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Updated: June 9, 2025
In addition to the work of the scientists, there are the essays and histories of Macaulay and Carlyle, the essays and varied prose of Newman, the art and social philosophy of Ruskin, the critical essays of Matthew Arnold and Swinburne. Even such prosaic objects as wood and brick were to his retrospective gaze "half mere soul-stuff, floated thither from who knows where."
I was groping into his soul-stuff as he made a practice of groping in the soul-stuff of others. I was exploring virgin territory. A strange, a terribly strange, region was unrolling itself before my eyes. "In as few words as possible," he began, "Spencer puts it something like this: First, a man must act for his own benefit to do this is to be moral and good.
He realized that with them he was dealing with soul-stuff, and that Destiny awaited just around the corner. When Charles was fourteen years old he had gravitated to the cashier's desk, and his pay was twelve shillings a week. He was large for his age, and the life of the streets had sharpened his wits, so he was old for his years.
Man has a many-sided nature, and like the moon reveals only certain phases at certain times. And as there is one side of the moon that is never revealed at all to dwellers on the planet Earth, so mortals may unconsciously conceal certain phases of soul-stuff from each other.
Aristocratic origin is as inscrutable as the darkness of the past night. A mighty aristocrat of to-day may be of the meanest soul-stuff, and the beggar at his door of the noblest. But respect both of them equally, knowing that both of them are of the same royal origin. The Most High names both of them His children. For the same reason respect asses and sheep and trees and stones.
To be ever attaining you, and yet never attaining you, and for this to last forever, always fresh and new, and always with the first flush upon us. "That is not the way they said it. On my lips their love-philosophy is mangled. And who am I to delve into their soul-stuff? I am a frog, on the dank edge of a great darkness, gazing goggle-eyed at the mystery and wonder of their flaming souls.
Sometimes this essence not necessarily the finest element in a man's or a woman's nature, but soul-stuff that we lack disappears. In fact, it invariably disappears. It may be that it has been transformed in the processes of their growth; it may also be that it has utterly vanished by some inadvertence, or that we ourselves have absorbed it." "Then we throw them away?"
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