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I met Rachel again in Germany through
the devices of my cousin the Fuerstin Letzlingen.
I had finished seeing what I wanted to see in Westphalia
and I was preparing to go to the United States.
There I thought I should be able to complete and round
off that large view of the human process I had been
developing in my mind. But my departure was delayed
by an attack of influenza that I picked up at a Socialist
Congress in Munich, and the dear Durchlaucht,
hearing of this and having her own views of my destiny,
descended upon me while I was still in bed there,
made me get up and carried me off in her car, to take
care of me herself at her villa at Boppard, telling
me nothing of any fellow-guests I might encounter.
She had a villa upon the Rhine under
a hill of vineyards, where she devoted herself-she
was a widow-to matchmaking and belated regrets
for the childlessness that necessitated a perpetual
borrowing of material for her pursuit. She had
a motor-car, a steam-launch, several rowing boats
and canoes, a tennis-lawn, a rambling garden, a devious
house and a rapid mind, and in fact everything that
was necessary for throwing young people together.
She made her surprise seem easy and natural, and with
returning health I found myself already back upon my
old footing of friendly intimacy with Rachel.
I found her a new and yet a familiar
Rachel. She had grown up, she was no longer a
schoolgirl, crystalline clear with gleams of emotion
and understanding, and what she had lost in transparency
she had gained in depth. And she had become well-informed,
she had been reading very widely and well, I could
see, and not simply reading but talking and listening
and thinking. She showed a vivid interest in the
current of home politics,-at that time
the last government of Mr. Balfour was ebbing to its
end and my old Transvaal friends, the Chinese coolies,
were to avenge themselves on their importers.
The Tariff Reformers my father detested were still
struggling to unseat the Premier from his leadership
of Conservatism....
It was queer to hear once more, after
my Asiatic wanderings and dreamings, those West-End
dinner-table politics, those speculations about "Winston's"
future and the possibility of Lloyd George or Ramsay
Macdonald or Macnamara taking office with the Liberals
and whether there might not ultimately be a middle
party in which Haldane and Balfour, Grey and the Cecils
could meet upon common ground. It seemed now not
only very small but very far off. She told me
too of the huge popularity of King Edward. He
had proved to be interested, curious, understanding
and clever, an unexpectedly successful King. She
described how he was breaking out of the narrow official
limits that had kept his mother in a kind of social
bandbox, extending his solvent informality of friendliness
to all sorts of men. He had won the heart of Will
Crooks, the labor member for Poplar, for example,
made John Burns a social success and warmed all France
for England.
I surveyed this novel picture of the
English throne diffusing amiability.
"I suppose it's what the
throne ought to do," said Rachel. "If
it can't be inspiration, at any rate it can
tolerate and reconcile and take the ill-bred bitterness
out of politics."
"My father might have said that."
"I got that from your father,"
she said; and added after a momentary pause, "I
go over and talk to him."
"You talk to my father!"
"I like to. Or rather I
listen and take it in. I go over in the afternoon.
I go sometimes twice or three times a week."
"That's kind of you."
"Not at all. You see -
It sounds impudent, I know, for a girl to say so,
but we've so many interests in common."
I was more and more interested by
Rachel as the days went on. A man must be stupid
who does not know that a woman is happy in his presence,
and for two years now and more I had met no one with
a very strong personal feeling for me. And quite
apart from that, her mind was extraordinarily interesting
to me because it was at once so active and so clear
and so limited by her entirely English circumstances.
She had the prosperous English outlook. She didn't
so much see the wide world as get glimpses of it through
the tangle of Westminster and of West End and week-end
limitations. She wasn't even aware of that
greater unprosperous England, already sulking and
darkling outside her political world, that greater
England which was presently to make its first audible
intimations of discontent in that remarkable anti-climax
to King George's Coronation, the Railway Strike.
India for her was the land of people's cousins,
Germany and the German Dreadnoughts bulked far
larger, and all the tremendous gathering forces of
the East were beyond the range of her imagination.
I set myself to widen her horizons.
I told her something of the intention
and range of my travels, and something of the views
that were growing out of their experiences.
I have a clear little picture in my
mind of an excursion we made to that huge national
Denkmal which rears its head out of the amiable
vineyards of Assmannshausen and Rüdesheim over
against Bingen. We landed at the former place,
went up its little funicular to eat our lunch and drink
its red wine at the pleasant inn above, and then strolled
along through the woods to the monument.
The Fuerstin fell behind with her
unwilling escort, a newly arrived medical student
from England, a very pleasant youngster named Berwick,
who was all too obviously anxious to change places
with me. She devised delays, and meanwhile I,
as yet unaware of the state of affairs, went on with
Rachel to that towering florid monument with its vast
gesticulating Germania, which triumphs over the conquered
We fell talking of war and the passions
and delusions that lead to war. Rachel's
thoughts were strongly colored by those ideas of a
natural rivalry between Germany and England and of
a necessary revenge for France which have for nearly
forty years diverted the bulk of European thought
and energy to the mere waste of military preparations.
I jarred with an edifice of preconceptions when I
scoffed and scolded at these assumptions.
"Our two great peoples are disputing
for the leadership of the world," I said, "and
meanwhile the whole world sweeps past us. We're
drifting into a quarrelsome backwater."
I began to tell of the fermentation
and new beginnings that were everywhere perceptible
throughout the East, of the vast masses of human ability
and energy that were coming into action in China and
India, of the unlimited future of both North and South
America, of the mere accidentalness of the European
advantage. "History," I said, "is
already shifting the significance out of Western Europe
altogether, and we English cannot see it; we can see
no further than Berlin, and these Germans can think
of nothing better than to taunt the French with such
tawdry effigies as this! Europe goes
on to-day as India went on in the eighteenth century,
making aimless history. And the sands of opportunity
run and run...."
I shrugged my shoulders and we stood
for a little while looking down on the shining crescent
of the Rhine.
"Suppose," said Rachel,
"that someone were to say that-in
the House."
"The House," I said, "doesn't
hear things at my pitch. Bat outcries. Too
shrill altogether."
