James Stephens
The Crock of Gold
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Excerpt: ...of her con- sciousness. All justice is, therefore, readjustment. A thwarted consciousness has every right to clamour for assistance, but not for punishment. This latter can only be sought by timorous and egotistic Intellect, which sees the Earth from which it has emerged and into which it must return again in its own despite, and so, being self- centred and envious and a renegade from life, Reason is more cruelly unjust, and more timorous than any other manifestation of the divinely erratic energy-erratic, be- cause, as has been said, the crooked roads are the roads of genius. Nature grants to all her creatures an un- restricted l…
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Excerpt: ...of her con- sciousness. All justice is, therefore, readjustment. A thwarted consciousness has every right to clamour for assistance, but not for punishment. This latter can only be sought by timorous and egotistic Intellect, which sees the Earth from which it has emerged and into which it must return again in its own despite, and so, being self- centred and envious and a renegade from life, Reason is more cruelly unjust, and more timorous than any other manifestation of the divinely erratic energy-erratic, be- cause, as has been said, the crooked roads are the roads of genius. Nature grants to all her creatures an un- restricted liberty, quickened by competitive appetite, to succeed or to fail; save only to Reason, her Demon of Order, which can do neither, and whose wings she has clipped for some reason with which I am not yet ac- quainted. It may be that an unrestricted mentality would endanger her own intuitive perceptions by shackling all her other organs of perception, or annoy her by vexatious efforts at creative rivalry. It will, therefore, be understood that when the Lepre- cauns of Gort na Cloca Mora acted in the manner about to be recorded, they were not prompted by any lewd passion for revenge, but were merely striving to recon- struct a rhythm which was their very existence, and which must have been of direct importance to the Earth. Re- venge is the vilest passion known to life. It has made Law possible, and by doing so it gave to Intellect the first grip at that universal dominion which is its ambition. A Leprecaun is of more value to the Earth than is a Prime Minister or a stockbroker, because a Leprecaun dances and makes merry, while a Prime Minister knows nothing of these natural virtues-consequently, an injury done to a Leprecaun afflicts the Earth with misery, and justice is, for these reasons, an imperative and momentous neces- sity. A community of Leprecauns without a crock of gold is a blighted and merriless community, and...
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-69923-5
- EAN: 9781153699235
- Produktnummer: 14787205
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 52 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.3 cm 122 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 122
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