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So I took up again my pencil and my paper. I thought I would add a paragraph or two, in case I go down in the morning. If I come through all right, I shall wipe these paragraphs out. Meanwhile, in these final hours of wonder and waiting, it is happiness to write on. I fear that, as I write, I may appear to dogmatise, for I am still only twenty-two. But I must speak while I can.
It is dangerous, however, to dogmatise on possibilities.
The future peace of the world largely turns on the question whether we have, as is sometimes said and often assumed, an instinctive affection for those human beings whose features and colour are like our own, combined with an instinctive hatred for those who are unlike us. On this point, pending a careful examination of the evidence by the psychologists, it is difficult to dogmatise.
On the other hand, the Japanese who has not left his own country, but is of an observant nature and of a logical disposition, fails to comprehend why the European in Europe should dogmatise upon and affect to be disgusted with what he terms the immorality of the Japanese.
It is the expression on this earth which makes me laugh; as if it were possible to go anywhere else in search of happiness. 'Mors ultima linea rerum est'. Yes, death is the end of all, for after death man has no senses; but I do not say that the soul shares the fate of the body. No one should dogmatise on uncertainties, and after death everything is doubtful.
Lincoln lacked, and without which it is but waste of words to dogmatise on strategy. O.R. volume 19 part 1 pages 97-8. McClellan's task, therefore, so long as he had to depend for his supplies on a single line of railway, was not quite so simple as Mr. Lincoln imagined. Nevertheless, on November 7 Lee decided to unite his army.
What authority had the boundary man or I to dogmatise on the Coming Australian? Just the same authority as Marcus Clarke, or Trollope, or Froude, or Francis Adams and that is exactly none. Deductive reasoning of this kind is seldom safe.
If you ever return home, Tom, and are persuaded, `at the earnest request of numerous friends, to write a book, don't dogmatise as to facts; remember how limited your experience has been, and don't forget that facts in one valley are not facts at all in another valley eight or ten miles off."
The second composition which we shall consider will show how dangerous it is to dogmatise on the strength of internal evidence. Op. 16, a lightsome Rondeau with a dramatic Introduction, is, like the Bolero, not without its beauties; but in spite of greater individuality, ranks, like it, low among the master's works, being patchy, unequal, and little poetical.
The stranger took this in, but seemed a little to challenge it. "Well, that's reassuring, if one sometimes fancies there are fewer." "Fewer than there used to be? I see what you mean," said Mitchy. "But if it has struck you so, that's awfully interesting." He glared and grinned and mused. "I wonder." "Well, we shall see." His friend seemed to wish not to dogmatise. "SHALL we?"
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