Hiero-Salem; The Vision of Peace, a Fiction Founded on Ideals Which Are Grounded in the Real, That Is Greater Than the Greatest of All Human Great Ideals (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1889 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. COLUMNAR HUMANITY. Eloiheem is getting as queer as the rest of them," one man said of Robert. For hitherto Robert's likeness to the strong-willed, self-contained, yet seemingly frank and outspoken Althea had carried him along nearly as free of public comment as is the average man who does as he chooses in these days. Like these men, Robert had plenty of money, and "asked for nothing but what he paid for," while he minded his own business, and left others to do the same, as self-controlled and externally placid he went his way, polite and sufficiently reserved in manners, and, on the whole, well liked, as successful, unobtrusive, well-dressed, well-mannered men are liked by others like themselves in these particulars. To be sure, men did not understand Robert: but, then, not all men make it a point to understand one another, seeing that not all take the trouble to thoroughly understand themselves. But Robert had been born and bred with a man who had nothing better to do than to try to understand those who were greater than he, and to comprehend those who were less than he in mental and spiritual development. So Robert had gone through the world, looking forth from under black brows with something of solemn comprehension of the wild whirl of hurrying faces that passed him like cloud-forms driven before the tempest. He had been something of a kindly, though fitful helper, of one and another of this whirling multitude with which traffic, want, and pleasure-seeking fill city streets. In fact, he had, in a way, taken up Daniel's manner of dealing with people while having a very insufficient hold on Daniel's reason for thus dealing. For, it is one thing to be a man who realizes that he but throws an occasional bone to a hungry dog who is to die, and i...