From the INTRODUCTORY. THIS is a book for those who have leisure to think. To the hasty reader and the careless critic it has nothing to say, beyond bidding them God-speed in the perusal of any kind of literature which suits their state of mind. I am writing for such persons as these: - For the voyager to far countries, who can take one or two small volumes in his small luggage. It may help him to prepare for a better understanding of the relation between the people he is leaving behind and those whose acquaintance he is ...
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From the INTRODUCTORY. THIS is a book for those who have leisure to think. To the hasty reader and the careless critic it has nothing to say, beyond bidding them God-speed in the perusal of any kind of literature which suits their state of mind. I am writing for such persons as these: - For the voyager to far countries, who can take one or two small volumes in his small luggage. It may help him to prepare for a better understanding of the relation between the people he is leaving behind and those whose acquaintance he is about to make. For the young mother, who has a little time to read on Sunday evening after her baby has gone to sleep, and plenty of time to think over what she has read while she makes its clothes or holds it to her breast. It may help her to steer the child into something like its true place in the world in which it will have to live. For the cloistered sister who is beginning to wonder why she cut herself off from the joys which other women prize-provided, that is to say, that she has the courage to ask the question of God, and wait to hear His answer; not thinking it necessary to stun herself, as the heathen do, with vain repetitions of pious statements which she does not believe but only thinks she ought to believe. For the lady of the demi-monde: -provided she has the courage to face her situation calmly in the morning hours; not thinking it necessary to stun herself all day long with noise, drink, affectations, and the strumming of unmusical tunes on some unmusical instrument. For the man or woman condemned by circumstances either to a life of monotonous drudgery or to one of dreary idleness, or to a still more dreary round of so-called social duties, which are not really due to anyone, and of so-called social pleasures which do not please. For the man who knows he has something to tell the world, but has not found his way to any adequate mode of utterance. For the paralytic confined to his chair. For the felon confined in a gaol. And, last and chiefly, for the patient in the lunatic asylum. For any and all who have, temporarily or finally, drifted out of the main current of social life into some stagnant (and perhaps muddy) backwater. Whoever the reader is, he or she will find the understanding of the book much facilitated by interposing at least one night between the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next. Dear friends, never suppose that, because you yourselves are unable to swim in mid-channel, therefore you are cut off from the great joy of delivering your message to your fellow-men and women. Thoughts are facts; and they can pass through barriers impenetrable to human bodies. Let me help you, if I can, to understand yourselves. If you once do that, believe me, you will somehow succeed in getting the world to understand you...
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