SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1923 /U THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE!U "What is the first business of him "It is a poular error to inagne who philosophizes? To throw away that man s misfortunes are the result self conceit. For it is impossible for of his imnotely and iniquity. On the a man to begin to learn that which contrary, his wickedness is the conse- he thinks that he knows." quence of hisi misfortunes." -Epictetus. - Leopa r di. Edited by Scogan HERESY ...... trailing voice "'You know that os is older than Cronus, and mightier too. -Do you feel this silent glos about us? Eros! -Do you hear how the cricket is chirping? Eros!' At this moment two lizards, chasing each other, darted like a flash across him as he lay there. He repeated, 'Eros, Eros!' And as if he had given the command for it, two strong bucks now arose and at- tacked each other with their curved horns. He let them go, although the combat grew morg and more heated. The clash of the blows rang louder, and their number kept increasing. And again he said, 'Eros, Eros!' "And now there came to the ears of the visitor, for the first time, words that made him particularly attentive, because they shed or at least seemed to shed some light on the question as to why Ludovico was called the Heretic by the people. 'I had rather,' he said, 'worship a live he-goat or a live bull than a hanged man on a gallows. I do not live in an age that doess that. I hate, I abhor it. Jupitor Ammon was represented with ram's horns. Pan has the legs of a goat, Bacchus the horns of a bull. I mean the Bacchus Tauriformis or Tauricornis of the Romans. Hithra, the sun-god, is repre- sented as a'bult. All peoples used to revere the bull, the he-goat, the ram, and to sited their sacred blood in sacrifices. That I can understand-for the procreative power is the creative power, procreation and creation are the same thing. To be-sure, the cult of that power is no cool whimpering of monks and nuns. Once I dreamt of Sita, the wife of Vishnu, who assumed human form under the name of Rama. The priests died in her embrace. Then I knew for a moment something of all sorts of mysteries. Of the mystery of the black procreation in the green grass; of lust, colored mother of pearl; of ecstasies and torpors; of the secret of the yellow maize-kernels; of all fruits, all swellings, all colours of every kind. I could have bellowed in a frenzy of pain when I caught sight of the pitiless, all powerful Sita. I thought I should, die of desire.'" From "The Heretic of Soana." by Gerhart Hanptmann. WHY ARE WE SAD? "I have already referred to my old illustrated Bible, and to the terres- trial paradise which I admired in my wise and tender childhood, * * The. fields, beautifully drained, were divided by lines of old willows. The tree of knowledge was a mossy apple-tree. "This delighted me. But I could not understand why God had for- hidden the good Flemish Eve to taste the fruit of the tree which gave under- standing. I know now, and i am near believing that the God of my old Bible was right. That good old man, fond of gardens, doubtless said to himself: 'knowledge does not bring happiness, and when men know a lot ef history and geography they will become sad.' He was right. If, by anyw chance he is still alive, he must congratulate himself on his prescience. We have eaten of the fruits of the tree of knowledge,.and the taste of ashes is left in our mouths.*'* Whathave we done? We have tried to estimate the immemorial age of the earth, even the age of the sun, and we now reckon human life by comparison with geological periods and cosmic ages; and by this standard it is ridiculously short. Drowned in the ocean of time and space, we have realized that we are nothing, and this has depressed s. I our prile we have sought to keep silence, but we have blenched.: The greatest evil-and undoubtedly the old gardener with the long white beard in my -Bible had foreseen it-is that faith has disappeared with our happy ignorance "We have no longer any hopes, and we no longer believe in the thingsa that used to console our forefathers. This Is the most painful thing of al. It was pleasant tobelieve, even in bell." From "Why Are We Sad" In "On Life and Letters; Third Series," by Anatole France. THE CELESTIAL YIRGINS .Together with faith and hope we have lost charity; the three vrtu"e whic. like three vessels bearing at the prow the image of a celes- tial virgin, carrying poor souls across the world's ocean, have foundered in the same storm." From "Why Are We Sad" by Anatole France. APPLES "Four apples nark the four great epochs of human history-the apple of Eve (the Biblieal c!och); the apple of Paris (the Hellenic epoch);.the apple of Tell (the mediaeval eonch); the apple of Newton (the scientific. epoch)." From- "Testimoniane," by Giovanni Papsni. TO THE SE ORS When Jerks Chrisf osaid. "Bsed .are they that hunger, for they shall be fMte*d!" Jesus Christ was gambling on probabilities. Charles Henri Badelare. THE COLUTMN Conceived by a desire of the editors and born of a virgin min; edited under on'ciots effort; this column. was cut, copied and written; and after five weeks it arose again from the earth; and now sitfeth in the memories of but a few, from whence It shall come against me at the judgment of, the ! quick and the dead. - -soga. 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