"It might. If you -"
She halted, hesitated for a moment on the question
and asked abruptly:
"When are you coming back to England, Mr. Stratton?"
"Certainly not for six months," I said.
A movement of her eyes made me aware
of the Fuerstin and Berwick emerging from the trees.
"And then?" asked Rachel.
I didn't want to answer that
question, in which the personal note sounded so clearly.
"I am going to America to see America,"
I said, "and America may be rather a big thing
to see."
"You must see it?"
"I want to be sure of it-as
something comprehensive. I want to get a general
effect of it...."
Rachel hesitated, looked back to measure
the distance of the Fuerstin and her companion and
put her question again, but this time with a significance
that did not seem even to want to hide itself. "Then
will you come back?" she said.
Her face flamed scarlet, but her eyes
met mine boldly. Between us there was a flash
of complete understanding.
My answer, if it was lame and ungallant
to such a challenge, was at least perfectly honest.
"I can't make up my mind," I said.
"I've been near making plans-taking
steps.... Something holds me back...."
I had no time for an explanation.
"I can't make up my mind," I repeated.
She stood for a moment rather stiffly,
staring away towards the blue hills of Alsace.
Then she turned with a smiling and
undisturbed countenance to the Fuerstin. Her
crimson had given place to white. "The triumph
of it," she said with a slight gesture to the
flamboyant Teutonism that towered over us, and boldly
repeating words I had used scarcely five minutes before,
"makes me angry. They conquered-ungraciously...."
She had overlooked something in her
effort to seem entirely self-possessed. She collapsed.
"My dear!" she cried,-"I
"Oh! I'm only a German
by marriage!" cried the Fuerstin. "And
I can assure you I quite understand-about
the triumph of it...." She surveyed the
achievement of her countrymen. "It is-ungracious.
But indeed it's only a sort of artlessness if
you see the thing properly.... It's not
vulgarity-it's childishness....
They've hardly got over it yet-their
intense astonishment at being any good at war....
That large throaty Victory! She's not so
militant as she seems. She's too plump....
Of course what a German really appreciates is nutrition.
But I quite agree with you both.... I'm
beginning to want my tea, Mr. Stratton.... Rachel!"
Her eyes had been on Rachel as she
chattered. The girl had turned to the distant
hills again, and had forgotten even to pretend to listen
to the answer she had evoked. Now she came back
sharply to the sound of her name.
"Tea?" said the Fuerstin.
"Oh!" cried Rachel. "Yes.
Yes, certainly. Rather. Tea."
It was clear to me that after that
I must as people say "have things out"
with Rachel. But before I could do anything of
the sort the Fuerstin pounced upon me. She made
me sit up that night after her other guests had gone
to their rooms, in the cosy little turret apartment
she called her study and devoted to the reading of
whatever was most notorious in contemporary British
fiction. "Sit down," said she, "by
the fire in that chair there and tell me all about
it. It's no good your pretending you don't
know what I mean. What are you up to with her,
and why don't you go straight to your manifest
destiny as a decent man should?"
"Because manifestly it isn't my destiny,"
I said.
"Stuff," said the Fuerstin.
"You know perfectly well why I am out of England."
"Everybody knows-except
of course quite young persons who are being carefully
brought up."
"Does she know?"
"She doesn't seem to."
"Well, that's what I want to know."
"Need she know?"
"Well, it does seem rather essential -"
"I suppose if you think so -"
"Will you tell her?"
"Tell her yourself, if she must
be told. Down there in Surrey, she must
have seen things and heard things. But I don't
see that she wants a lot of ancient history."
"If it is ancient history!"
"Oh! two years and a half,-it's
an Era."
I made no answer to that, but sat
staring into the fire while my cousin watched my face.
At length I made my confession. "I don't
think it is ancient history at all," I said.
"I think if I met Mary again now -"
"You mean Lady Mary Justin?"
"Of course."
"It would be good for your mind
if you remembered to call her by her proper name....
You think if you met her again you two would begin
to carry on. But you see,-you aren't
going to meet her. Everybody will see that doesn't
"I mean that I - Well -"
"You'd better not say
it. Besides, it's nonsense. I doubt
if you've given her a thought for weeks and
"Until I came here perhaps that
was almost nearly true. But you've stirred
me up, sweet cousin, and old things, old memories and
habits have come to the surface again. Mary wrote
herself over my life-in all sorts of places....
I can't tell you. I've never talked
of her to anyone. I'm not able, very well,
to talk about my feelings.... Perhaps a man of
my sort-doesn't love twice over."
I disregarded a note of dissent from
my cousin. "That was all so magic, all
my youth, all my hope, all the splendid adventure of
it. Why should one pretend?... I'm
giving none of that to Rachel. It isn't
there any more to give...."
"One would think," remarked
the Fuerstin, "there was no gift of healing."
She waited for me to speak, and then
irritated by my silence struck at me sharply with
that wicked little tongue of hers.
"Do you think that Lady Mary
Justin thinks of you-as you think of her?
Do you think she hasn't settled down?"
I looked up at her quickly.
"She's just going to have a second child,"
the Fuerstin flung out.
Yes, that did astonish me. I suppose my face
showed it.
"That girl," said the
Fuerstin, "that clean girl would have sooner
died-ten thousand deaths.... And she's
never-never been anything to you."
I think that for an instant she had
been frightened at her own words. She was now
quite angry and short of breath. She had contrived
a rapid indignation against Mary and myself.
"I didn't know Mary had had any child
at all," I said.
"This makes two," said
the Fuerstin, and held up a brace of fingers, "with
scarcely a year and a half between them. Not much
more anyhow.... It was natural, I suppose.
A natural female indecency. I don't blame
her. When a woman gives in she ought to do it
thoroughly. But I don't see that it leaves
you much scope for philandering, Stephen, does
it?... And there you are, and here is Rachel.
And why don't you make a clean job of your life?..."
"I didn't understand."
"I wonder what you imagined."
I reflected. "I wonder
what I did. I suppose I thought of Mary-just
as I had left her-always."
I remained with my mind filled with
confused images of Mary, memories, astonishment....
