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You ask for items, details of my early life of genealogy and parentage, particularly of the women of my ancestry, and of its far-back Netherlands stock on the maternal side of the region where I was born and raised, and my mother and father before me, and theirs before them with a word about Brooklyn and New York cities, the times I lived there as lad and young man.
It is because the urge to war comes, not from the masses of a nation but from certain classes within it. In every nation, since the dawn of history, there have been found, beside the toiling masses, three great main cliques or classes, the Religious, the Military, and the Commercial. It was so in far-back ancient India; it is so now.
The words as they went through his mind sent a chill to Sir Tom's breast. Might it be that they would be said again once more and that far-back sin bring thus a punishment all the more bitter for being so long delayed. Human nature will never get to believe that God is not lying in wait somewhere to exact payment of every account. "She understands that," said Jock suddenly.
"Can't you stick it for a bit, if they are decent to you?" And, rather than cause him any extra worry, Cecilia decided that she must "stick it." Of her father she saw little. He was, just as she remembered him in her far-back childhood at Twickenham, vague and colourless.
The Moon, in fact, is a world which has burned itself out. How strange the thought that in a far-back period the inhabitants of Earth, had Earth then been inhabited, might have seen the glare of countless volcanoes diffused, lurid and threatening, over the face of their satellite!
He was exceedingly proud of his name, which was in a way a badge of ancient descent having been borne by a long line of slaves, his ancestors, since that far-back time when the Dutch went crazy over collecting tulip-bulbs.
Cold and sparkling and crystal clear, the gushing water enticed every wayfarer to bend and drink, whether he was thirsty or no. John is back in his own land now, and doubtless often goes to drink of that veritable fountain of youth. Homespun jeans and linsey used to be the universal garb of the mountain people. Nowadays you will seldom find them, except in far-back places.
If Christianity has any real essence, that essence is perhaps expressed in some such ritual or practice of Sacrifice, and we see that the dim beginnings of this idea date from the far-back customs of savages coming down from a time anterior to all recorded history.
In some far-back generation a Trenager had saved the life of an Arundel, and ever since, when any adult of one family was buried an adult of the other threw the first earth upon the coffin, in token of their remembrance and of their friendship. Mr. Arundel was aware of the tradition, and he desired to perpetuate it.
Pindar, three hundred years after Hesiod, had confirmed the existence of the Islands of the Blest, where the good led a blameless, tearless, life. The references to a supposed far-back state of peace and happiness are indeed numerous. See arts. by Margaret Scholes, Socialist Review, Nov. and Dec. 1912.
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