The Hive

what a sham Fear is. I do not mean that we take chances or that it is wise to risk life or limb. Fine discrimination is back of all traini

generation learn the deeper matters of life-matters of self-mastery which make the very presence of a l

ke the pain that tells you of a weakness or disease. Fear is an unerring reminder of a

Fear before a laughable personal e

like this quiver of horror for years. All members and muscles bolted at the thought of advancing closer to the edge. I

t these must be made to obey. Here I had a chance to prove if I were less in action than talk. I forced my fluttering young self to the edge.... Dizziness-wobbly limbs, fancied shoves from behind, th

man, the more awe he has for this subject. There's a glow that follows conquest of any kind; the mere call of the will to action brings a sense of power in the heart. There is no way more speedily to dispel pain, anger, passion, fear, or any of these t

iscrimination, art, all culture and knowledge may be brought to bear i

sound or odour, before your mind could tell you what you were afraid of.... I have often told the young ones here-listening a bit to my own

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s alone, the rush to the light, almost screaming tension?... I heard a patter of steps the other evening and knew the whole story-a boy of seven. He had been sent

to be cut in two under brine, white belly, backward mouth, black-rimmed, hairy pig eyes, the double-rows of teeth.... Pacific Islanders swim in the same harbour with fourteen-foot scavengers, careless of whole schools of m

the surf lines and started out to sea. I finished my swim decently in toward North America, and lay on the strand.

with us, and the billows out yonder are doubtless all that you say, for an afternoon's l

hink about t

he plane of manifestation.... So I tried that out in deep water. The old horrors succumbed like the fear of the precipice, but

e lizard and the shark and the carcajou of our own natures mastered, there isn't anything left to do but to tally them off outs

fear and hunger, anger and the rest. Now, however, these must be overcome.... One of the last physical fears to let go in my case is that for

a girl of fourteen to my precipice-left her there standing on the very edge. Aft

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ng whipped for myself, but it h

e fear of height such as we put on. I recalled a score of episodes of my own boy-days, in which I startl

tronger. These animals within are our cosmos to rule. We do not know how beautiful they are until w

hysical conquests come the psychic ones-hard matters of mastery pertaining to the heart and mind-to know, to do, to dare, to keep silent-then the finding of the hidden treasures of the subcons

p as you would imagine. The fact is, I was in no way terrified in my first flight, and fear certainly crawled me full length as I stood that time at the edge of the mesa. Our young people hav

e at the edge of the Pacific when the following letter cam

lantic coast for many miles lay in profile as a map, the roads stretched as thin mathematical lines; forests as darker shadows of the earth; New York as a blotch of smoke and curious patchwork. For twenty minutes we sailed around and around, just as you've seen a gull pinion, then we c

tretches,-pure, golden,-while below twinkled the town's lights. 'Twas the fullest, richest, most brimming moment I've ever had. The awe of the cosmos overtakes the heart and lays down its stupendous laws. The distance between sun and 'plane s

he fear element whatso

s too slow and coarse for the wastrel tendencies of the modern hour. The sad ones of the new generation use high potency drugs to forget the drag of time and s