I perceived the Fuerstin was talking.
"Maundering about," she
was saying, "like a huntsman without a horse....
You've got work to do-blood in your
veins. I'm not one of your ignorant women,
Stephen. You ought to have a wife...."
"Rachel's too good,"
I said, at the end of a pause and perceiving I had
to say something, "to be that sort of wife."
"No woman's too good for
a man," said the Fuerstin von Letzlingen with
conviction. "It's what God made her
My visit to Boppard was drawing to
an end before I had a clear opportunity to have things
out with Rachel. It was in a little garden, under
the very shadow of that gracious cathedral at Worms,
the sort of little garden to which one is admitted
by ringing a bell and tipping a custodian. I
think Worms is in many respects one of the most beautiful
cathedrals I have ever seen, so perfectly proportioned,
so delicately faded, so aloof, so free from pride
or presumption, and it rises over this green and flowery
peace, a towering, lithe, light brown, sunlit, easy
thing, as unconsciously and irrelevantly splendid as
a tall ship in the evening glow under a press of canvas.
We looked up at it for a time and then went on with
the talk to which we had been coming slowly since
the Fuerstin had packed us off for it, while she went
into the town with Berwick to buy toys for her gatekeeper's
children. I had talked about myself, and the
gradual replacement of my ambition to play a part in
imperial politics by wider intentions. "You
know," I asked abruptly, "why I left England?"
She thought through the briefest of
pauses. "No," she decided at last.
"I made love," I said,
"to Lady Mary Justin, and we were found out.
We couldn't go away together -"
"Why not?" she interjected.
"It was impossible."
For some moments neither of us spoke.
"Something," she said, and then, "Some
vague report," and left these fragments to be
her reply.
"We were old playmates; we were
children together. We have-something-that
draws us to each other. She-she made
a mistake in marrying. We were both very young
and the situation was difficult. And then afterwards
we were thrown together.... But you see that has
made a great difference to my life; it's turned
me off the rails on which men of my sort usually run.
I've had to look to these other things....
They've become more to me than to most people
if only because of that...."
"You mean these ideas of yours-learning
as much as you can about the world, and then doing
what you can to help other people to a better understanding."
"Yes," I said.
"And that-will fill your life."
"It ought to."
"I suppose it ought. I suppose-you
find-it does."
"Don't you think it ought to fill my life?"
"I wondered if it did."
"But why shouldn't it?"
"It's so-so cold."
My questioning silence made her attempt to explain.
"One wants life more beautiful
than that," she said. "One wants -
There are things one needs, things nearer one."
We became aware of a jangling at the
janitor's bell. Our opportunity for talk
was slipping away. And we were both still undecided,
both blunderingly nervous and insecure. We were
hurried into clumsy phrases that afterwards we would
have given much to recall.
"But how could life be more
beautiful," I said, "than when it serves
big human ends?"
Her brows were knit. She seemed
to be listening for the sound of the unlocking gate.
"But," she said, and plunged,
"one wants to be loved. Surely one needs
"You see, for me-that's gone."
"Why should it be gone?"
"It is. One doesn't
begin again. I mean-myself. You-can.
You've never begun. Not when you've
loved-loved really." I forced
that on her. I over emphasized. "It
was real love, you know; the real thing.... I
don't mean the mere imaginative love, blindfold
love, but love that sees.... I want you to understand
that. I loved-altogether...."
Across the lawn under its trim flowering-trees
appeared Berwick loaded with little parcels, and manifestly
eager to separate us, and the Fuerstin as manifestly
putting on the drag.
"There's a sort of love,"
I hurried, "that doesn't renew itself ever.
Don't let yourself believe it does. Something
else may come in its place, but that is different.
It's youth,-a wonderful newness....
Look at that youngster. He can love you like
that. I've watched him. He does.
You know he does...."
"Yes," she said, as hurriedly;
"but then, you see, I don't love him."
"You don't?"
"I can't."
"But he's such a fresh clean human being -"
"That's not all,"
said Rachel. "That's not all....
You don't understand."
The two drew near. "It
is so hard to explain," she said. "Things
that one hardly sees for oneself. Sometimes it
seems one cannot help oneself. You can't
choose. You are taken...." She seemed
about to say something more, and stopped and bit her
In another moment I was standing up,
and the Fuerstin was calling to us across ten feet
of space. "Such amoosin' little toyshops.
We've got a heap of things. Just look at
He smiled over his load with anxious eyes upon our
"Ten separate parcels,"
he said, appealing for Rachel's sympathy.
"I'm doing my best not to complain."
And rather adroitly he contrived to
let two of them slip, and captured Rachel to assist
He didn't relinquish her again.
The Fuerstin and I followed them along
the broad, pleasant, tree-lined street towards the
railway station.
"A boy of that age ought not
to marry a girl of that age," said the Fuerstin,
breaking a silence.
I didn't answer.
"Well?" she said, domineering.
"My dear cousin," I said,
"I know all that you have in your mind.
I admit-I covet her. You can't
make me more jealous than I am. She's clean
and sweet-it is marvellous how the God of
the rest of the world can have made a thing so brave
and honest and wonderful. She's better
than flowers. But I think I'm going away
to-night, nevertheless."
"You don't mean you're
going to carry chivalry to the point of giving that
boy a chance-for he hasn't one while
you're about."
"No. You see-I
want to give Rachel a chance. You know as well
as I do-the things in my mind."
"That you've got to forget."
"That I don't forget."
"That you're bound in honor to forget.
And who could help you better?"
"I'm going," I said
and then, wrathfully, "If you think I want to
use Rachel as a sort of dressing-for my
old sores -"
I left the sentence unfinished.
"Oh nonsense!"
cried the Fuerstin, and wouldn't speak to me
again until we got to that entirely Teutonic "art"
station that is not the least among the sights of
"Sores, indeed!" said
the Fuerstin presently, as we walked up the end of
the platform.
"There's nothing,"
said the Fuerstin, with an unusual note of petulance,
"she'd like better."
"I can't think what men
are coming to," she went on. "You're
in love with her, or you wouldn't be so generous.
