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There was another class of men and women who were optimists. They predicted that the city would be rebuilt, but that it would require from twenty to thirty years. There was still another class of men and women who knew by observation that it required no more time to build ten buildings than one, provided the Spirit of Energy and Determination existed, to fortify the desire.
"On the left centre are grouped that increasing section whose view is that since everything is very bad, 'the good' is ultimate extinction 'Peace, perfect peace, as the poet says. You will recollect the old tag: 'To be or not to be. These are they who have answered that question in the negative; pessimists masquerading to an unsuspecting public as optimists.
There was the usual exchange of wit. "When's the bloomin' war goin' to end?" asked one north-country lad. "Dunno," replied one of the south-shires. "We've planted some daffydils in front of our trench." "Bloomin' optimists!" snorted the man from the north. "We've planted acorns." The way they take air raids in England is illustrated by the following conversation from Punch: "Just ask Dr.
The cuckoo comes the nearest to being a pessimist, with his doleful call, and the catbird and the jay, with their peevish and complaining notes, might well be placed in that category, were it not for their songs when the love passion makes optimists even of them.
"I told you that the optimists usually had their way," said Happy. "We persisted and found that orchard of apples. We persisted and found that fat porker. Now, I have been wishing for this fog, and I kept on wishing for it until it came." Harry laughed. "You do make the best of things, Happy," he said.
Both the young girls thought the dream gave a very hard view of the optimists, who look forward to a reorganization of society which shall rid mankind of the terrible evils of over-crowding and competition. Number Seven was quite excited about the matter. He had himself drawn up a plan for a new social arrangement. He had shown it to the legal gentleman who has lately joined us.
It would be hard to overestimate the weariness and cynicism and despair that have been caused in the world by its more recklessly hopeful men the men who plump down happily anywhere and hope, the optimists who are merely slovenly in their minds about evil.
The pictures which we are gradually getting from memoirs and letters are almost too grotesque for belief, and there is some little excuse for the hearty optimists who look back with complacency on the past, and thank their stars that they have escaped from the domain of evil.
It was characteristic of Virginia's fisheries that the pessimists occupied the stage for a while, then the optimists. An example of the whipping-up of enthusiasm is this discourse of Edward Williams writing on Virginia at mid-century. China was a fabulous country, therefore he compared Virginia with it.
It is a vantage-point peculiarly fitted to the man of philosophic mind: for from it may be seen that varied, never-ending pageant, which men call Golf, in a number of its aspects. To your right, on the first tee, stand the cheery optimists who are about to make their opening drive, happily conscious that even a topped shot will trickle a measurable distance down the steep hill.
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