The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and what is not ; but others who allow them¬ selves to be led away, out of their depth, or who go just whither money-making duplicity whispers its specious and lying persuasions are moving to their doom, making mental malignant disease for themselves and others. I now wish to turn another way just a moment, for more sunning in the open. I seem to want some of the atmosphere of the free and easy, fresh and healthy ; I naturally turn in the delightful direction of a saner aestheticism. I ask my reader to walk else¬ where with me for a while, so that we may look once more upon the beautiful—after an unpleasant examination of cubes, angles, monstrosities, perversions, kinks in brain and body—in order to recover from our shudder¬ ing at the unhappy prospect of so much mad¬ ness making more. Now, as we look with clear, straightforward eye right into the face of nature, and smile our thankfulness that there is wholesome feast for us all the time in field, park, and garden, ever something to satisfy in due season, so long as we can see aright, ever changing as designed, ever con¬ tributing and fortifying, we instinctively
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