And she's head over heels with you. And
here you are! I'll give you one more chance -"
"I won't take it,"
I interrupted. "It isn't fair.
I tell you I won't take it. I'll
go two days earlier to prevent you. Unless you
promise me - Of course I see how
things are with her. She's not a sphinx.
But it isn't fair. It isn't.
Not to her, or to him-or myself. He's
got some claims. He's got more right to
her than I...."
"A boy like that! No man
has any rights about women-until he's
thirty. And as for me and all the pains I've
taken - Oh! I hate Worms.
Dust and ashes! Well here thank heaven! comes
the train. If nothing else could stir you, Stephen,
at least I could have imagined some decent impulse
of gratitude to me. Stephen, you're disgusting.
You've absolutely spoilt this trip for me-absolutely.
When only a little reasonableness on your part -
She left her sentence unfinished.
Berwick and I had to make any conversation
that was needed on the way back to Boppard. Rachel
did not talk and the Fuerstin did not want to.
Directly I had parted from Rachel's
questioning eyes I wanted to go back to them.
It seems to me now that all the way across to America,
in that magnificent German liner I joined at Hamburg,
I was thinking in confused alternations of her and
of Mary. There are turns of thought that still
bring back inseparably with them the faint echo of
the airs of the excellent but industrious band that
glorified our crossing.
I had been extraordinarily shocked
and concerned at the thought of Mary bearing children.
It is a grotesque thing to confess but I had never
let myself imagine the possibility of such a thing
for her who had been so immensely mine....
We are the oddest creatures, little
son, beasts and barbarians and brains, neither one
nor the other but all confusedly, and here was I who
had given up Mary and resigned her and freed myself
from her as I thought altogether, cast back again
into my old pit by the most obvious and necessary
consequence of her surrender and mine. And it's
just there and in that relation that we men and women
are so elaborately insecure. We try to love as
equals and behave as equals and concede a level freedom,
and then comes a crisis,-our laboriously
contrived edifice of liberty collapses and we perceive
that so far as sex goes the woman remains to the man
no more than a possession-capable of loyalty
or treachery.
There, still at that barbaric stage,
the situation stands. You see I had always wanted
to own Mary, and always she had disputed that.
That is our whole story, the story of an instinctive
subjugation struggling against a passionate desire
for fellowship. She had denied herself to me,
taken herself away; that much I could endure; but
now came this blazing fact that showed her as it seemed
in the most material and conclusive way-overcome.
I had storms of retrospective passion at the thoroughness
of her surrender.... Yes, and that's in
everyone of us,-in everyone. I wonder
if in all decent law-abiding London there lives a single
healthy adult man who has not at times longed to trample
and kill....
For once I think the Fuerstin miscalculated
consequences. I think I should have engaged myself
to Rachel before I went to America if it had not been
for the Fuerstin's revelation, but this so tore
me that I could no longer go on falling in love again,
naturally and sweetly. No man falls in love if
he has just been flayed.... I could no longer
think of Rachel except as a foil to Mary. I was
moved to marry her by a new set of motives; to fling
her so to speak in Mary's face, and from the
fierce vulgarity of that at least I recoiled-and
let her go as I have told you.
I had thought all that was over.
I remember my struggles to recover my peace.
I remember how very late one night
I went up to the promenade deck to smoke a cigar before
turning in. It was a warm moonlight night.
The broad low waves of ebony water that went seething
past below, foamed luminous and were streaked and
starred with phosphorescence. The recumbent moon,
past its full and sinking westward, seemed bigger than
I had ever seen it before, and the roundness of the
watery globe was manifest about the edge of the sky.
One had that sense so rare on land, so common in the
night at sea, of the world as a conceivable sphere,
and of interstellar space as of something clear and
close at hand.
There came back to me again that feeling
I had lost for a time in Germany of being not myself
but Man consciously on his little planet communing
with God.
But my spirit was saying all the time,
"I am still in my pit, in my pit. After
all I am still in my pit."
And then there broke the answer on
my mind, that all our lives we must struggle out of
our pits, that to struggle out of our pit is this life,
there is no individual life but that, and that there
comes no escape here, no end to that effort, until
the release of death. Continually or frequently
we may taste salvation, but never may we achieve it
while we are things of substance. Each moment
in our lives we come to the test and are lost again
or saved again. To be assured of one's security
is to forget and fall away.
And standing at the rail with these
thoughts in my mind, suddenly I prayed....
I remember how the engine-throbs beat
through me like the beating of a heart, and that far
below, among the dim lights that came up from the
emigrants in the steerage, there was a tinkling music
as I prayed and a man's voice singing a plaintive
air in some strange Slavonic tongue.
That voice of the invisible singer
and the spirit of the unknown song-maker and the serenity
of the sky, they were all, I perceived, no more and
no less than things in myself that I did not understand.
They were out beyond the range of understanding.
And yet they fell into the completest harmony that
night with all that I seemed to understand....
The onset of New York was extraordinarily
stimulating to me. I write onset. It is
indeed that. New York rides up out of the waters,
a cliff of man's making; its great buildings
at a distance seem like long Chinese banners held
up against the sky. From Sandy Hook to the great
landing stages and the swirling hooting traffic of
the Hudson River there fails nothing in that magnificent
crescendo of approach.
And New York keeps the promise of
its first appearance. There is no such fulness
of life elsewhere in all the world. The common
man in the streets is a bigger common man than any
Old World city can show, physically bigger; there
is hope in his eyes and a braced defiance. New
York may be harsh and blusterous and violent, but there
is a breeze from the sea and a breeze of fraternity
in the streets, and the Americans of all peoples in
the world are a nation of still unbroken men.
I went to America curious, balancing
between hope and scepticism. The European world
is full of the criticism of America, and for the matter
of that America too is full of it; hostility and depreciation
prevail,-overmuch, for in spite of rawness
and vehemence and a scum of blatant, oh! quite asinine
folly, the United States of America remains the greatest
country in the world and the living hope of mankind.
It is the supreme break with the old tradition; it
is the freshest and most valiant beginning that has
ever been made in human life.
