Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
‘_Master, with this I send you, as a boy_ _that watches from below some cross-bow bird_ _swoop on his quarry carried up aloft,_ _and cries a cry of victory to his flight_ _with sheer joy of achievement—So to you_ _I send my voice across the sundering sea,_ _weak, lost within t...
‘_Master, with this I send you, as a boy_ _that watches from below some cross-bow bird_ _swoop on his quarry carried up aloft,_ _and cries a cry of victory to his flight_ _with...
2. Part 2Free-trade—Federalism—Higher Education, they all go together. The necessities of life are cheap here, wonderfully cheap; a man can get a dinner here for sixpence that he could n...
3. Part 3Gordon’s life and work were a failure. He himself would, I am sure, have been the first to admit it and have assigned the cause, and rightly, to bad luck in general and certain...
4. Part 4Religion in England—and Religion has, inaptly enough, become a synonym for Christianity, in which general sense of the term I use it here—Religion in England, just like everythi...
5. Part 5I have as good as said that what makes the outer strength of the Salvationists is their realization of Jesus as liver and lover. Love, yearning love, is undoubtedly the chief ch...
6. Part 6It was in 1770 that Cook entered the bay to which he gave the name of Botany: in ’88 that Philip landed in Port Jackson with his convict settlement: in 1849 that the settlers re...
7. Part 7She believes in the modern scientific spirit, and in none other. “Let us, then,” she says, in her heart, “let us, then, by all means, move towards Federalism. Union is strength....
8. Part 8If this, then, is to be the case in Europe, what will it be in America, and still more in Australia? Aristocracies may not be ideal, but they have their use: they establish a ce...
9. Part 9And so, having disposed somewhat of the _why_, we come back to the _how_, the purpose and the system. In reality the two are one. Mr. Arnold speaks once of Goethe’s “profound im...
10. Part 10Horace Gildea was the grandson of one of those self-reliant energetic men of the English upper Middle-class, who at an early period of life conceive a particular ambition, and d...
11. Part 11“And am I not right in thinking that the only two native subjects, which are capable of arousing public interest and curiosity here, are those which appeal to the two portions o...
12. Part 12“Be it so,” Gildea said, “our good Judge is not to be allowed more than a faint glimmering of that fine theory of ours of the world’s unseen τελος. The ‘divine far-off event’ is...
13. Part 13“There is much truth in what Mr. Hawkesbury says,” says Gildea, “Just at present we think too much of the ultimate Culture of the Middle-class and too little of that of the Peop...
14. Part 14“Well,” said Fitzgerald smiling, “we have had the Vision of the Future from the Christian, the Cultured, the Socialistic point of view, and now we see that Science too has her d...
15. Part 15“Our good Judge’s discovery and investigation of the character of Jesus,” said Gildea, almost ready to laugh outright at Maddock’s concluding dythramb, “are certainly not unlike...
16. Part 16Gildea and Maddock stepped out together along the lawn and mounted the steps that led up to the sitting-room balcony. The sunlight, intercepted by an angle of the house, covered...
17. Part 17A more charming day for such a trip, it would have been hard to choose. The air was warmer than in the morning, but the breeze was still strong enough to prevent the volumes of...