!
A cousin of mine had an evening class of poor girls. She was trying
to explain to them the words 'liquid' and 'solid.'
'You walked over the bridge; it was a hard road.'
'Yes, teacher.'
'If you had gone down by the side of the bridge you could not have
walked across there?'
'No, teacher.'
'If you were to try and were to put your feet on the water, where
would you go?'
'To hell, teacher.'
The association of the question, 'Where would you go?' was too
strong.
This sunset, which is common to the whole county, is more to me than
anything exclusively mine.
If emotion be profound, symbolism, as a means of expression, is
indispensable.
There would be no objection to 'telling the truth' about Burns,
Byron, and Shelley if it could be told. But it cannot be told. We
are informed that they did this or that, and the thing they did is
to us what it would be if done by ourselves.
We are most vain of that which is least ourselves, of that which is
acquired, put on, stuck in.
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