W. H. D. Rouse
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first heard Aug 2026
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it is probably useless as far as education is concerned but it ought to be an interesting experience and he may pick up a little polish gissing may make friends with some influential dogs who will be of help to him in future life who knows
it is expensive we admit but since we paid nothing for him in the first place and have used him liberally for copy we feel that we owe gissing this opportunity to improve himself at any rate he has promised to write us a letter from time to time and we shall see how he gets on part three
part four of a christmas miscellany twenty twenty three by various authors part four a christmas card from the powder of sympathy by christopher morley as the christmas season approaches it sits heavily upon our mind that there are some to whom we should like to say a word of respectful admiration first of these is woodrow wilson
this you may think is a gesture both irrelevant and impertinent on our part we cannot help it we feel as the friends say a concern the conjunction of the christmas month the conference on limitation of armaments the hopes and memories of all honest men mr wilson's coming birthday
makes the occasion irresistible there are some things that must be said woodrow wilson has found the peace he sought never before perhaps did a public man enjoy such posthumous privilege in his own lifetime he has joined in melville's noble phrase the choice hidden handful of the divine
this phrase requires scrutiny the divinity is not ascribed to mr wilson but to inertia silence thought withdraw from the maddening struggles of mankind these are divine these are godlike
if there were ever any doubt as to his having qualities of true greatness consider the patience and decency of his present silence it is a silence one feels not of bitterness but of honourable dignity sometimes tucked away in the papers one finds a single line or so
that gives us more to ponder than all the rest of the day's news such an item was the following quoted lately by mr tumulty as having been said by mr wilson to one of his advisers at the paris conference monsieur clemenceau called me a pro-german and abruptly left the room
they said this man was impatient and stubborn yet he endured insult calmly in the pursuit of his strangely hoped-for peace the post armistice career of mr wilson has been called a tragedy we do not see it so the paris conference it is easy to see it now was foredoomed to a certain measure of failure
on sand one puts up a tent not a house moreover in so far as that conference is concerned mr wilson has suffered a double fatality he has never spoken candidly for himself he has been unfortunate in those who have spoken for him it has been the habit of those naive and loyally affectionate souls who have been closest to him to assure us of his subtlety and quicksilver craft
we cannot see it he has seemed to us always a man of genuine simplicity what would have been called at one time a righteous man it is an odd thing that when you say a character is rooted in simplicity and piety some will conclude that you are sneering his character is a great character
those influences which shake and unsettle men's fibre more than anything else it has endured in full measure adulation and hatred the anger and mockery which were lavished upon wilson are interesting to contemplate but so far as one can see they did not trouble that stubborn zeal
there was a cromwellian grimness and singleness of heart in his battle with europe you remember what cromwell said if carlyle can be trusted as a reporter would we have peace without a worm lay we foundations of justice and righteousness
for that he struggled burdening himself beyond human strength for that he compromised as all men do for that he incurred the malice of all aspirants both the pure and the impure it is amazing to remember the power and depth of that malice in a perverse way it is almost encouraging to remember it
it proves so excellently that this earth is still the fallen star the cindered eden in which merely human failings incur more than human angers what a gruesome life that of politics must be and yet when in our recent history were more positive virtues and high-minded hopes brought into the muddled ferment of national politics
do you remember how this man lay at death's door for many silent months and how ill suppressed were the satisfaction and the sneer what was his crime we used to wonder only that he had believed the world was ripe for some strokes of simplicity and unselfishness
little by little the minds of fair-hearted men are returning to realization and gratitude there is nothing now accomplished or even accomplishable in matters of international dealing that woodrow wilson was not fighting for three years ago the granolithic minds of the old stand patters and the luxurious sniffs of young hot doctrinaires formed for a while a quaint partnership of scorn
nor would we ourselves deny that there were many things to lament but the world still waits for a competent understanding and judicial expression of woodrow wilson's service to men it was not a perfect service for it was marred by necessary mortal blunders and qualms
for that perhaps we reverence it the more and when the just tribute comes perhaps it will come from the hand of some great writer to whom the pluralities of partisan quabble fade into their deserved shadow to whom the humour and the pathos will be evident and most evident of all the dignity and austerity of a great human hope
frustrated and postponed but an addition to the honor of the race perhaps it will come from the hand of some great dramatist with the dramatist's art that can revive great figures great moments can purge the occasion of what was merely peevish and fortuitous and remind us of truths and visions we lost in the early burly of the time
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