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    The Hero in Man
    The Hero in Man
    The Hero in Man
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    The Hero in Man

    By A.E.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Hero in Man - A.E.

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hero in Man, by A.E.

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      Title: The Hero in Man

      Author: A.E.

      Release Date: August 31, 2011 [EBook #36912]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HERO IN MAN ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      The Orpheus Series                                  No. 1

      THE

      HERO IN MAN

      BY

      A. E.

      [Transcriber's note: A.E. is a pseudonym of George William Russell]

      The Orpheus Press, 1910

      First Edition (1,000 copies), May, 1909.

      Second Edition (1,000 copies), September, 1910.

      PRELUDE.

      [Greek: lampadia echontes diadôsousin allêlois.]—PLATO.

      We who live in the great cities could not altogether avoid, even if we would, a certain association with the interests of our time. Wherever we go the minds of men are feverishly debating some new political measure or some new scheme for the reconstruction of society. Now, as in olden times, the rumours of an impending war will engulf the subtler interests of men, and unless we are willing to forego all intercourse we find ourselves involved in a hundred sympathies. A friendly group will gather one evening and open their thoughts concerning the experiences of the soul; they will often declare that only these matters are of profound interest, and yet on the morrow the most of them regard the enthusiasms of the mind as far away, unpractical, not of immediate account. But even at noon the stars are above us and because a man in material difficulties cannot evoke the highest experiences that he has known they have not become less real. They pertain to his immortal nature and if in the circumstance of life he loses memory of them it is because he is likewise mortal. In the measure that we develop our interior selves philosophy becomes the most permanent of our interests and it may well be that the whole aim of Man is to acquire an unbroken and ever-broadening realisation of the Supreme Spirit so that in a far-off day he may become the master of all imaginable conditions. He, therefore, who brings us back to our central selves and shows us that however far we may wander it is these high thoughts which are truly the most real—he is of all men our greatest benefactor.

      Now those who thus care for the spiritual aspect of life are of two kinds,—the intellectual and

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