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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
·
George Gissing
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X.
It
may
well
be
that
what
we
call
the
unknowable
will
be
for
ever
the
unknown.
In
that
thought
is
there
not
a
pathos
beyond
words?
It
may
be
that
the
human
race
will
live
and
pass
away;
all
mankind,
from
him
who
in
the
world's
dawn
first
shaped
to
his
fearful
mind
an
image
of
the
Lord
of
Life,
to
him
who,
in
the
dusking
twilight
of
the
last
age,
shall
crouch
before
a
deity
of
stone
or
wood;
and
never
one
of
that
long
lineage
have
learnt
the
wherefore
of
his
being.
The
prophets,
the
martyrs,
their
noble
anguish
vain
and
meaningless;
the
wise
whose
thought
strove
to
eternity,
and
was
but
an
idle
dream;
the
pure
in
heart
whose
life
was
a
vision
of
the
living
God,
the
suffering
and
the
mourners
whose
solace
was
in
a
world
to
come,
the
victims
of
injustice
who
cried
to
the
Judge
Supreme--all
gone
down
into
silence,
and
the
globe
that
bare
them
circling
dead
and
cold
through
soundless
space.
The
most
tragic
aspect
of
such
a
tragedy
is
that
it
is
not
unthinkable.
The
soul
revolts,
but
dare
not
see
in
this
revolt
the
assurance
of
its
higher
destiny.
Viewing
our
life
thus,
is
it
not
easier
to
believe
that
the
tragedy
is
played
with
no
spectator?
And
of
a
truth,
of
a
truth,
what
spectator
can
there
be?
The
day
may
come
when,
to
all
who
live,
the
Name
of
Names
will
be
but
an
empty
symbol,
rejected
by
reason
and
by
faith.
Yet
the
tragedy
will
be
played
on.
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