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"I feel no call," he said, "to make a visit of literary propagandism in England. All my impulses to work of that kind would rather employ me at home." He does not like the idea of "coaxing" or advertising to get him an audience. He would like to read lectures before institutions or friendly persons who sympathize with his studies.
In the literary form that the popular productions received, the influence of those who guided the religious thought into its proper channels is to be clearly seen. The Etana Legend. It will be recalled that we came across a hero Etana in the Gilgamesh epic.
"He made Andalus a great market for the literary productions of every clime ... so that rich men in Cordova, however illiterate they might be, rewarded writers and poets with the greatest munificence, and spared neither trouble nor expense in forming libraries."
When a young painter, who had just married, told Sir Joshua that he was preparing to pursue his studies in Italy, that great painter exclaimed, "Married! then you are ruined as an artist!" The same principle has influenced literary men.
'Irony of Fate! he echoed her. 'I thought you were above that literary jargon. 'And I thought I was: or thought it would be put in a dialect practically explicable, she answered, smiling at the lion roused.
There is all the difference in the world between the man who thus speaks what he knows from an inner impulse and the man whose sermon is simply a literary exercise on a Scripture theme, and who speaks only because Sunday has come round and the bell rung and he must do his duty.
As a matter of fact, David, I am rapidly coming to the conviction that there is no such thing as time surely there can be no time here within Pellucidar, where there are no means for measuring or recording time. Why, the Mahars themselves take no account of such a thing as time. I find here in all their literary works but a single tense, the present.
I suppose it is because, in the first place, sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy; and in the next, because I depend so much upon surrounding circumstances. When there is no call upon me, and nothing to put me to the test, I fall back into melancholy; and so the practical man, the cheerful man, the literary man, does not appear in these pages.
And they gave admirable work of various kinds work especially admirable if we remember that there was no general literary uprising with us as there was, in France and elsewhere, about 1830. But undoubtedly it might be contended that something further was needed: and it came. This was verisimilitude the holding of the true mirror to actual society.
The rough, clear, homely English of his tracts, the speech of the ploughman and the trader of the day though coloured with the picturesque phraseology of the Bible, is in its literary use as distinctly a creation of his own as the style in which he embodied it, the terse vehement sentences, the stinging sarcasms, the hard antitheses which roused the dullest mind like a whip.
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