Excerpt from The Faith of Richard Jefferies

Nor was this maturer belief, as some have supposed, a pessimistic one, though his Story is full of a pathetic distrust of the hopes of the past and the present. A pessimist as regards the past, he was yet an optimist as regards the future. Full well aware, he says, that all has failed, yet, side by side with the sadness of that know ledge, there lives on in me an unquenchable belief that there is yet something to be found, something real, some thing to give each separate personality sunshine and ¿owers in its own existence now.

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