Here was the antithesis of India;
here were no peasants whatever, no traditional culture,
no castes, no established differences (except for
the one schism of color); this amazing place had never
had a famine, never a plague; here were no temples
and no priesthoods dominating the lives of the people,-old
Trinity church embedded amidst towering sky-scrapers
was a symbol for as much as they had of all that; and
here too there was no crown, no affectations of an
ancient loyalty, no visible army, no traditions of
hostility, for the old defiance of Britain is a thing
now ridiculous and dead; and everyone I met had an
air as if he knew that to-morrow must be different
from to-day and different and novel and remarkable
by virtue of himself and such as himself.
I went about New York, with the incredulous
satisfaction of a man who has long doubted, to find
that after all America was coming true. The very
clatter pleased me, the crowds, the camp-like slovenliness,
a disorder so entirely different from the established
and accepted untidiness of China or India. Here
was something the old world had never shown me, a
new enterprise, a fresh vigor. In the old world
there is Change, a mighty wave now of Change, but
it drives men before it as if it were a power outside
them and not in them; they do not know, they do not
believe; but here the change is in the very blood and
spirit of mankind. They breathe it in even before
the launch has brought their feet to Ellis Island
soil. In six months they are Americanized.
Does it matter that a thing so gigantic should be
a little coarse and blundering in detail, if this
stumbling giant of the new time breaks a gracious
relic or so in his eager clutch and treads a little
on the flowers?
And in this setting of energy and
activity, towering city life and bracing sea breezes,
I met Gidding again, whom I had last seen departing
into Egypt to look more particularly at the prehistoric
remains and the temples of the first and second dynasty
at Abydos. It was at a dinner-party, one of those
large gatherings that welcome interesting visitors.
It wasn't, of course, I who was the centre of
interest, but a distinguished French portrait painter;
I was there as just any guest. I hadn't
even perceived Gidding until he came round to me in
that precious gap of masculine intercourse that ensues
upon the departure of the ladies. That gap is
one of the rare opportunities for conversation men
get in America.
"I don't know whether
you will remember me," he said, "but perhaps
you remember Crete-in the sunrise."
"And no end of talk afterwards,"
I said, grasping his hand, "no end-for
we didn't half finish. Did you have a good
time in Egypt?"
"I'm not going to talk
to you about Egypt," said Gidding. "I'm
through with ruins. I'm going to ask you-you
know what I'm going to ask you."
"What I think of America.
It's the same inevitable question. I think
everything of it. It's the stepping-off
place. I've come here at last, because
it matters most."
"That's what we all want
to believe," said Gidding. "That's
what we want you to tell us."
He reflected. "It's
immense, isn't it, perfectly immense? But -
I am afraid at times we're too disposed to forget
just what it's all about. We've got
to be reminded. That, you know, is why we keep
on asking."
He went on to question me where I
had been, what I had done, what I made of things.
He'd never, he said, forgotten our two days'
gossip in the Levant, and all the wide questions about
the world and ourselves that we had broached then
and left so open. I soon found myself talking
very freely to him. I am not a ready or abundant
talker, but Gidding has the knack of precipitating
my ideas. He is America to my Europe, and at his
touch all that has been hanging in concentrated solution
in my mind comes crystallizing out. He has to
a peculiar degree that directness and simplicity which
is the distinctive American quality. I tried to
explain to his solemnly nodding head and entirely intelligent
eyes just exactly what I was making of things, of
the world, of humanity, of myself....
It was an odd theme for two men to
attempt after dinner, servants hovering about them,
their two faces a little flushed by wine and good
eating, their keen interest masked from the others
around them by a gossiping affectation, their hands
going out as they talked for matches or cigarette,
and before we had gone further than to fling out a
few intimations to each other our colloquy was interrupted
by our host standing up and by the general stir that
preluded our return to feminine society. "We've
got more to say than this," said Gidding.
"We've got to talk."
He brought out a little engagement book that at once
drew out mine in response. And a couple of days
after, we spent a morning and afternoon together and
got down to some very intimate conversation. We
motored out to lunch at a place called Nyack, above
the Palisades, we crossed on a ferry to reach it,
and we visited the house of Washington Irving near
Yonkers on our way.
I've still a vivid picture in
my mind of the little lawn at Irvington that looks
out upon the rushing steel of Hudson River, where Gidding
opened his heart to me. I can see him now as he
leant a little forward over the table, with his wrists
resting upon it, his long clean-shaven face very solemn
and earnest and grey against the hard American sunlight
in the greenery about us, while he told me in that
deliberate American voice of his and with the deliberate
American solemnity, of his desire to "do some
decent thing with life."
He was very anxious to set himself
completely before me, I remember, on that occasion.
There was a peculiar mental kinship between us that
even the profound differences of our English and American
trainings could not mask. And now he told
me almost everything material about his life.
For the first time I learnt how enormously rich he
was, not only by reason of his father's acquisitions,
but also because of his own almost instinctive aptitude
for business. "I've got," he
said, "to begin with, what almost all men spend
their whole lives in trying to get. And it amounts
to nothing. It leaves me with life like a blank
sheet of paper, and nothing in particular to write
on it."
"You know," he said, "it's-exasperating.
I'm already half-way to three-score and ten,
and I'm still wandering about wondering what
to do with this piece of life God has given me...."
He had "lived" as people
say, he had been in scrapes and scandals, tasted to
the full the bitter intensities of the personal life;
he had come by a different route to the same conclusions
as myself, was as anxious as I to escape from memories
and associations and feuds and that excessive vividness
of individual feeling which blinds us to the common
humanity, the common interest, the gentler, larger
reality, which lies behind each tawdrily emphatic
"It's a sort of inverted
homoeopathy I want," he said. "The
big thing to cure the little thing...."
But I will say no more of that side
of our friendship, because the ideas of it are spread
all through this book from the first page to the last....
What concerns me now is not our sympathy and agreement,
but that other aspect of our relations in which Gidding
becomes impulse and urgency. "Seeing we
have these ideas," said he,-"and
mind you there must be others who have them or are
getting to them, for nobody thinks all alone in this
world,-seeing we have these ideas what are
we going to do?"
