Excerpt from Ecclesiastes and Omar Khayyam a Note for the Spiritual Temper, of Our Time

Today, however, as the words come up again, they sound not so mischievous, somehow, the breath of a wholesome spirit seems to have passed over them. And this is what has taken place. The spirit of a new and saner time is awake, and it is in its vigor that we respond to the old sage's words, hearing in them a congenial note. The conclusion they draw, in fact, is one to which the mind of our age is dimly moving, as to a sterling resting-point of faith. And for this forward movement, with its freightage of good sense and good cheer, we have the skeptics in no slight measure to thank.

What I mean may be seen illustrated in the book which just now is on every centre-table, Omar Khayyam, a book whose present popularity, after it had lain long years neglected, is a phenomenon to be reckoned with.

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