Under the trees . \j^-^.. A/ljf^y?;? problems. The mind of a Shakespearemust often, forsaking the busy world ofactuality, meditate in the twilight whichseems to release the soul of things seen,and, veiling the actual, reveal the realitiesof existence. Revery becomes of the highest impor-tance when it substitutes for definite think-ing that deep and silent meditation in whichalone the soul comes to know itself andpierces the wonderful movement of thingsabout it to its source and principle. Oneof Amiels magical phrases is that in whichhe describes revery as the Sunday of thesoul. Toil over, care
Under the trees . \j^-^.. A/ljf^y?;? problems. The mind of a Shakespearemust often, forsaking the busy world ofactuality, meditate in the twilight whichseems to release the soul of things seen,and, veiling the actual, reveal the realitiesof existence. Revery becomes of the highest impor-tance when it substitutes for definite think-ing that deep and silent meditation in whichalone the soul comes to know itself andpierces the wonderful movement of thingsabout it to its source and principle. Oneof Amiels magical phrases is that in whichhe describes revery as the Sunday of thesoul. Toil over, care banished, the worldforgotten, one communes with that whichis eternal. In the long course of centuriesthe forests are as short-lived as the flowers;all visible forms are but momentary ex-pressions of the creative force. In the workof the greatest mind all spoken and writtenthoughts are but partial and passing utter-ances of a life of whose volume and move-ment they afford only half-comprehendedhints. After a Shakespeare h
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