Every day I see great thoughts of great minds in their great writings, great poetry, great sonnets, great Haikus and a variety of other great contributions by great men / women at the great Ezineville... all of which can make great books. Don't we all feel so, dear Ezineers$%:
Great books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who wrote them. They are the effluence (not effluvium) of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. And literature cannot be said to have served its true propose until it has been translated into the actual life of him who reads. It does not succeed until it becomes the vehicle of the vital.
Progress is the gradual result of the unending battle between human reason and human instinct, in which the former slowly but surely wins. The most powerful engine in the battle is literature. It is the vast reservoir of true ideas and high emotions - and life is constituted of ideas and emotions. In a world deprived of literature, the intellectual and emotional activity of all but a few exceptional gifted men would quickly sink and retract to a narrow circle, a dungeon. The broad, the noble, the generous would tend to disappear for want of accessible storage.
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And life would be correspondingly degraded, because the fallacious idea and the petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas and emotions of genius. Who or what are the greatness of a genius$%: Well, the best answer I can think of is: What great men think are our own rejected thoughts presented with an alienated beauty. They fill up those gaps that we ordinarily or unconsciously do not think worthy of giving a thought.
Only by conceiving a society without literature can it be clearly realized that the function of literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks. Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely, ten thousand may afterwards live finely. It is a means of life; it concerns the living essence.
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