# An essay on hasheesh

Author: Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947

Genre: Cannabis

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77838

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## Summary

“What is left for us modern men? We cannot be Greek now. The cypress of knowledge springs, and withers when it comes in sight of Troy; the cypress of pleasure likewise, if it has not died already at the root of cankering Calvinism; the cypress of religion is tottering. What is left? Science, for those who are scientific. Art for artists; and all literary men are artists in a way. But science falls not to the lot of all. Art is hardly worth pursuing now. What is left? Hasheesh, I think: Hasheesh of one form or another. We can dull the pangs of the present by living the past again in reveries or learned studies, by illusions of the fancy and a life of self-indulgent dreaming. Take down the...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-essay-on-hasheesh-77838/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-essay-on-hasheesh-77838/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-essay-on-hasheesh-77838/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-essay-on-hasheesh-77838/chapters/4/index.md)