Three modern seers / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis.

  • Edith Ellis
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Three modern seers / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mother, took that very soul of your soul out of your reach when you imagined that it was most vital to you here and now— what then ? Only those who have had to face utter and complete loneliness of body, soul, and spirit by the bedside of what looks so terribly like the end can realise how difficult it is, just then, to believe that this pain of separation has greater “ forward ends ” than any other. Hinton knew, Dante knew, all true lovers who have lost and found again after the great change of death know, that pain is first nutrition and then function. There is but one condition for peace. It is not an easy one, but it is a certain one. it is to be true to what we know and then remain receptive. Pain in this way merges, by the law of its nature, into happiness, a happiness which not only affects a single person, but a multitude. Some know that death is often the only way to the very truth and the life we
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