Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine
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Excerpt from Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine: January June 1881 We follow the calm days of their retired leisure with a pleasant sense of fitness. It is seemly and natural that they should discourse to us seated in the easy-chair of old age, which is a natural throne and pulpit; and the old man´s narrative of his youth has a tender interest, a suppressed and gentle pathos, which goes to our hearts. But it is only a few who have this blessed and beautiful old ago. The majority of men carry their cares with them to the very brink of the grave, and only got rid of their burden when the shoulders fail under it: indeed the majority of men do not live to old age at all, and so have neither the means nor the opportunity of giving us the benefit of its seclusion and calm. Sometimes - the will and all surrounding circumstances being in favour of the intended revelation - it is postponed too long, till the hand falls powerless and the memory is insufficient to the task. Sometimes just enough is accomplished to make us feel the excellence of the method, when the pen drops from the feeble fingers, and has to be taken up by somebody who knows the subject only as others know it, from outside, seeing the mountains like molehills, and upsetting the perspective of events. But yet we have a sufficiently large list of completed and finished efforts to show their value; and it is an instructive and somewhat sad pleasure for the student of human nature to watch those shadows as they appear before him, each anxious to give the best account of itself, some in serene human unconsciousness thrusting their own little tale of events between him and the history of the world, finding their infant or their apple-tree of more importance than the convulsions of nations. Still even an apple-tree, the wonderful crop upon which so excites its owner as to confuse his apprehension of the importance of the greatest public event, is of use in its way as revealing that undercurrent of peaceable life which streams serenely on, whatever storms may convulse the air, and which is the real secret of national continuance. So long as that goes on unaffected, the heart of a country is safe though its throne should ho upset a hundred times. Thus the narrowest domestic record widens our experience of human nature, which, of all things involved, changes least from one generation to another; and the spectacle of its insensibility to the great catastrophes and revolutions going on around, its calm perseverance in its own way though the pillars of the earth should be shaken, is as interesting and instructive as any other part of the perennial drama. To see how little agitated is the race even when it is agitated most, to listen to a soft little lovo-strain singing itself to all the gentle echoes under the very horrors and fierce excitements of the French Revolution, and to know that the least misadventure of his son Tom was more important to a village chronicler than the tragic exit of "the martyr Charles" or the coming of "the hero William," are curious revelations; but they fill up - better even than those narratives of the back-stairs and records of all the underplots that influence a great event, to which the world is so much addicted - the full and catholic story of human life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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