The Hive

the commonplaces of the world. It is the spirit of everything worth while, but that means nothing to one who has not a breath of it in his own body.... A story went forth from

rtrayal where it has broken through into terms of three-space. First you are apt to get the nearest and most striking picture of

superficial crack, but an abyss. It is so now. The Old has reached its climacteric point of destructivity. All self-passions destroy themselves in time. Fear, greed, sensuality-all are self-destructive

iscern. Many a child has been driven with a soul-wound into corroding silence by parents who thought they were punishing falsehood, when they were in reality repressing the imagination-the faculty whic

begun to lie. We must forget he

they, too, dream dreams and see visions and have the rapt eyes of Joan in the forests of Domremy; they, too, are

wan and the Star and the Beloved, are never carried along on the levels and inequalities of the earth-always the uplifted face for the saint and the sage and the seer. Great parents kneel beside their children and beg to be delivered from the

ost in the bulkier products and possessions it meant to measure and signify. More and more has gold itself hid away from vulgar hands and been represented by

or light and air, for sun and sky and water, for fruits and grains and bees, for stars and rains and romances. They say such things are holy. Words are inadequate for their loves and appreciat

, singers, painters and idealists will be the heroes of the generations to come, for

and the planetary patriotism. The immanence of the spirit of all things, is a sign; the sense of the underlying oneness of humanity; not alone the Fatherland, but

e is Steve. I called him The Dakotan,[1] in the book, Child and Country. We've romped and ridden together for thr

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re scattered here and there among the younger generation-young people new in name only; in soul they are as old as Zeus. Often they are strangers in their father's house. They blend t

the twenties they are prodigies, leaders in the arts or the revolutions. It is their aim to over-reach themselves, not to further a type. Very ear

e true in matter, and first among their dreams is of the planet in one piece. They are naturally intolerant of barriers and partitions. They see ahead a new social order vast and shining as a devachanic vision-the real democracy of the future. They see that the new has

belong to the open and are practically immune to disease. Theirs is the health of sun and wind and spirit-vitality instead of constitution, something the old can never understand. Constitution is weight

ot popular with ordinary women, who surmise their superiority but comprehend it not. Deceit, jealousy and such common disturbances evident in the sex are unknown to them. They h

. Others think them cruel in their discrimination in mating. They take all or nothing-prodigious riskers, great sufferers, throwing

iably they are put to it, to break into this day and generation. They fight their way up through all the banked-up ignor