That meeting was followed by another
before I left New York, and presently Gidding joined
me at Denver, where I was trying to measure the true
significance of a labor paper called The Appeal
to Reason that, in spite of a rigid boycott by
the ordinary agencies for news distribution went out
in the middle west to nearly half a million subscribers,
and was filled with such a fierceness of insurrection
against labor conditions, such a hatred, blind and
impassioned, as I had never known before. Gidding
remained with me there and came back with me to Chicago,
where I wanted to see something of the Americanization
of the immigrant, and my survey of America, the social
and economic problem of America, resolved itself more
and more into a conference with him.
There is no more fruitless thing in
the world than to speculate how life would have gone
if this thing or that had not happened. Yet I
cannot help but wonder how far I might have travelled
along the lines of my present work if I had gone to
America and not met Gidding, or if I had met him without
visiting America. The man and his country are
inextricably interwoven in my mind. Yet I do think
that his simplicity and directness, his force of initiative
that turned me from a mere enquirer into an active
writer and organizer, are qualities less his in particular
than America's in general. There is in America
a splendid crudity, a directness that cleared my spirit
as a bracing wind will sweep the clouds from mountain
scenery. Compared with our older continents America
is mankind stripped for achievement. So many things
are not there at all, need not be considered; no institutional
aristocracy, no Kaisers, Czars, nor King-Emperors
to maintain a litigious sequel to the Empire of Rome;
it has no uneducated immovable peasantry rooted to
the soil, indeed it has no rooting to the soil at
all; it is, from the Forty-ninth Parallel to the tip
of Cape Horn, one triumphant embodiment of freedom
and deliberate agreement. For I mean all America,
Spanish-speaking as well as English-speaking; they
have this detachment from tradition in common.
See how the United States, for example, stands flatly
on that bare piece of eighteenth-century intellectualism
the Constitution, and is by virtue of that a structure
either wilful and intellectual or absurd. That
sense of incurable servitude to fate and past traditions,
that encumbrance with ruins, pledges, laws and ancient
institutions, that perpetual complication of considerations
and those haunting memories of preceding human failures
which dwarf the courage of destiny in Europe and Asia,
vanish from the mind within a week of one's
arrival in the New World. Naturally one begins
to do things. One is inspired to do things.
One feels that one has escaped, one feels that the
time is now. All America, North and South
alike, is one tremendous escape from ancient obsessions
into activity and making.
And by the time I had reached America
I had already come to see that just as the issues
of party politics at home and international politics
abroad are mere superficialities above the greater
struggle of an energetic minority to organize and
exploit the labor of the masses of mankind, so that
struggle also is only a huge incident in the still
more than half unconscious impulse to replace the
ancient way of human living by a more highly organized
world-wide social order, by a world civilization embodying
itself in a World State. And I saw now how that
impulse could neither cease nor could it on the other
hand realize itself until it became conscious and
deliberate and merciful, free from haste and tyranny,
persuasive and sustained by a nearly universal sympathy
and understanding. For until that arrives the
creative forces must inevitably spend themselves very
largely in blind alleys, futile rushes and destructive
conflicts. Upon that our two minds were agreed.
"We have," said Gidding,
"to understand and make understanding. That
is the real work for us to do, Stratton, that is our
job. The world, as you say, has been floundering
about, half making civilization and never achieving
it. Now we, I don't mean just you
and me, Stratton, particularly, but every intelligent
man among us, have got to set to and make it thorough.
There is no other sane policy for a man outside his
private passions but that. So let's get
at it -"
I find it now impossible to trace
the phases by which I reached these broad ideas upon
which I rest all my work, but certainly they were
present very early in my discussions with Gidding.
We two men had been thinking independently but very
similarly, and it is hard to say just what completing
touches either of us gave to the other's propositions.
We found ourselves rather than arrived at the conception
of ourselves as the citizens neither of the United
States nor of England but of a state that had still
to come into being, a World State, a great unity behind
and embracing the ostensible political fabrics of to-day-a
unity to be reached by weakening antagonisms, by developing
understandings and toleration, by fostering the sense
of brotherhood across the ancient bounds.
We believed and we believe that such
a creative conception of a human commonweal can be
fostered in exactly the same way that the idea of
German unity was fostered behind the dukedoms, the
free cities and kingdoms of Germany, a conception
so creative that it can dissolve traditional hatreds,
incorporate narrower loyalties and replace a thousand
suspicions and hostilities by a common passion for
collective achievement, so creative that at last the
national boundaries of to-day may become obstacles
as trivial to the amplifying good-will of men as the
imaginary line that severs Normandy from Brittany,
or Berwick from Northumberland.
And it is not only a great peace about
the earth that this idea of a World State means for
us, but social justice also. We are both convinced
altogether that there survives no reason for lives
of toil, for hardship, poverty, famine, infectious
disease, for the continuing cruelties of wild beasts
and the greater multitude of crimes, but mismanagement
and waste, and that mismanagement and waste spring
from no other source than ignorance and from stupid
divisions and jealousies, base patriotisms, fanaticisms,
prejudices and suspicions that are all no more than
ignorance a little mingled with viciousness. We
have looked closely into this servitude of modern
labor, we have seen its injustice fester towards syndicalism
and revolutionary socialism, and we know these things
for the mere aimless, ignorant resentments they are;
punishments, not remedies. We have looked into
the portentous threat of modern war, and it is ignorant
vanity and ignorant suspicion, the bargaining aggression
of the British prosperous and the swaggering vulgarity
of the German junker that make and sustain that monstrous
European devotion to arms. And we are convinced
there is nothing in these evils and conflicts that
light may not dispel. We believe that these things
can be dispelled, that the great universals, Science
which has limitations neither of race nor class, Art
which speaks to its own in every rank and nation,
Philosophy and Literature which broaden sympathy and
banish prejudice, can flood and submerge and will yet
flow over and submerge every one of these separations
between man and man.
