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FOOTNOTES:[1]In an article published inMacmillan’s Magazine, December 1887, I dealt with the subject of Moultrie’s Poems.[2]Article on “Eton as it is,” in theAdventurer, No. 23, by “E. G. R.” (G. C. Macaulay).[3]Dr. Lyttelton, when Headmaster of Eton, substituted the cane for the birch in the Upper School.[4]From the chapter on “The Author of Ionica,” inEton under Hornby.[5]See Brinsley Richards’sSeven Years at Eton.[6]The article, unsigned, appeared in No. 23.[7]TheAdventurer, No. 20.[8]See the concluding article, “Valete Etonenses,” No. 29.[9]The incident is a good example of the way in which therealethics of diet are often overlooked, while stress is laid upon some quite minor and subordinate aspect of it.[10]I was not aware of these lines having appeared in print, until they were quoted by Sir Edward Cook in hisMore Literary Recreations, 1919. My version of them is slightly different from his; but I think my recollection is trustworthy.[11]My Days and Dreams, by Edward Carpenter, 1916.[12]The two years allowed for vegetarianism have now become forty, and all of them years of hard work.[13]“Our competitive system of industry is a vestigial institution. It is a survival from the militant ages of the past.... It is a system of cannibalism. Instead of instilling the feeling of brotherhood, it compels us to eat each other.”—Savage Survivals, by J. Howard Moore, 1916.[14]Since the above was written, Dean Inge has added his name to the illustrious list. Is it not time, by the way, that some one collected the Gloomy Dean’s golden sayings in a volume—under the title ofIngots, perhaps?[15]Article on “The Bringing of Sentient Beings into Existence,” theEthical World, May 7, 1898.[16]Pall Mall Gazette, April 28, 1888.[17]Farnham Herald, September 16, 1899.[18]Wayfarings: a Record of Adventure and Liberation in the Life of the Spirit, 1918.[19]The Academy, October 15, 1898.[20]The substance of what is here said about Francis Adams is taken from my editorial note to the revised edition of theSongs of the Army of the Night, published by Mr. A. C. Fifield, 1910.[21]De Rerum Naturâ, iii. 9-13, as translated inTreasures of Lucretius.[22]It is significant that the title of Edward Carpenter’s lines to Shelley: “To a Dead Poet,” became, in later editions ofTowards Democracy, “To One who is where the Eternal are.”[23]Sonnet to Shelley, by N. Douglas Deuchar.[24]From a letter on “Swinburne at Eton,”Times Literary Supplement, December 25, 1919.[25]The assertion made in Mr. H. M. Hyndman’sRecords of an Adventurous Life(1911) that Meredith’s vegetarianism was “almost the death of him,” and that he himself “recognized the truth,” viz. that flesh food is a necessity for those who work with mind as well as body, is directly at variance with what Meredith himself told me twenty years nearer the date of the experiment in question.[26]Here perhaps I had better say that my own work for the League, though mostly private and anonymous, was continuous during the twenty-nine years of the League’s existence; so that in describing the various aspects of the movement I am writing of what I know. The opinions expressed are, of course, only personal, as in the remarks about the war (Chap. XV).[27]Daily News, April 10, 1906.[28]Daily News, June 6, 1908.[29]The Times, December 11 and 26, 1902.[30]Then spare the rod and spoil the child.Hudibras, Part II, canto 1, 844.[31]Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson, in the House of Commons, November 1, 1912.[32]London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.[33]The Confessions of a Physician, translated by Simeon Linden, pp. 158, 159.[34]A Member of Parliament who had charge of a Sports Bill once begged us not to get the Buckhounds abolished, because, as he said, they were the great incentive to vote for the Bill.[35]See Dickens’s description, Forster’sLife of Dickens, iii. 146.[36]Some years later I was enabled, by the courtesy of the owner, to visit the top of Kinderscout on a frosty afternoon in December, when it had the appearance of a great snow-clad table-land, intersected by deep ruts, and punctuated here and there by the black masonry of the tors.[37]I have here incorporated the substance of a letter on “The Preservation of Mountain Scenery” published inThe Times, April 28, 1908.[38]North Wales Weekly News, May 15, 1908.