Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . isthe story of Jack and Jill. But this story,coming to us from the primitive past, is fullof a deep philosophy. In fact, it is anethical world-drama in five acts, as can readilybe seen. ACT I Jack and Jill went up the hillTo fetch a pail of water. act nJack fell down and broke his crown. act m And Jill came tumbling after. act rvUp Jack got and home did trot,As fast as he could caper. act vDame Jill had the job to plaster his knobWith vinegar and brown paper. This is a tragical-comical-pastoral inwhich the first movement, as usual, portraysthe wro
Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . isthe story of Jack and Jill. But this story,coming to us from the primitive past, is fullof a deep philosophy. In fact, it is anethical world-drama in five acts, as can readilybe seen. ACT I Jack and Jill went up the hillTo fetch a pail of water. act nJack fell down and broke his crown. act m And Jill came tumbling after. act rvUp Jack got and home did trot,As fast as he could caper. act vDame Jill had the job to plaster his knobWith vinegar and brown paper. This is a tragical-comical-pastoral inwhich the first movement, as usual, portraysthe wrong, the violation, which in this caseis likely a disruption in the family. We maycall the first movement the Conflict. Andthe second movement, consisting as it doesof the Return and the Mediation, is theremedial activity closing up the breach in thecraniological world, thus foreshadowing theethical readjustment of the domestic serenityof the hero and heroine. The first threadof the first movement, beginning simultan- OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. A View in the State Hospital Park eusly with the hill-climbing, twines and inter-twines itself about the unsuspecting masculinebucolic. As a result he falls, and when hefalls, he falls, unlike Lucifer, to rise addition to this twining, the first threadintertwines with the second thread of thefirst movement. This action and interactionconstitute the primordial cataclysm of an at-tenuated Nemesis. Herein is illustratedNatures insistence on mans docility to theprimary facts of his subliminal consciousness;for why did they go up the hill when waterwill run down hill, if it is given but halfa chance? After the instinctive feeling ofthe reader for justice has been satisfied, andbefore melancholia has fixed its fangs in em-bosoms, the Tragic yields to the irresistiblycomic; for, lo! Jill, the uncompromisinglysedate Jill, comes tumbling after with pictur-esque gyrations and genuflections. And this,making the third thread of the first move
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