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Updated: June 4, 2025
For are not these, too, of the very soul of the people? 'He who pointed out the way to those that had lost it. Life of the Buddha. The life-story of Prince Theiddatha, who saw the light and became the Buddha twenty-five centuries ago, has been told in English many times. It has been told in translations from the Pali, from Burmese, and from Chinese, and now everyone has read it.
Now this intense, dynamic fashion of revealing character through narrative talk and it is commonly a whole life-story which is condensed within the few lines of a dramatic monologue touches lyricism at two points. The first is the fact that many dramatic monologues use distinctively lyric measures.
They were just enough anxious about it to find in it an endless theme for planning and castle-building a motive for the wonderful things they were to accomplish in the way of making money for their grandfather, and as a means of triumphing over Jacob Holt, whom they were inclined to regard as the villain of their life-story.
Whatever posterity may do with his music, he has left a life-story of strange perplexities, in which apparent frenzies of effeminacy and hysteria, of passionate terror and helplessness at self-control fall in strange contrast with the temper of his music, which at its gentlest is masculinely gentle and at its fiercest is virile to the point of the barbaric.
Not for four years now have I seen my girl. Oh, if I could see her face once again!" Here the poor woman, who was opening up her life-story to the astonished and frightened child, lost her self-control, and sobbed hysterically. Cecile fetched water, and gave it to her, and in a few moments she became calm. "There now, my dear, sit down and listen.
If these pages had been devoted to a critical examination of the historical documents on which his life-story is based we should also have found that he continually told lies about himself, and misrepresented facts when the truth proved inconvenient to him; that he was vain and boastful to a degree that can only excite our compassion.
He disregarded her flatteries and threatenings; He would not have her help and despised her hate; He prosecuted His path in defiance of her, and has left an imperishable glory behind. Thus He overcame the world. And he conquered as our representative and head. What He did for Himself He is prepared to repeat in the life-story of His followers.
We should lose one of the main lessons of this life-story by passing too hastily over such an event as this conversion and the exact manner of it, for here is to be found the first great step in God's preparation of the workman for his work. Nothing is more wonderful in history than the unmistakable signs and proofs of preadaptation.
It is a simple matter to choose in such a book as this the best place in which to tell something of the life-story of, say, Giotto and Brunelleschi and the della Robbias; for at a certain point their genius is found concentrated Donatello's and the della Robbias' in the Bargello and those others at the Duomo and Campanile.
His books and papers were the excuse for his journey; for the rest, no one suspected nor so thought Truedale was any one ever to know. That part of his life-story was done with; it had been interpreted bunglingly and ignorantly to be sure, but the lesson, learned by failure, had sunk deep in his heart. He arranged his private work in the little room under the eaves.
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