I will not say that this Great State,
this World Republic of civilized men, is our dream,
because it is not a dream, it is a manifestly reasonable
possibility. It is our intention. It is what
we are deliberately making and what in a little while
very many men and women will be making. We are
secessionists from all contemporary nationalities
and loyalties. We have set ourselves with all
the capacity and energy at our disposal to create
a world-wide common fund of ideas and knowledge, and
to evoke a world-wide sense of human solidarity in
which the existing limitations of political structure
must inevitably melt away.
It was Gidding and his Americanism,
his inborn predisposition to innovation and the large
freedom of his wealth that turned these ideas into
immediate concrete undertakings. I see more and
more that it is here that we of the old European stocks,
who still grow upon the old wood, differ most from
those vigorous grafts of our race in America and Africa
and Australia on the one hand and from the renascent
peoples of the East on the other: that we have
lost the courage of youth and have not yet gained
the courage of desperate humiliations, in taking hold
of things. To Gidding it was neither preposterous
nor insufferably magnificent that we should set about
a propaganda of all science, all knowledge, all philosophical
and political ideas, round about the habitable globe.
His mind began producing concrete projects as a fire-work
being lit produces sparks, and soon he was "figuring
out" the most colossal of printing and publishing
projects, as a man might work out the particulars
for an alteration to his bathroom. It was so
entirely natural to him, it was so entirely novel to
me, to go on from the proposition that understanding
was the primary need of humanity to the systematic
organization of free publishing, exhaustive discussion,
intellectual stimulation. He set about it as a
company of pharmacists might organize the distribution
of some beneficial cure.
"Say, Stratton," he said,
after a conversation that had seemed to me half fantasy;
"Let's do it."
There are moments still when it seems
to me that this life of mine has become the most preposterous
of adventures. We two absurd human beings are
spending our days and nights in a sustained and growing
attempt to do what? To destroy certain obsessions
and to give the universal human mind a form and a
desire for expression. We have put into the shape
of one comprehensive project that force of released
wealth that has already dotted America with universities,
libraries, institutions for research and enquiry.
Already there are others at work with us, and presently
there will be a great number. We have started
an avalanche above the old politics and it gathers
mass and pace....
And there never was an impulse towards
endeavor in a human heart that wasn't preposterous.
Man is a preposterous animal. Thereby he ceases
to be a creature and becomes a creator, he turns upon
the powers that made him and subdues them to his service;
by his sheer impudence he establishes his claim to
possess a soul....
But I need not write at all fully
of my work here. This book is not about that
but about my coming to that. Long before this
manuscript reaches your hands-if ultimately
I decide that it shall reach your hands-you
will be taking your share, I hope, in this open conspiracy
against potentates and prejudices and all the separating
powers of darkness.
I would if I could omit one thing
that I must tell you here, because it goes so close
to the very core of all this book has to convey.
I wish I could leave it out altogether. I wish
I could simplify my story by smoothing out this wrinkle
at least and obliterating a thing that was at once
very real and very ugly. You see I had at last
struggled up to a sustaining idea, to a conception
of work and duty to which I could surely give my life.
I had escaped from my pit so far. And it was
natural that now with something to give I should turn
not merely for consolation and service but for help
and fellowship to that dear human being across the
seas who had offered them to me so straightly and
sweetly. All that is brave and good and as you
would have me, is it not? Only, dear son, that
is not all the truth.
There was still in my mind, for long
it remained in my mind, a bitterness against Mary.
I had left her, I had lost her, we had parted; but
from Germany to America and all through America and
home again to my marriage and with me after my marriage,
it rankled that she could still go on living a life
independent of mine. I had not yet lost my desire
to possess her, to pervade and dominate her existence;
my resentment that though she loved me she had first
not married me and afterwards not consented to come
away with me was smouldering under the closed hatches
of my mind. And so while the better part of me
was laying hold of this work because it gave me the
hope of a complete distraction and escape from my
narrow and jealous self, that lower being of the pit
was also rejoicing in the great enterprises before
me and in the marriage upon which I had now determined,
because it was a last trampling upon my devotion to
Mary, because it defied and denied some lurking claims
to empire I could suspect in her. I want to tell
you that particularly because so I am made, so you
are made, so most of us are made. There is scarcely
a high purpose in all the world that has no dwarfish
footman at its stirrup, no base intention over which
there does not ride at least the phantom of an angel.
Constantly in those days, it seems
to me now, I was haunted by my own imagination of
Mary amiably reconciled to Justin, bearing him children,
forgetful of or repudiating all the sweetness, all
the wonder and beauty we had shared.... It was
an unjust and ungenerous conception, I knew it for
a caricature even as I entertained it, and yet it tormented
me. It stung me like a spur. It kept me
at work, and if I strayed into indolence brought me
back to work with a mind galled and bleeding....
And I suppose it is mixed up with
all this that I could not make love easily and naturally
to Rachel. I could not write love-letters to her.
There is a burlesque quality in these scruples, I know,
seeing that I was now resolved to marry her, but that
is the quality, that is the mixed texture of life.
We overcome the greater things and are conscience-stricken
by the details.
I wouldn't, even at the price
of losing her-and I was now passionately
anxious not to lose her-use a single phrase
of endearment that did not come out of me almost in
spite of myself. At any rate I would not cheat
her. And my offer of marriage when at last I sent
it to her from Chicago was, as I remember it, almost
business-like. I atoned soon enough for that
arid letter in ten thousand sweet words that came of
themselves to my lips. And she paid me at any
rate in my own coin when she sent me her answer by
cable, the one word "Yes."
And indeed I was already in love with
her long before I wrote. It was only a dread
of giving her a single undeserved cheapness that had
held me back so long. It was that and the perplexity
that Mary still gripped my feelings; my old love for
her was there in my heart in spite of my new passion
for Rachel, it was blackened perhaps and ruined and
changed but it was there. It was as if a new
crater burnt now in the ampler circumference of an
old volcano, which showed all the more desolate and
sorrowful and obsolete for the warm light of the new
How impatiently I came home!
Thoughts of England I had not dared to think for three
long years might now do what they would in me.
