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Updated: June 7, 2025
It arrested our steps. We stood gaping helplessly. Then Cavor stole towards me. "I do not understand!" he whispered close to my face. He waved his hand vaguely skyward, the vague suggestion of still vaguer thoughts. "A hiding-place! If anything came..." I looked about us. I nodded my head in assent to him. We started off, moving stealthily with the most exaggerated precautions against noise.
For years, without any precise information, but merely by instinct, she had felt that England, beneath the surface, was not quite the island it had been and here was the awful proof. She gazed at her husband, as a wife ought to gaze at her husband in a crisis. His thoughts were much vaguer than hers, his thoughts about money being always extremely vague.
For our present purpose the distinction is not important; and I will permit myself to use either the word 'conception, or the still vaguer word 'idea, to designate the inner objects of contemplation, whether these be individual things, like 'the sun' or 'Julius Cæsar, or classes of things, like 'animal kingdom, or, finally, entirely abstract attributes, like 'rationality' or 'rectitude.
Freedom and deathless courage are its inheritance; but these throughout its history are accompanied by certain vaguer tendencies of thought and aspiration, the touch of things unseen, those impulses beyond the finite towards the Infinite, which display themselves so conspicuously in later ages.
We have the same semi-mythical aggregations, grown up around some small kernel of reality, but so changed, swollen, distorted, that it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false; becoming vaguer and vaguer too as the mists of time and sentiment gather more and more thickly around them, until at last we seem to be swimming dimly in a "moony vapour," which allows no dull peaks of reality to pierce through it at all.
Such ideas as nationality, citizenship, allegiance to a certain prince, patriotic feelings for a certain territory are rarer and vaguer than elsewhere, and yet the Hindu is dependent on his fellows and does not like to stand alone. So finding little satisfaction in the city or state he clings the more tenaciously to smaller corporations.
But by this action of erotic symbolism, on the other hand, we transfer the activity of the object into ourselves. When the idea of erotic symbolism as manifested in such definite and typical forms becomes realized, it further becomes clear that the vaguer manifestations of such symbolism are exceedingly widespread.
For, on such summer nights, under the red moon, an exodus from the East Side peoples the noble avenue with dingy spectres who shuffle along the gilded grilles and still façades of stone, up and down, to and fro, in quest of God knows what of air perhaps, perhaps of happiness, or of something even vaguer.
He asked himself that question. Was he communing in the dark with his own soul? He knew that he was not. The scent of this new and unknown flower grew stronger in the night, more penetrating and intentional. Yet was it vaguer, more distant, than that emitted by those other three flowers. The exact impression received by the doctor at this moment was very subtle.
And yet the whole of it has had its influence in shaping our character and defining our tendencies to judge and act. Although the ready memory is a great blessing to its possessor, the vaguer memory of a subject, of having once had to do with it, of its neighborhood, and of where we may go to recover it again, constitutes in most men and women the chief fruit of their education.
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