[39]On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills.[40]Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, 1916; Watts & Co., London, 1918.[41]See the address on “War and Sublimation,” given by Dr. L. Jones, in the subsection of Psychology, at the meetings of the British Association, September 11, 1915. In war, he pointed out, impulses were noticed which apparently did not exist in peace, except in the criminal classes. Primitive tendencies never disappeared from existence; they only vanished from view by being repressed and buried in the unconscious mind.[42]Cf.Mr. Edward Garnett’sPapa’s War, and Other Satires, George Allen & Unwin, Ld., 1918.[43]“We were told that the war was to end war, but it was not: it did not and it could not.” So said Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, May 18, 1920; at which date it was no longer necessary to keep up the illusion.[44]If any doubt existed as to the national insensibility caused by the war, it must have been dispelled by the comparative indifference with which the news of the Amritsar massacre—a more terrible atrocity than any for which German commanders were responsible—was received in this country.[45]De Rerum Naturâ, iii, 847-850, as translated inTreasures of Lucretius.[46]Civilization, by George Duhamel. Translated by T. P. Conwil-Evans.[47]I heard a Derbyshire gamekeeper actually quote “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord,” as if it were an injunction to the righteous to follow the example of a vengeful Deity.[48]The Basis of Morality.Translated by Arthur Brodrick Bullock, 1903 (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.).
FOOTNOTES:
[1]In an article published inMacmillan’s Magazine, December 1887, I dealt with the subject of Moultrie’s Poems.
[1]In an article published inMacmillan’s Magazine, December 1887, I dealt with the subject of Moultrie’s Poems.
[2]Article on “Eton as it is,” in theAdventurer, No. 23, by “E. G. R.” (G. C. Macaulay).
[2]Article on “Eton as it is,” in theAdventurer, No. 23, by “E. G. R.” (G. C. Macaulay).
[3]Dr. Lyttelton, when Headmaster of Eton, substituted the cane for the birch in the Upper School.
[3]Dr. Lyttelton, when Headmaster of Eton, substituted the cane for the birch in the Upper School.
[4]From the chapter on “The Author of Ionica,” inEton under Hornby.
[4]From the chapter on “The Author of Ionica,” inEton under Hornby.
[5]See Brinsley Richards’sSeven Years at Eton.
[5]See Brinsley Richards’sSeven Years at Eton.
[6]The article, unsigned, appeared in No. 23.
[6]The article, unsigned, appeared in No. 23.
[7]TheAdventurer, No. 20.
[7]TheAdventurer, No. 20.
[8]See the concluding article, “Valete Etonenses,” No. 29.
[8]See the concluding article, “Valete Etonenses,” No. 29.
[9]The incident is a good example of the way in which therealethics of diet are often overlooked, while stress is laid upon some quite minor and subordinate aspect of it.
[9]The incident is a good example of the way in which therealethics of diet are often overlooked, while stress is laid upon some quite minor and subordinate aspect of it.
[10]I was not aware of these lines having appeared in print, until they were quoted by Sir Edward Cook in hisMore Literary Recreations, 1919. My version of them is slightly different from his; but I think my recollection is trustworthy.
[10]I was not aware of these lines having appeared in print, until they were quoted by Sir Edward Cook in hisMore Literary Recreations, 1919. My version of them is slightly different from his; but I think my recollection is trustworthy.
[11]My Days and Dreams, by Edward Carpenter, 1916.
[11]My Days and Dreams, by Edward Carpenter, 1916.
[12]The two years allowed for vegetarianism have now become forty, and all of them years of hard work.
[12]The two years allowed for vegetarianism have now become forty, and all of them years of hard work.
[13]“Our competitive system of industry is a vestigial institution. It is a survival from the militant ages of the past.... It is a system of cannibalism. Instead of instilling the feeling of brotherhood, it compels us to eat each other.”—Savage Survivals, by J. Howard Moore, 1916.
[13]“Our competitive system of industry is a vestigial institution. It is a survival from the militant ages of the past.... It is a system of cannibalism. Instead of instilling the feeling of brotherhood, it compels us to eat each other.”—Savage Survivals, by J. Howard Moore, 1916.
