Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — A Dark View of Life. [ARTICLE]

A Dark View of Life.

“However meager our knowledge of the life to come, this one we understand, this we know—better perhaps than we wish we did. I remember to have heard Dr. Holmes sag: ‘Outside I laugh. Inside I never laugh. The World is too sad. How can the Creator bear the hum of Its misery forever in his ears? Oh, the poor women!* he added, with tears starting down his cheeks. “When all is said, this Is our own case. Outside we laugh. Inside we cannot laugh. The world at its best Is too sad, and at its worst it is too ‘bad and mad' for any but a superficial mind to take a comforting view of It It was by way of this admitted fact that Longfellow once said, *No truly Sensitive person can ever be perfectly well.' In a state of being like thia that la probably true.”—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Harper’s Bazar.