The Clouds (A Play in Three Acts) ...Poet Lore Company, 1911 - 76 pages |
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Page 472 - Drunken often is God's man without wine." — Rumi. "Trunken mussen wir alle sein! Jugend ist Trunkheit ohne Wein, Trinkt sich das Alter wieder zur Jugend, So ist es wundervolle Tugend." — Goethe. Hafiz wrote in "the divine, high piping Pahlevi" of Omar. His admirers called him "the tongue of the Unseen." Hafiz and Anacreon are the two poets whose reading is said to bring madness.
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Page 489 - Under the Open Sky Being a Year with Nature By SAMUEL CHRISTIAN SCHMUCKER Author o/" The Study of Nature," With colored frontispiece, many fullpage Illustrations and marginal decorations.
Page 483 - For this antithesis of a king over against the people as the Many, there appears to be no solution; unless by a complete change of attitude toward the state, we can show why the universal should be identified with the end of society. Though we admit, if it is a fact, that the ideals of society triumph over those of any individual, even a king's, yet we cannot say why it should be so.
Page 484 - Gaunt's attitude (I, 508). His skepticism implies that even a king cannot act contrary to natural laws. A king's power lies in being at one with nature, not opposed. So far as kingship is a divine right, just so far is it arbitrary and non-natural. Arbitrary, extra-natural kingship, Gaunt implies, has no real power. Even York in his assiduity to profess his reverence for the old authority lets slip a question on the king's justice, implying that though he be king by ' fair sequence and succession,'...
Page 485 - The king, like other individuals, owes his service to the state. (Ill, 421-5.) In fact the king, just because the leader of the people, because he embodies and secures their ends, resigns his individuality to see it re-expressed in the life of the whole. The grim-minded gardener gives expression to a vulgar point of view. (Ill, 513.) He forgets that the leaders in a society embody the ideals which are only incipient in the group as a whole, and the * top-lofty ' ones are needed to shape institutions...
Page 483 - The drama occurs in the warring of the traditions of the king as a universal individual, and the growing consciousness of a real life coextensive with society. Why is it that the king by divine right comes to an unhappy end ? There is no answer in the mere record of history, and to the inquiring mind there is a certain sense of defeat.
Page 483 - ... expressions in general literature. For political philosophy Shakespeare's King Richard II offers a field for investigation. As we pass from Shakespeare's early period to such a work as this we notice a radical change in his attitude. He is no longer...
Page 483 - ... reflective attitude which history recognizes as an inevitable accompaniment of the renaissance. The questions of what is real and true; what is universal; what reality and what universality have individuals, we here have translated into the corresponding terms of politics. They may be stated as follows : What is real and universal in the state ? The old dogma of kingship is brought into question.
Page 485 - But this justice, far from being an instrument for the maintenance of recognized good, is only the personal interest of a universal individual. The king talks about ' the unstooping firmness of my upright soul/ but this may be regarded as the abstraction for that justice and pretentious righteousness which must be expected as an element in an absolute monarch. Richard's...