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Political ideals and ultimate social aims may remain intact, but the immediate, practical maintenance of those standards of life which are necessary to ensure strong and fruitful reactions are in danger of being swept away. We have been destroying the life, the wealth and beauty of the world.
It proved how a passion and enthusiasm for music had been roused in France; and the passion, though unjust in its expression, was more fruitful and of far greater worth than indifference. The Schola Cantorum The Lamoureux Concerts had served their purpose, and, in their turn, their heroic mission came to an end.
Father Jose was too much preoccupied in reflection to notice the equivocal nature of this tribute, and, after a few moments' silence, said, as if continuing his thought, "But the seed they have planted shall thrive and prosper on this fruitful soil." As if answering the interrogatory, the stranger turned to the opposite direction, and, again waving his hat, said, in the same serious tone,
When we look upon the kingdoms of creation below man, we find three forms or planes of existence which await education and development. For instance, the function of a gardener is to till the soil of the mineral kingdom and plant a tree which under his training and cultivation will attain perfection of growth. If it be wild and fruitless, it may be made fruitful and prolific by grafting.
For a long time we journeyed on in the shade of these fruitful woods, till at length we entered the town through a large gate. Our enthusiastic conceptions of this renowned city were more and more toned down as we continued to advance. The houses in Damascus are almost all built of clay and earth, and many ugly wooden gables and heavy window-frames give a disagreeable ponderous air to the whole.
The European bird that corresponds to our robin is the blackbird, of which Tennyson sings: "O Blackbird, sing me something well; While all the neighbors shoot thee round I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground Where thou may'st warble, eat, and dwell." It quite startled me to see such a resemblance, to see, indeed, a black robin.
For the next twelvemonth the intercourse between the two poets was close and constant, and most fruitful in results of high moment to English literature.
For if, instead of a solid rock, we shall suppose a continent composed of either dry sand or watery mud, without solidity or stability, how imperfect still would be that world for the purpose of sustaining lofty trees and affording fruitful soils!
If this progress has demonstrated anything, it is that there is no such thing as genuine knowledge and fruitful understanding except as the offspring of doing. The analysis and rearrangement of facts which is indispensable to the growth of knowledge and power of explanation and right classification cannot be attained purely mentally just inside the head.
That is, a profession, steadily, seriously, and laboriously kept to, in order to provide the means of living; and beyond that, as the ultimate and real end of his life, the pursuit, in a way unattempted before, of all possible human knowledge, and of the methods to improve it and make it sure and fruitful. And so his life was carried out.
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