[14]Since the above was written, Dean Inge has added his name to the illustrious list. Is it not time, by the way, that some one collected the Gloomy Dean’s golden sayings in a volume—under the title ofIngots, perhaps?
[14]Since the above was written, Dean Inge has added his name to the illustrious list. Is it not time, by the way, that some one collected the Gloomy Dean’s golden sayings in a volume—under the title ofIngots, perhaps?
[15]Article on “The Bringing of Sentient Beings into Existence,” theEthical World, May 7, 1898.
[15]Article on “The Bringing of Sentient Beings into Existence,” theEthical World, May 7, 1898.
[16]Pall Mall Gazette, April 28, 1888.
[16]Pall Mall Gazette, April 28, 1888.
[17]Farnham Herald, September 16, 1899.
[17]Farnham Herald, September 16, 1899.
[18]Wayfarings: a Record of Adventure and Liberation in the Life of the Spirit, 1918.
[18]Wayfarings: a Record of Adventure and Liberation in the Life of the Spirit, 1918.
[19]The Academy, October 15, 1898.
[19]The Academy, October 15, 1898.
[20]The substance of what is here said about Francis Adams is taken from my editorial note to the revised edition of theSongs of the Army of the Night, published by Mr. A. C. Fifield, 1910.
[20]The substance of what is here said about Francis Adams is taken from my editorial note to the revised edition of theSongs of the Army of the Night, published by Mr. A. C. Fifield, 1910.
[21]De Rerum Naturâ, iii. 9-13, as translated inTreasures of Lucretius.
[21]De Rerum Naturâ, iii. 9-13, as translated inTreasures of Lucretius.
[22]It is significant that the title of Edward Carpenter’s lines to Shelley: “To a Dead Poet,” became, in later editions ofTowards Democracy, “To One who is where the Eternal are.”
[22]It is significant that the title of Edward Carpenter’s lines to Shelley: “To a Dead Poet,” became, in later editions ofTowards Democracy, “To One who is where the Eternal are.”
[23]Sonnet to Shelley, by N. Douglas Deuchar.
[23]Sonnet to Shelley, by N. Douglas Deuchar.
[24]From a letter on “Swinburne at Eton,”Times Literary Supplement, December 25, 1919.
[24]From a letter on “Swinburne at Eton,”Times Literary Supplement, December 25, 1919.
[25]The assertion made in Mr. H. M. Hyndman’sRecords of an Adventurous Life(1911) that Meredith’s vegetarianism was “almost the death of him,” and that he himself “recognized the truth,” viz. that flesh food is a necessity for those who work with mind as well as body, is directly at variance with what Meredith himself told me twenty years nearer the date of the experiment in question.
[25]The assertion made in Mr. H. M. Hyndman’sRecords of an Adventurous Life(1911) that Meredith’s vegetarianism was “almost the death of him,” and that he himself “recognized the truth,” viz. that flesh food is a necessity for those who work with mind as well as body, is directly at variance with what Meredith himself told me twenty years nearer the date of the experiment in question.
[26]Here perhaps I had better say that my own work for the League, though mostly private and anonymous, was continuous during the twenty-nine years of the League’s existence; so that in describing the various aspects of the movement I am writing of what I know. The opinions expressed are, of course, only personal, as in the remarks about the war (Chap. XV).
[26]Here perhaps I had better say that my own work for the League, though mostly private and anonymous, was continuous during the twenty-nine years of the League’s existence; so that in describing the various aspects of the movement I am writing of what I know. The opinions expressed are, of course, only personal, as in the remarks about the war (Chap. XV).
[27]Daily News, April 10, 1906.
[27]Daily News, April 10, 1906.
[28]Daily News, June 6, 1908.
[28]Daily News, June 6, 1908.
[29]The Times, December 11 and 26, 1902.
[29]The Times, December 11 and 26, 1902.
[30]Then spare the rod and spoil the child.Hudibras, Part II, canto 1, 844.
[30]
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.Hudibras, Part II, canto 1, 844.
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.Hudibras, Part II, canto 1, 844.
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.Hudibras, Part II, canto 1, 844.
[31]Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson, in the House of Commons, November 1, 1912.
[31]Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson, in the House of Commons, November 1, 1912.
[32]London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.
[32]London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.
