The Hive

s, and love not as an emotion but as a cosmic force. Many days I have faced a Chapel, as I face this day's work, longing to bring in clos

ion of the heart, then presently lose the sense of effort, even the sense of thoug

f the universe without altering the size of the hat-band. There is a continual condensation at work within us mentally and physically. We take the cream of th

wiser the man, the more fastidious he is, and this does not mean that he is a crank. The excellence of fastidiousness is not in eccentricity but in inclusiveness. In the spirit of the thing, he sees all. From the spirit of the thing, he expresses in his own way any part. He

s of but one life, but because the soul is so small or so diffused, the surgeon is very apt to say that there is no such organ. And yet, we all know there is knowledge and power behind us, which drives us, in our greater moments, to utterances and action entirely without t

g the minerals. The fact that each is the highest necessitates that. In the same way, man includes Nature and the lower creatures, in that he is the highest. This is easily pr

ain. This is a law. The scent of a rose is the sublimate of all plant odours; a

of bulks of matter. I stood upon a bluff overlooking the ocean recently, and a breath of the south wind awakened in my mind the story of one whole summer; others have listened to forest

osm within himself, including in his consciousness more and more the Idea of the Universe. The cosm

experiences and facts. Just as the rose and the man and the grain of dust are potential with all bene

ll-mastering emotion-such as love. And now we are in a region where there can be no differen

g is formed of earth, air, water, fire, sunlight and all winds, all facts, all experiences, all arts, light of the moon and stars and all glowing things under the sun, all sounds and scents and pictures, all ardours, and sympathies and tolerances. Its o

the universe in being the spirit of it; that His idea of creativeness is expressed in one great single,

t Binan, on his knees, working the camera with a whole brigade sprawled behind-gave me one of the finest early building blocks for the courage among men. He also gave me an ideal of cleanliness: One evening, after a vicious day's march, and we were all ravenous, John T. left camp to find a river. There he bathed with government bouquet,-made himself right with himself, even to shaving, before meat and dr

over night-and yet his Government wants him served up just so, in pounds. There isn't any one loves America more than the Dakotan, whom we now call Steve. Even the young military surgeons will know before long that endurance is a matter of spiritual culture, that courage is spirit-that a man is well because of cleanliness of body and thought and organised will; that he doesn't fail in a pinch

erformance is a lifting out of the tangle of emotion and desire, into a large, unrestricted area full of calm daylight, where events and movements are seen in their relation to one another, not in separateness and one at a time, an area also where inspiration is mom

t the same time observed their effects upon myself. I did not know until I was adult that there is a big receptivity of consciousness above this-where intuitions play and weave causes and effects together-wh

ession was the result of self-analysis. I was a better man when I let myself go utterly. And this was exactly the thing that happened in moments of danger, moments of romance

ss in a military sense, yet has a high and holy meaning to all reconstructionists.... I remember when the word first came to me with a thrill, as a young lad going off to Cuban wars. It was burned out of me a few days afterward in a Sibley tent full of regular army soldi

the eternal indestructibility of the human heart. It expresses the love of the world, not as it is felt in the brain, but in the breast of the soul. The New Race has already was

and for the day that is to be. It means love for the poor, a love for the peasants, a passion to serve and be tender to them,

ill plotting to crucify the King; its strong magic will uncover the monotonous crimes of commerce.... It signifies the spirit

he wheat, the clean things, the simple and holy things that the peasants love, with the songs that the peasants sing, the songs of the soil and

word is