self, and Montaigne, have rested in a supreme tranquillity. Some, like Sophocles, Virgil, Shakespeare, Goethe, have passed through it, not to the serenity of a clearer faith, but to the tranquillity of the Supreme Artist, dealing with it as an element in their enlarged experience. Some, like Lucretius, Omar Khayyam, Leopardi, and in part Heine, have yielded to its fatal spell, and have "died and made no sign" after nobler or ignobler fashion. Others, to whom the world owes more, have fought and overcome, and have rested in the faith of a Divine Order which will at last assert itself, of a Divine Education, of which the existence of the enigma, as forming part of man's probation and discipline, is itself a material element. Of this victory, the writer of the Book of Job, and Tennyson, present the earliest and the latest phases. An intermediate position may be claimed, not the less poetical in essence because its outward form was not that of poetry, for the writer of Ecclesiastes as in later times for the Pensées of Pascal. INDEX. Aberglaube, 47 abiit ad plures, 179 Eschylus quoted, 161, 181, 190 always white, 188 another generation cometh, 104 Aristophanes, quoted, 106, 203 bedchamber, 203 caper-berry, 219 charming of serpents, 198 child, 200 "Christian Year," quoted, 123 Cicero, quoted, 132, 183, 200, 215 cistern, 222 cleaveth wood, 196 comforter, 138 consumes his own flesh, 140 crackling of thorns, 162 cranes of Ibycos, 203 considered in my heart, 183 dabar, 107 duty of man, 229 eateth in darkness, 153 estate, 135 Euripides, quoted, 104, 134, 137, 160, 173, 186, 208, 220, 223 Eternal Commandment, 230 evil days, 213 face to shine, 174 feedeth on wind, 110, 229, 253, 264 folding doors, 216 fountain of life, 222 full of words, 199 Gamaliel, 226 gardens and orchards, 115 gave good heed, 226 oath of God, 175 ointment, 188 Omar Khayyam, biography of, 262; over much wicked, 167, 168 over the spirit, 177 Ovid, quoted, 131, 174 Paradise Lost, quoted, 158, 265 place of judgment, 134, 212 ready to hear, 145 rebuke of the wise, 162 rich, 195 right hand, 193 right work, 139 righteous over much, 167, 168 Sacian, 151 Sanhedrin, 226 satias videndi, 245 |