《Four Years》第20章

ts　elements　multiplying　by　divisions　like　certain　low　forms　of　life；　was　all　powerful；　but　in　reality　i　had　the　wildest　hopes。　to？day　i　add　to　that　first　conviction；　to　that　first　desire　for　unity；　this　other　conviction；　long　a　mere　opinion　vaguely　or　intermittently　apprehended：　nations；　races　and　individual　men　are　unified　by　an　image；　or　bundle　of　related　images；　symbolical　or　evocative　of　the　state　of　mind；　which　is　of　all　states　of　mind　not　impossible；　the　most　difficult　to　that　man；　race　or　nation；　because　only　the　greatest　obstacle　that　can　be　contemplated　without　despair　rouses　the　will　to　full　intensity。　a　powerful　class　by　terror；　rhetoric；　and　organised　sentimentality；　may　drive　their　people　to　war；　but　the　day　draws　near　when　they　cannot　keep　them　there；　and　how　shall　they　face　the　pure　nations　of　the　east　when　the　day　es　to　do　it　with　but　equal　arms？　i　had　seen　ireland　in　my　own　time　turn　from　the　bragging　rhetoric　and　gregarious　humour　of　oconnells　generation　and　school；　and　offer　herself　to　the　solitary　and　proud　parnell　as　to　her　anti？self；　buskin　following　hard　on　sock；　and　i　had　begun　to　hope；　or　to　half？hope；　that　we　might　be　the　first　in　europe　to　seek　unity　as　deliberately　as　it　had　been　sought　by　theologian；　poet；　sculptor；　architect　from　the　eleventh　to　the　thirteenth　century。　doubtless　we　must　seek　it　differently；　no　longer　considering　it　convenient　to　epitomise　all　human　knowledge；　but　find　it　we　well　might；　could　we　first　find　philosophy　and　a　little　passion。
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Four　YearsXXIII
；小；说；〃；网
it　was　the　death　of　parnell　that　convinced　me　that　the　moment　had　e　for　work　in　ireland；　for　i　knew　that　for　a　time　the　imagination　of　young　men　would　turn　from　politics。　there　was　a　little　irish　patriotic　society　of　young　people；　clerks；　shop？boys；　shop？girls；　and　the　like；　called　the　southwark　irish　literary　society。　it　had　ceased　to　meet　because　each　member　of　the　mittee　had　lectured　so　many　times　that　the　girls　got　the　giggles　whenever　he　stood　up。　i　invited　the　mittee　to　my　fathers　house　at　bedford　park　and　there　proposed　a　new　organisation。　after　a　few　months　spent　in　founding；　with　the　help　of　t。　w。　rolleston；　who　came　to　that　first　meeting　and　had　a　knowledge　of　mittee　work　i　lacked；　the　irish　literary　society；　which　soon　included　every　london　irish　author　and　journalist；　i　went　to　dublin　and　founded　there　a　similar　society。
w。　b。　yeats。
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