Questions of our day / Havelock Ellis.

  • Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: Questions of our day / Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUESTIONS OF OUR DAY never seems to understand that it is foolish to attempt to estimate the age in which we ourselves live. We can never do that because we can never get outside to look at it. Not till it is past may any age of the world orb into the perfect star we saw not when we moved therein. Yet it is a necessary imbecility. Without it the men of genius would have remained among the herd born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. If they had not been burnt and seared by hot irons they would never have been spurred to victory in the race which all may run and few may win. It is all part of the Divine Comedy to which Dante, on the threshold of our world, gave its supreme symbolic shape. It is along a road from misery and despair that the summits of glory are reached. 180