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"No, that's not thinkable," he agreed, slowly; "I am bound hand and foot. It isn't only what Alice as a wife claims from me. But there are Acton and Leslie; there is hardly a month that my brother doesn't propose some plan that would utterly wreck their affairs if I didn't put my foot down. They're both absolute children in money matters; Judge Lee is getting old there's no one to take my place.
During this demonstration I have, incidentally, though inexplicitly, pointed out the utility of art itself and of beauty. For beauty is that mode of existence of visible or audible or thinkable things which imposes on our contemplating energies rhythms and patterns of unity, harmony and completeness; and thereby gives us the foretaste and the habit of higher and more perfect forms of life.
A dreary time lay before him, with nobody to please, nobody to serve; with nobody to praise him. Grannie never praised him. She must have thought praise something wicked. And his father was in misery, for ever and ever! Only somehow that thought was not quite thinkable. It was more the vanishing of hope from his own life than a sense of his father's fate that oppressed him.
To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so. Memory is to mind as viscosity is to protoplasm, it gives a tenacity to thought a kind of pied a terre from which it can, and without which it could not, advance. Thought, in fact, and memory seem inseparable; no thought, no memory; and no memory, no thought.
"Doubtless the phenomenon was subjective," he said, with a somewhat ludicrous transition to the slang of science. "Granting the possibility of spiritual apparition and even materialization, yet the apparition and materialization of a half-gallon brown clay jug a piece of coarse, heavy pottery evolved from nothing that is hardly thinkable."
He tried at any rate to attach that feeling to it while he stopped before his companion. "The communication I speak of can't possibly belong so far as its date is concerned to these last days. The postmark, which is legible, does; but it isn't thinkable, for anything else, that she wrote !" He dropped, looking at her as if she'd understand. It was easy to understand. "On her deathbed?"
At this particular establishment the Schoppen were very tall and the beer was very good; and as the host and most of the guests were German, and their colloquial tongue was unknown to him, he was not drawn into any undue expenditure of speech. He watched his smoke and he thought, thought so hard that at last he appeared to himself to have exhausted the thinkable.
Thus discontinuity is thought for itself; it is thinkable in itself; we form an idea of it by a positive act of our mind; while the intellectual representation of continuity is negative, being, at bottom, only the refusal of our mind, before any actually given system of decomposition, to regard it as the only possible one. Of the discontinuous alone does the intellect form a clear idea.
Soames had an odd feeling that all this could not be true. But it was, down to the last least detail which had made it thinkable for him to defy all his fellow-men to keep faith with four children whose lives and errand he'd interfered with. The matter had been a very natural oversight, at first.
The unhappy man pitched forward on his face. Some of the mowers ran to pick him up. "Thee'st killed him, master, for sure!" cried one. "Ch't!" snarled Roger, and strode back to the house without another look. The law was in motion, then, and in motion to oust him! He could scarcely believe it; indeed, it was scarcely thinkable.
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