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I felt that a great body of unsatisfied men and women existed, but that I was powerless to get in touch with them; I had discovered that truth, as you have so ably pointed out, is disguised and distorted by ancient dogmas; and that the old Authority, as you say, no longer carries weight." "Have you found the new one?" Mr. Engel demanded.
Engel, "brings me to another aspect of authority. I wonder if it has struck you? In mediaeval times, when a bishop spoke ex cathedra, his authority, so far as it carried weight, came from two sources. First, the supposed divine charter of the Church to save and damn. That authority is being rapidly swept away. Second, he spoke with all the weight of the then accepted science and philosophy.
Wo seine Engel ihre Veste bauen, Sind Hollenkunste Spott." "Gebt kein Pardon! Konet Ihr das Schwert nicht heben, So wurgt sie ohne Scheu! Und hoeh verkauft den letzten Tropfen Leben, Der Tod macht Alle freil" Uplift your eagle banners to the sky For victory they wave!
But I was never in a position to verify this because, around me, he used only an odd and utterly incomprehensible dialect. The second stranger deserves a more detailed description. A disciple of such character-judging anatomists as Gratiolet or Engel could have read this man's features like an open book.
I must be content; I want to see you, wherever it may be; if Zurich is too far for you, I will come to Basle. Paris begins almost to be unpleasant to me in my imagination; I am afraid of Berlioz. With my bad French, I am simply lost. I have found many silly letters here, amongst others the enclosed from Director Engel, of Kroll's establishment, Berlin.
And right then and there, with absolutely no warning at all, there came to him, as you might say from the clear sky, a great idea an idea so magnificent that he almost dropped the youngest Miss Engel off his lap at the splendid shock of it. With solicitude he glanced down at the small, moist, pink, lumpy bundle of prickly heat and sore gums.
Engel, and was drawn towards him now with a strong sympathy and curiosity. "Well," replied Mr. Engel, "I'm glad to hear you say that." He restrained a gasp. Was this the orthodox Mr. Hodder of St. John's? "Why," said Hodder, sitting down, "I've learned, as you have, by experience. Only my experience hasn't been so hopeful as yours that is, if you regard yours as hopeful.
So totally ignorant was Engel of the spirit of Grecian art. The nearer I draw to the present times the more I wish to be general in my observations, and to avoid entering into a minute criticism of works of living writers with part of whom I have been, or still am, in relations of personal friendship or hostility.
In the trash box under the sink a dozen crumpled sheets of paper testified to his failure, and now, alone with the youngest Miss Engel, he brooded over it and got low in his mind and let his pipe go smack out.
Since I have been here in this city," he added, simply, "my days have been filled with a continued perplexity when I was not too busy to think. Yes, there was an unacknowledged element of fear in my attitude, though I comforted myself with the notion that opinions, philosophical and scientific, were in a state of flux." "Yes, yes," said Mr. Engel, "I comprehend.
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