# The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration

Author: Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44883

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Drama+of+Love+and+Death%3A+A+Study+of+Human+Evolution+and+Transfiguration+Carpenter&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Love and Death move through this world of ours like things apart—underrunning it truly, and everywhere present, yet seeming to belong to some other mode of existence. When Death comes, breaking into the circle of our friends, words fail us, our mental machinery ceases to operate, all our little stores of wit and wisdom, our maxims, our mottoes, accumulated from daily experience, evaporate and are of no avail. These things do not seem to touch or illuminate in any effective way the strange vast Presence whose wings darken the world for us. And with Love, though in an opposite sense, it is the same. Words are of no use, all our philosophy fails—whether to account for the pain, or to fortify...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drama-of-love-and-death-a-study-of-human-evolution-and-tran-3adda809/chapters/1/index.md)