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The more mental operations we can turn over to the subconscious realm, the happier we will be, and the more efficient. Morality, theology, and everything really worth while, as I understand it, spring from the subconscious." The Captain's look of cheer would vanish. "Maybe there's something in that." "If so," Gissing continued, "then perhaps consciousness is entirely spurious.
I heard him pottering back to his bedroom again.... I waited till he was quiet and back to sleep then I stole forth in the quiet moonlight near dawn. It gave me a pleasure to vanish like smoke.
Here is what the great politicians call a theory, but in practice they can make that theory vanish in smoke; and ministers possess in a greater degree than even the lawyers of Normandy, the art of making fact yield to fancy.
That one brief glimmer was enough to show the thief a right impossible sight. The glow struck answering lights from the polished sides of the brown bag. The bag was hanging in air, some six inches above the grass and perhaps five feet away from him. Then he saw it swig frivolously to one side and vanish in the night. The astonished man had seen more.
They observe no order or sequence, but appear and vanish as they will 'come like shadows, so depart. Columbus, alone upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain glimmer of the light, 'rising and falling with the waves, like a torch in the bark of some fisherman, which is the shining star of a new world.
Athalaric, Amalasuntha, Theodahad, last of the Amal blood, had held the throne in brief succession and were gone; warriors chosen at will by the Gothic host, mere kings of the battlefield, had risen and perished; reduced to a wandering tribe, the nation which alone of her invaders had given peace and hope to Italy, which alone had reverenced and upheld the laws, polity, culture of Rome, would soon, it was thought, be utterly destroyed, or vanish in flight beyond the Alps.
He must not allow that. Nothing could justify that. "You are looking very serious," she commented. Her own face had in the meanwhile grown brighter. "It is all from within," he answered, "all from within. And now presto! it is gone." Truly the problem did seem to vanish as he allowed himself to become conscious of the picture she made there in the sunshine.
They instinctively lowered their voices, and though neither made reference to it, both gave more attention to it than to their own words. They heard nothing of the tramp of horses, but saw the shadowy figures of several men hovering on what may be termed the line of invisibility. Sometimes they were distinguished quite clearly, and then seemed to vanish; but the youths could not be mistaken.
The face, with large features and strong lines, of the square order, yet well filled out, was apparently massive at first sight; but again, as with the body, the massiveness seemed to vanish, and a conviction to grow of a tremendous and excessive mental or spiritual strength that lay behind, sleeping in the deeps of his being.
It is not less evident that, on another side, nature ought not to act as a force with regard to mind, in order to give occasion for a fine moral expression; for there, where physical nature commands alone, it is absolutely necessary that the character of the man should vanish. We can conceive three sorts of relation of man with himself: I mean the sensuous part of man with the reasonable part.
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