Excerpt from From the Hidden Way: Being Seventy-Five Adaptations in Verse But, in truth, the feature that repels, and troubles us, is not SO much that the thoughts of these men were feeble as that their beliefs were firm.' The springtide awakens loveliness and human joy therewith, true love ennobles the lover, and death is a terrific adventuring into the dark; such was their Simple credo: and their belief in its tenets was unquestioning. Now, it is perhaps more subtle to consider spring as a meteorological phenom enon, love as an ingenious device for perpetuating the species, and death as a logical progression toward higher spheres of activity; yet each may be a miracle, for all that; and not to see its wonder any longer may quite con ceivably be loss rather than gain. Ophthalmia is at the best an infirm basis whereon to assume airs of superi ority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.