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We recognise his emotional calibre, which is of a dramatic intensity, though never over-emphasising the morbid. Of his intellectual grasp there is no question. He possesses pathos, passion, sincerity, and humour. Wide knowledge of mankind and nature he has, and in the field of moral power we need but ask if he is a Yes-Sayer or a No-Sayer, as the Nietzschians have it.
The solemn proofs, so laboriously deduced from life insurance statistics, that the man who uses alcohol, even moderately, dies slightly sooner than the teetotaler these proofs merely show that this man is one who leads an active and vigorous life, and so faces hazards and uses himself up in brief, one who lives at high tempo and with full joy, what Nietzsche used to call the ja-sager, or yes-sayer.
His philosophy of life was exalted an exalted socialism. He was, to employ Nietzsche's pithy phrase, a "Yes-Sayer"; he said "Yes" to the universe. A man of vigorous affirmations, he worshipped nature, not for its pictorial aspects, but for the god which is the leaf and rock and animal, for the god that beats in our pulses and shines in the clear sunlight.
"'Deed I do!" and Sam Graves beamed broadly, "I didn't dare ask them myself, meant to get you to do it. Coax 'em, Muriel. Make 'em say yes." Alicia took it upon herself to accept this invitation, though Dolly insisted it would depend on Mrs. Berry's sanction. "Who's Mrs. Berry?" asked Muriel. "Is she a dragon?" "No, indeed," smiled Dotty; "she's the dearest old yes-sayer in the world!"
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