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The look in the eyes of his dog, happy in that he is short-lived, is one of infinite sadness. All graciousness must henceforth be a sorrow: it has to go with the sunsets. That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.
Either way, the reader understands that I disown the authority of that version as in any degree affecting myself. The reason which gives to this word aeonian what I do not scruple to call a dreadful importance, is the same reason, and no other, which prompted the dishonesty concerned in the ordinary interpretation of this word.
Meantime, all this speculation, first and last, is pure nonsense. Aeonian does not mean eternal; neither does it mean of limited duration; nor would the unsettling of aeonian in its old use, as applied to punishment, to torment, to misery, &c., carry with it any necessary unsettling of the idea in its application to the beatitudes of Paradise.
It might be very painful to renounce a long-cherished anticipation; but the necessity of doing so could not be received as a sufficient reason for adhering to the old unconditional use of the word aeonian. The argument is that we must retain the old sense of eternal, because else we lose upon one scale what we had gained upon the other. But what then? would be the reasonable man's retort.
The word happened to connect itself but that was no practical concern of mine; me it had not biassed in the one direction, nor should it have biassed any just critic in the counter, direction happened, I say, to connect itself with the ancient dispute upon the duration of future punishments. What was meant by the aeonian punishments in the next world?
B. But if it be an excess of blindness which can overlook the aeonian differences amongst even neutral entities, much deeper is that blindness which overlooks the separate tendencies of things evil and things good. Naturally, all evil is fugitive and allied to death.
Man, again, has a certain aeonian life; possibly ranging somewhere about the period of seventy years assigned in the Psalms. That is, in a state as highly improved as human infirmity and the errors of the earth herself, together with the diseases incident to our atmosphere, &c., could be supposed to allow, possibly the human race might average seventy years for each individual.
No sudden heaven, nor sudden hell, for man, But thro' the Will of One who knows and rules And utter knowledge is but utter love AEonian Evolution, swift or slow, Thro' all the Spheres an ever opening height, An ever lessening earth." The Ring is, in fact, a ghost story based on a legend told by Mr Lowell about a house near where he had once lived; one of those houses vexed by
'She rides to please her horse now, but she'll have him as quiet as yours before long, rejoined her son, both a little angry and a little amused at her being called a hoiden who was to him like an angel grown young with aeonian life. 'Yes, resumed his mother, as if she would be fair, 'she does ride well! If only she were a lady, that I might ask her to ride with me!
when the hills and streams were not yet "dispeopled of their dreams." Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution. In a notebook, mixed with Greek, is a poem on the Moon not the moon of Selene, "the orbed Maiden," but of astronomical science.
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