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The Duke of Wellington was of opinion that the position was not a good one, and he is said to have remarked to Blucher: "Everyman knows his own people best, but I can only say that with a British army I should not occupy this ground as you do."
The Censor has been dodged, just as he was dodged many years ago, when Verdi's opera Nebuchadonozor was called Ninus or when Ben Hur was presented or The Daughters of Babylon. That official has already permitted the performance of Everyman and Hannele. Consequently, it is not easy to see that the suggested broadening of the basis has taken place.
All the prizes, all the scholarships and fellowships, go to other subjects, and mainly to the classics. Let any reader of Everyman stand up and say that I am exaggerating; I would only be too delighted to discover that I am wrong. Such being the attitude of those who are primarily responsible for our national education, can we wonder at the attitude of the general public?
And so the play ends; the body of Everyman is laid in the grave, but we know that his soul goes home to God. This play is meant to picture the life of every man or woman, and to show how unhappy we may be in the end if we have not tried to be good in this world.
PERHAPS the best Morality of which we know the author's name is Magnificence, by John Skelton. But, especially after Everyman, it is dull reading for little people, and it is not in order to speak of this play that I write about Skelton. John Skelton lived in the stormy times of Henry VIII, and he is called sometimes our first poet-laureate.
The framework of society does not fit the facts of nationality, and so the framework has gone to pieces. "The map of Europe has to be re-made. That is the key to the present movement." MAZZINI. Essays. The Scott Library. 1s. MAZZINI. Duties of Man, etc. Everyman Library. 1s. Anything written by Mazzini, the prophet of the national idea, can be recommended.
You all know that, and act upon it when you have to deal with a man for sixpence; but your religious dogmas, which make out that everyman comes into the world equally brutish and fiendish, make you afraid to confess it. I don't quarrel with a "douce" man like you, with a large organ of veneration, for following your bent. But if I am fiery, with a huge cerebellum, why am I not to follow mine?
J. S. Haldane. Dr. A. R. Wallace. Article in Everyman, October 18th, 1912. Sir William Tilden. Letter to The Times, September 9th,1912. Life and Matter, p. 106. Pp. 132, f. Pp. 164, f. Lecture at Birmingham, May, 1911. Creative Evolution, p. 280. Hibbert Journal, October, 1911.
The Morality generally ended in the triumph of virtue, the devil leaping into hell-mouth with Vice on his back. The best known of the Moralities is "Everyman," which has recently been revived in England and America.
"Everyman" is a kind of "Pilgrim's Progress," conceived with a daring and reverent imagination, so that God himself comes quite naturally upon the stage, and speaks out of a clothed and painted image.
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