THE PHILOSOPHY OF STRINDBERG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15375, 9 August 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE PHILOSOPHY OF STRINDBERG.

"The restlessness of genius is a sore trial to mediocrity. , '

:-.,:'." The masses who mock and praise so ! easily, W who ~■ crucify ; and raise V idols with .the same; hattc, seldom recognise their real friends." _'*' * :A ;;; - : ~ f

/'The mysterious inter-relation between whole-hearted prayer and i;: the dormant powers i>i within ourselves is seldom understood." ; '\ l. : t;-'.'.' , y--'X-XX. '•-:<' •:;..'•■-.''. "i'\i-. '■":■;

.''The man of the world does not only keep religion and business! in watertight compartments; "- r he keeps dreams for the night and; poetical recollections for important occasions, such as weddings and funerals." 'S': : ':- ; ; • ~': -

■» To love a child is for a man to become woman it is to lay aside the manly, to experience the sexless love of the dwellers in: heaven." • " -';-.-

There are several reasoias why -woman is depicted as a sphinx by man. She is incomprehensible because her soul is rudimentary, and she thinks with her body. Her judgments are dictated by interest and passions she draws conclusions according ,tO the state of the weather and the phases of the moon." "The objects and trials of old age are to adjust accounts, to finish up unsettled affairs, to see through the cheat, of life, and to become weary of the incomplete so that no backward longings may disturb the repose of the grave.' "Pray, but work; suffer, but hope;» keeping both the earth and the stars in view. Do not try to settle permanently, for it is a place of pilgrimage; not a but a halting place. Seek truth, for it is to be found, but only in one place, with Him who Himself is the way, the truth and the life."

"The destinies of men are obscure, therefore one should be extremely careful in judging." " There are words which can murder." " To drag all one's by-gone filial with one in memory cannot be favourable to a new life of purity." "Life is cynical since it ridicules our nobler feelings and flings scorn on our faith."