Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — GEMS FROM VICTOR HUGO [ARTICLE]

GEMS FROM VICTOR HUGO

There is always a pain attached to every pleasure. To bear eternal burdens is not the destiny of man. .*/• Crime is flattered by having virtue preside over it Childhood is so ineffable that one may unite all affection uponlt Often those terrible belligerents trample our vere souls in their mad conflict w If God meant man to go backward, he would have placed an eye in the back of his head. During the battle let us be the enemy of our enemies, and after the victory their brothers. ' <2 •- Nature in her immensity has a double meaning which dazzles great minds and blinds savage souls. The most sublime psalm that can be heard on earth is the lisping of a human soul from the lips of childhood. > What ■'’battle ground is the soul of man! We are given up to those gods, those masters, those giants—our thoughts. A good action might sometimes be an evil. He who saves the wt)lf kills the sheep. He who sets the vulture’s wing is responsible for his talons. What can one not pardon in a child? The innocence of his age makes one forget the crime of race; the feebleness of the creature chuses one to overlook the exaggeration of rank.