Henceforward, Then, Instead Of Saying That A Man Is Hard Up, Let Us
Say That His Organisation Is At A Low Ebb, Or, If We Wish Him Well,
Let Us Hope That He Will Grow Plenty Of Limbs.
It must be remembered
that we are dealing with physical organisations only.
We do not say
that the thousand-horse man is better than a one-horse man, we only
say that he is more highly organised and should be recognised as
being so by the scientific leaders of the period. A man's will,
truth, endurance, are part of him also, and may, as in the case of
the late Mr. Cobden, have in themselves a power equivalent to all the
horse-power which they can influence; but were we to go into this
part of the question we should never have done, and we are compelled
reluctantly to leave our dream in its present fragmentary condition.
A NOTE ON "THE TEMPEST"
Act III, Scene I
The following brief essay was contributed by Butler to a small
miscellany entitled LITERARY FOUNDLINGS: VERSE AND PROSE, COLLECTED
IN CANTERBURY, N.Z., which was published at Christ Church on the
occasion of a bazaar held there in March, 1864, in aid of the funds
of the Christ Church Orphan Asylum, and offered for sale during the
progress of the bazaar. The miscellany consisted entirely of the
productions of Canterbury writers, and among the contributors were
Dean Jacobs, Canon Cottrell, and James Edward FitzGerald, the founder
of the PRESS.
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