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But, although good-nature is temperamental, and although some men and women are, by their force of imagination and charity, forced to poetize the truth, the question remains an open one, Which is the nearest to truth, a pessimist or an optimist? The faculty of observation differs, and the faculty of language is variable.
Gyuri's eyes shone with delight. "Bravo, Sztolarik!" he exclaimed, "only the gods had such memories as you have." "You are a lucky fellow, Gyuri. I have an impression we are on the right track at last, and that you will find the money." "I begin to think so too," answered Gyuri, who was in turns optimist or pessimist, as the occasion presented itself. "But what can have become of old Müncz?"
But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first. Or he might feel that he had actually inflicted frightful punishment on the cat by keeping him alive.
But too many boys now leave school with settled opinions derived from the very latest thing out, from the newest German pessimist or American socialist. It may, however, be argued that ideas of these sorts are like measles, and that it is better to take them early and be done with them for ever.
As it happened, he had a good deal of desultory medical knowledge, for the problems and perils of the body had always attracted his pessimist sense. Yet it did not help him much at this juncture.
Schopenhauer, the pessimist, had a sufficiently optimistic conviction that his message to the world would ultimately be listened to a conviction that never failed him during a lifetime of disappointments, of neglect in quarters where perhaps he would have most cherished appreciation; a conviction that only showed some signs of being justified a few years before his death.
"Then why not sit down and rest?" "Because I'd 'ave to get up again, wouldn't I?" "Are you hungry? "'Ungry aren't the word for it." "And how is trade?" "Couldn't be worse!" "I perceive you are a pessimist," said I. "No," said he, "I'm a pedler baptism'l name Richard, commonly known as 'Gabbin' Dick." "At least yours is a fine healthy trade," said I. "'Ow so?"
There would be a bright and positive, clear Hellenic perception of facts. The vapours of Unreason and Sentimentalism would be blown away before they were productive. Where would Pessimist and Optimist be? They would in any case have a diminished audience.
Dickens was a pessimist and always censorious and as he had been feted and feasted with the fat of the land, he expected that he should have been entertained in kingly quarters on shipboard. But because things did not come up to his expectations he dipped his pen in vitriol and began to criticise.
It is strange that this happy form of polygamy did not occur to Herr Schopenhauer. It may be because he was a pessimist and a man. The most nervous time of a man's life is the day of his wedding.
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