Impressions and comments / Havelock Ellis.

  • Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
Date:
1926
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Credit: Impressions and comments / Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    206 IMPRESSIONS AND COMIMENTS before Religion, and that all the patient study which men devoted to the Revelation that seemed to them held in the Text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the Text of Men and Women, of whom all the Bibles that ever were merely contain the excretions. It is indeed exactly on that account that we cannot study Bibles too devoutly. So before each New Person let us ejaculate internally that profound and memorable saying: I study you as I study the Bible. September 18.—The approach to the compre¬ hension of any original personahty, in art or in philosophy, is slow but full of fascination. One's first impulse, I have usually found, is one of tedious indifference, followed by rejec¬ tion, probably accompanied with repugnance. In this sphere the door which opens at a touch may onl} lead into a hovel. The portal to a glorious temple may be through a dark and dreary narthex, to be traversed painfully, it may be on one's knees, a passage only illumin¬ ated in its last stages by exhilarating bursts of light as the door ahead momentarily swings open.