Essays in buff.

Date:
1903
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Credit: Essays in buff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    believeth.” The apparent falsehood con- ceals a latent truth. Faith can not re- move mountains—that requires dynamite. But conviction and enthusiasm have worked, and will yet work, wonders. The obstacles to progress which we deem insuperable are to us insuperable just because we deem them so. We toss and groan in a nightmare from which we need only to be waked. But we cannot wake, for lack of moral courage and intellectual energy. “ It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We are assured Much may be conquered, much may be endured, Of what degrades and crushes us. We know That we have power over ourselves to do And suffer, what we know not till we try, But something nobler than to live and die.” —Shelley, Julian and Maddalo.