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Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.
How much in Shakspeare lies hid; his sorrows, his silent struggles known to himself; much that was not known at all, not speakable at all: like roots, like sap and forces working underground! Speech is great; but Silence is greater. Withal the joyful tranquillity of this man is notable.
"The end" ran through his mind, to the exclusion of all speakable thoughts. "And so," she said, presently, breaking the silence, "it comes to good-bye." For half a minute he did not answer. Then he gathered his resolution. "There is one thing I MUST say." "Well?" she said, surprised and abruptly forgetting the recent argument. "I ask no return. But " Then he stopped. "I won't say it. It's no good.
For mankind is ruled and guided, in the long run, not by practical considerations, not by self-interest, not by compromises; but by theories and principles, and those of the most abstruse, delicate, supernatural, and literally unspeakable kind; which, whether they be according to reason or not, are so little according to logic that is, to speakable reason that they cannot be put into speech.
"That is as large an answer as you have ever given me, I think. Is there any speakable reason?" "You know the reason," she said, looking away from him. "I am not sure that I do. Is it because the moneygods have been unpropitious because these robber barons have looted your railroad?" "No; that is only part of it the smallest part." "I hoped so: if you have too little, I have a good bit too much.
I have heard him say, however, the speakable motives of his deviation from the straight road were at the time far less effectual in moving him thereto than a something which he could not tell, that with an invisible hand took his horse, as it were, by the bridle-rings and constrained him to go into the Kilwinning track.
The young Englishman took his leave, and Polly Brewster went to her room, to freshen up for luncheon, carrying with her the sobriquet she had just heard. Certainly, applied to its subject, it had a mucilaginous consistency. It stuck. "'The Unspeakable Perk," she repeated, with a little chuckle. "If I had a month to train him in, eh, what a speakable Perk I'd make him!
And this woman, this wretch, this creature for whom no speakable name could be found, was his own mother, and was henceforth to stand in the place of her whose mere memory had been half divine.
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