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Experience has been compared to the stern-light of a ship which shines only on the road that has been traversed. But the stern-light of a ship that sails before you is a head-light to you. You do not need to try everything for yourself in order to understand what it means.
In my rearing-jars, which are supplied with fine and very loose earth, they descend to a depth of three or four inches at most. I dig up a few in mid-winter. I always find them carrying their faint stern-light. About the month of April they come up again to the surface, there to continue and complete their evolution. From start to finish the Glow-worm's life is one great orgy of light.
Shorewards, however, it descends by gradual ledges. Beguiled by the bonfire, or mistaking Ruby's lantern for the tossing stern-light of a comrade, the second ship had charged full-tilt on the reef and hung herself upon it, as a hunter across a fence.
In my rearing-jars, which are supplied with fine and very loose earth, they descend to a depth of three or four inches at most. I dig up a few in mid-winter. I always find them carrying their faint stern-light. About the month of April, they come up again to the surface, there to continue and complete their evolution. From start to finish, the Glow-worm's life is one great orgy of light.
Nothing is more terrible than this futility of the past. Such scenes as this discredit the value of experience, and attach a terrible reality to the conclusion of Coleridge, that "it is like the stern-light of a vessel illuminating only the path over which we have traveled." Nor did the future possess any more power over their destinies than the past.
It has been beautifully said that Reason is the compass by which we direct our course; and Revelation the pole star by which we correct its variations. Experience, like the stern-light of a ship, only shows us the path which has been passed over. Happiness, like the violet, is only a way-side flower. Original.
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