# Phaethon: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers

Author: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11025

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Phaethon%3A+Loose+Thoughts+for+Loose+Thinkers+Kingsley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Templeton and I were lounging by the clear limestone stream which crossed his park and wound away round wooded hills toward the distant Severn. A lovelier fishing morning sportsman never saw. A soft gray under-roof of cloud slid on before a soft west wind, and here and there a stray gleam of sunlight shot into the vale across the purple mountain-tops, and awoke into busy life the denizens of the water, already quickened by the mysterious electric influences of the last night's thunder-shower. The long-winged cinnamon-flies spun and fluttered over the pools; the sand-bees hummed merrily round their burrows in the marly bank; and delicate iridescent ephemerae rose by hundreds from the depth...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/phaethon-loose-thoughts-for-loose-thinkers-11025/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/phaethon-loose-thoughts-for-loose-thinkers-11025/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/phaethon-loose-thoughts-for-loose-thinkers-11025/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/phaethon-loose-thoughts-for-loose-thinkers-11025/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/phaethon-loose-thoughts-for-loose-thinkers-11025/chapters/5/index.md)