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My life's journey has now to be completed through the dwelling places of men. And the good and evil, joy and sorrow, which it thus encountered, are not to be lightly viewed as pictures. What makings and breakings, victories and defeats, clashings and minglings, are here going on!
Fog signals were booming on the railway, and from the great docks in the neighborhood mechanical clashings and hammerings were audible. Turning to the right, Kerry walked on for some distance, and then suddenly stepped into the entrance to a narrow cul-de-sac and stood quite still.
But midst all life's conflicts and clashings this task is upon us. We are to maintain peace, love our enemies, and ultimately master the art of right living with our fellows. To all persons interested in the betterment of society comes the reflection that getting on with men is life's abiding aim and end. Schools can teach no other knowledge comparable to this.
Some have seen below the mountain a blazing heart of light, others have heard the Musical beating of a heart, of faery bells, or aerial clashings, and the heart-beings have also spoken; so it has gathered around itself its own traditions of spiritual romance and adventures of the soul. Let no one call us dreamers when the mind is awake.
Moreover, in other matters there were clashings between the real military commanders and the quasi-military civilian officials; and it was unfortunately the case that, in spite of Mr. Lincoln's appeal to loyal men to "eschew cliquism" and "work together," there were abundant rivalries and jealousies and personal schemings.
For a few seconds there followed an awful struggle great wings beating mightily downwards, beak hammering, and fangs meeting the hammerings with audible clashings. It seemed that the bird could not quite lift the beast, and that the beast could not quite retain connection with solid earth. And then the bird rose, slowly, strainingly, with her vast pinions winnowing the air with deep "how-hows!"
"You object to it? Well, well, many people do. We all have these curious likes and dislikes. It is these clashings of personal taste which constitute what we call life. Yes. You were saying?" Mr. Renshaw wrinkled his forehead. "I have forgotten what I intended to say," he said querulously. "You have driven it out of my head." Smith clicked his tongue sympathetically. Mr.
So back went his thoughts to the flaws in his own course; and chiefly he bewailed his want of sympathy for his father. Material obedience and submission had been yielded, but, having little cause to believe himself beloved, his heart had never been called into action so as to soften the clashings of two essentially dissimilar characters.
It is these strange contradictions, these clashings of personal taste, which make up what we call life. Here we have, on the one hand " A man with a face like a walnut, who had hitherto lurked almost unseen behind a stout person in a serge suit, bobbed into the open, and spoke his piece. "Where's this fellow Windsor? W. Windsor. That's the man we want to see.
Freedom, in the sense of intellectual freedom, may perhaps be said to have been born in one place and at one time namely, in Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Of course, minglings and clashings of peoples had prepared the way. Ideas begin to count as soon as they break away from their local context.
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