The New Death (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The New Death Us into this novel realization of its im portance. If the European harvest hacl reaped old men, however many, rather than young, the challenge for explanation would not have been so stinging. Concerning the extinction of the old, we should have felt as we do about the sequence of blossom, fruitage, decay, and seed - always seed. We should have had the reassurance of an ordered economy perceived as rational: the old, dying, had had their opportunity, had served their purpose. For their passing, we should not have had to remake our think ing; we should have grieved a little and gone on about our business. The only way in which death could exact from us its due consideration was to break our hearts with pity and bafile our brains with wastage. It may be that the enigma of the youth of the world destroyed is insoluble, but the New Death, this unprecedented readiness at last to look into the unseen, is the effort of popular thought to translate pity into mo tive, and bewildering waste into a recon structed relationship to Spiritual values. Not alone by the youth of its victims has. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.