I dreamt of the Surrey Hills and the great woods of
Burnmore Park, of the changing skies and stirring
soft winds of our grey green Motherland. There
was fog in the Irish Sea, and we lost the better part
of a day hooting our way towards Liverpool while I
fretted about the ship with all my luggage packed,
staring at the grey waters that weltered under the
mist. It was the longest day in my life.
My heart was full of desire, my eyes ached for the
little fields and golden October skies of England,
England that was waiting to welcome me back from my
exile with such open arms. I was coming home,-home.
I hurried through London into Surrey
and in my father's study, warned by a telegram,
I found a bright-eyed, resolute young woman awaiting
me, with the quality about her of one who embarks
upon a long premeditated adventure. And I found
too a family her sisters and her brother all gladly
ready for me, my father too was a happy man, and on
the eighth of November in 1906 Rachel and I were married
in the little church at Shere. We stayed for
a week or so in Hampshire near Ringwood, the season
was late that year and the trees still very beautiful;
and then we went to Portofino on the Ligurian coast.
There presently Gidding joined us
and we began to work out the schemes we had made in
America, the schemes that now fill my life.


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text: It has been an extremely happy day in school today. We dressed in clothes that makes us happy and brought in items that makes us happy too. We picked the place we are happiest in the playground which was the playing field and made a heart shape as a class. We thought a heart shape is a great sign to show someone is happy on the inside and the outside.


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- Paulson Welcomes ISS' and Glass Lewis' Rejection of Carrizo Deal -
- Callon Third Quarter Results Demonstrate Strength of Stand-Alone Permian Focus -
NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Paulson & Co. Inc. ("Paulson"), as manager of funds holding 21.6 million shares, or 9.5% of those outstanding, of Callon Petroleum Company ("Callon" or the "Company") (CPE), today voted its Callon shares against the proposed acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc. ("Carrizo") (CRZO).
Paulson notes that Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") and Glass Lewis & Co. ("Glass Lewis") both recommend that Callon shareholders vote against the Company's proposed acquisition of Carrizo. Both proxy advisors provide valuable, independent perspectives to constituencies concerning proxy matters.
Callon shareholders and analysts have expressed a strong interest in our views and have communicated that they share many of our concerns. The Callon Board, which has to date been unresponsive to any of our communications, should listen to its shareholders.
If, on November 14th, Callon shareholders reject the approval of the proposed acquisition, Paulson requests that the Callon Board should follow the will of its shareholders and direct management to focus on:
- Reducing G&A costs, which have risen by over $12 million for the first nine months of 2019 versus 2018;
- Focusing its SIMOPS mega-pad development on its extensive stand-alone acreage;
- Delivering on generating true corporate-level free cash flow organically starting in the fourth quarter of this year assuming $50/bbl, as previously guided (page 14 of its February 26, 2019 presentation); and
- Engaging new, independent advisors to pursue a sale of Callon.
As ISS states, a standalone Callon would be less risky and, combined with a reduction in its own operating costs, a shorter path to shareholder value than an overpriced acquisition. As Glass Lewis concludes, investors could be pleasantly surprised once the Company begins to generate positive free cash flow on a standalone basis, or if the board actively solicited interest from would-be suitors, which the board didn't do before signing the merger agreement with Carrizo.
About Paulson & Co. Inc.
Paulson, founded in 1994, is an investment management firm headquartered in New York.
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Isaiah 45:6b
6b I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Through the prophet Isaiah, the LORD declares Himself as the Supreme Sovereign who has no match or equal anywhere. He is the undisputed King. Even the new mighty king Cyrus of Persia, who would crush and conquer the might of great Babylon, would serve the LORD. Irrespective of his exploits and subjugation of the world's powerful kings and princes, Cyrus would be under the LORD's dominion (cf. Isaiah 44:28; 45:1-4). Cyrus would act just as God commanded him. The sway that the LORD would have over Cyrus and all his political and military activities, provides irrefutable proof of the LORD's total domination and incomparable might and glory. The LORD would use Cyrus as His instrument to accomplish His purposes concerning the Jews and the city of Jerusalem. Hence, the LORD's assertion, "I am the LORD", denotes His sovereignty as incontestable and never-diminishing. This statement is not a mere identification of His name, but a revelation of His greatness and sovereignty. As it is written in Psalm 95:3, "For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods." To all God's servants, the name "the LORD" (or Jehovah) means that He is the Almighty God. So the psalmist said, "For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods" (Psalm 135:5). The assertion, "I am the LORD", means that the LORD God is sovereign above all and all else are under His feet.
The assertion, "I am the LORD", also affirms His self-existence and unchanging nature. In Isaiah 44:6, God, who is "the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts", declares: "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." In Malachi 3:6, the LORD affirms, "For I am the LORD, I change not". His unchanging commitment to His people is often avowed by the declaration, "I am the LORD your God" (cf. Exodus 6:7; Leviticus 18:2, 4; Deuteronomy 29:6; Ezekiel 20:5, 7, 19, 20).
The proclamation, "I am the LORD", also refutes all ideas of the existence of other gods, hence His unequivocal statement: "there is none else." In Isaiah 45 and 46, the LORD has iterated seven times that there is none else besides Him (Isaiah 45:5, 6, 14, 18, 21, 22; 46:9), as a warning to the Jews of Isaiah's day who went after the idols of the surrounding heathen nations. The name "the LORD" (or Jehovah) must evoke in us faith, love, reverence, submission, worship, obedience and allegiance to Him. We must flee all forms of idolatry and yield only to the LORD.


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To consider a briefing note from the Acting Executive Director – Economy and Infrastructure (copy enclosed).
The briefing note provides an update on the closure of Project Furness HWRC during container exchanges and the associated queuing and complaints received from the public.
The Committee received an update on the closure of Project Furness Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) during container exchanges and the associated queuing and complaints received from the public.
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Phillip Cowie
Director Review and Improvement Services
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29 July 2019
Te Rerenga
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School type
Full primary (Years 1-8)
School roll
Gender composition
Male 41 Female 40
Ethnic composition
Māori 14
Students with Ongoing Resourcing Funding (ORS)
Provision of Māori medium education
Review team on site
May 2019
Date of this report
29 July 2019
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