An autobiography of earth
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Dream of peace on earth is strongly rooted A in the human heart, but it was not in the mind of the architect when he planned the theater of the world, nor of the director when he cast the players for their several roles. The original plan that ter- restrial history shall unfold with turmoil has never suffered any significant alteration. The dead earth over which the pageant of life has streamed these many eons is dead only to the eye that does not see it as it really is. Through the ages conflict has marked the sojourn not only of plants and animals, but also of the clod beneath them. Man does not normally sense the war that rages beyond the walls of his ego. When he turns to the night sky full of stars, to the mountains ranging quiet and vast against the horizon, he is filled as likely as not with serenity. Poets sing endlessly of peace in woodland glades, of tranquillity in the slow moving river, of such satisfactions in the world of nature as their own world has denied them. But nature, alas, is as troubled as the human soul. The 3 4 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EARTH emotional chemistry that enables men to discover in her agitated heart surcease from their own agitations is a blessing sprung from other seed than reason. Yet it need not be despised by those who go abroad with a more critical eye. The human mind has many compartments, and the calm that comes from contemplation of beauty need not be destroyed by a knowledge of that which lies deeper than beauty. And despite a certain damage to the pride- ful ego, there is something salutary in knowing that the drama of human life is but an infinitesimal frag- ment of the drama of the universe. Men may forget the pounding in their hearts when they listen to the throbbing of nature. Since a very early age in human affairs there have been those who have regarded the earth not solely as a spectacle of beauty to ease the torments of living} not casually as a mere abode j not merely as a mirror wherein they may see the reflection of their own moods j but as a drama written in a for- eign tongue and challenging an attempt at transla- tion. The earth like all else in nature has written its own history, a dramatic story whose major themes are already known through the collaborative efforts of many translators. Out of the mists that shroud the earlier thought of the human mind have come ideas about the earth
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