[33]The Confessions of a Physician, translated by Simeon Linden, pp. 158, 159.
[33]The Confessions of a Physician, translated by Simeon Linden, pp. 158, 159.
[34]A Member of Parliament who had charge of a Sports Bill once begged us not to get the Buckhounds abolished, because, as he said, they were the great incentive to vote for the Bill.
[34]A Member of Parliament who had charge of a Sports Bill once begged us not to get the Buckhounds abolished, because, as he said, they were the great incentive to vote for the Bill.
[35]See Dickens’s description, Forster’sLife of Dickens, iii. 146.
[35]See Dickens’s description, Forster’sLife of Dickens, iii. 146.
[36]Some years later I was enabled, by the courtesy of the owner, to visit the top of Kinderscout on a frosty afternoon in December, when it had the appearance of a great snow-clad table-land, intersected by deep ruts, and punctuated here and there by the black masonry of the tors.
[36]Some years later I was enabled, by the courtesy of the owner, to visit the top of Kinderscout on a frosty afternoon in December, when it had the appearance of a great snow-clad table-land, intersected by deep ruts, and punctuated here and there by the black masonry of the tors.
[37]I have here incorporated the substance of a letter on “The Preservation of Mountain Scenery” published inThe Times, April 28, 1908.
[37]I have here incorporated the substance of a letter on “The Preservation of Mountain Scenery” published inThe Times, April 28, 1908.
[38]North Wales Weekly News, May 15, 1908.
[38]North Wales Weekly News, May 15, 1908.
[39]On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills.
[39]On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills.
[40]Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, 1916; Watts & Co., London, 1918.
[40]Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, 1916; Watts & Co., London, 1918.
[41]See the address on “War and Sublimation,” given by Dr. L. Jones, in the subsection of Psychology, at the meetings of the British Association, September 11, 1915. In war, he pointed out, impulses were noticed which apparently did not exist in peace, except in the criminal classes. Primitive tendencies never disappeared from existence; they only vanished from view by being repressed and buried in the unconscious mind.
[41]See the address on “War and Sublimation,” given by Dr. L. Jones, in the subsection of Psychology, at the meetings of the British Association, September 11, 1915. In war, he pointed out, impulses were noticed which apparently did not exist in peace, except in the criminal classes. Primitive tendencies never disappeared from existence; they only vanished from view by being repressed and buried in the unconscious mind.
[42]Cf.Mr. Edward Garnett’sPapa’s War, and Other Satires, George Allen & Unwin, Ld., 1918.
[42]Cf.Mr. Edward Garnett’sPapa’s War, and Other Satires, George Allen & Unwin, Ld., 1918.
[43]“We were told that the war was to end war, but it was not: it did not and it could not.” So said Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, May 18, 1920; at which date it was no longer necessary to keep up the illusion.
[43]“We were told that the war was to end war, but it was not: it did not and it could not.” So said Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, May 18, 1920; at which date it was no longer necessary to keep up the illusion.
[44]If any doubt existed as to the national insensibility caused by the war, it must have been dispelled by the comparative indifference with which the news of the Amritsar massacre—a more terrible atrocity than any for which German commanders were responsible—was received in this country.
[44]If any doubt existed as to the national insensibility caused by the war, it must have been dispelled by the comparative indifference with which the news of the Amritsar massacre—a more terrible atrocity than any for which German commanders were responsible—was received in this country.
[45]De Rerum Naturâ, iii, 847-850, as translated inTreasures of Lucretius.
[45]De Rerum Naturâ, iii, 847-850, as translated inTreasures of Lucretius.
[46]Civilization, by George Duhamel. Translated by T. P. Conwil-Evans.
[46]Civilization, by George Duhamel. Translated by T. P. Conwil-Evans.
[47]I heard a Derbyshire gamekeeper actually quote “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord,” as if it were an injunction to the righteous to follow the example of a vengeful Deity.
[47]I heard a Derbyshire gamekeeper actually quote “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord,” as if it were an injunction to the righteous to follow the example of a vengeful Deity.
[48]The Basis of Morality.Translated by Arthur Brodrick Bullock, 1903 (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.).
[48]The Basis of Morality.Translated by Arthur Brodrick Bullock, 1903 (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.).