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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V After the superintendent had reverently bowed his head before the Unknown God, in communion with his thoughts on human origin and destiny, he revived, in memory, the story of his personal evolution, tracing it as far back as he could, so as to meet, as it were, his inmost self, and read in the past pages of his life the destiny which probably awaited him in the future. He thought of his father, the late major of the garrison artillery, one of those indefinite t}^pes which marked the beginning of the century; a character composed of many parts, like a conglomerate; the refuse of past epochs, collected at random after the great explosion at the end of last century, and cemented together. He believed in nothing, for he had seen with his own eyes that everything passes, that everything comes again; he had seen nations trying every form of government, greeting new systems with shouts of acclamation and abolishing them in a few years' time; he had seen abolished systems resumed and lauded as epoch-making discoveries. Finally lie had clung to existing facts as the only comprehensible verities, indifferent to the question as to whether they had been called into existence by a governing will--which was improbable--or a group of accidents--which was fairly certain but unwise to affirm. A few years at the University had converted him to the pantheism of the Neo-Hegelians, a clever reverse of the philosophy which was at that time pushed to extremities: nothing was real except the individual and God was the essence of individuality in humanity. This vivid conception of the intimate union of man and nature, with man as the highest link in the chain of the world-process, attracted a group of distinguished men who secretly despised the...
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About the Author
August Stringberg was a novelist, poet, playwright, and painter, and is considered to be the father of modern Swedish literature, publishing the country s first modern novel, The Red Room, in 1879. Strindberg was prolific, penning more than 90 works including plays, novels, and non-fiction over the course of his career. However, he is best-known for his dramatic works, many of which have been met with international acclaim, including The Father, Miss Julie (Miss Julia), Creditors, and A Dream Play. Strindberg died in 1912 following a short illness, but his work continues to inspire later playwrights and authors including Tennessee Williams, Maxim Gorky, and Eugene O Neill.
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