Etidorhpa – The Drunkard’s Voice
Then I noticed a medley of sounds seemingly rising out of the depths beyond us. The noise was not such as to lead me to infer that persons were speaking coherently, but rather resembled a jargon such as might come from a multitude of persons talking indiscriminately and aimlessly. It was a constant volley, now rising and now falling in intensity, as though many persons regardless of one another were chanting different tunes in that...
Etidorhpa – The Drinks of Man
” Intemperance has been the vice of every people, and is prevalent in all climes, notwithstanding that intoxicants, properly employed, may serve humanity’s highest aims. Beginning early in the history of a people, the disease increases with the growth of a nation, until, at last, unless the knife is used, civilization perishes. A lowly people becomes more depraved as the use of liquor increases; a cultivated people passes...
Etidorhpa – Men are as Parasites on the Roof of the Earth
[postpic=center]99993[/postpic] I realized again, as I had so many times before, that it was useless for me to rebel. ” The self-imposed mystery of a sacrificed life lies before me,” I murmured, ” and there is no chance to retrace my footsteps. The ‘Beyond’ of the course that I have voluntarily selected, and sworn to follow, is hidden; I must nerve myself to pursue it to the bitter end, and so help me...
Etidorhpa – I Cease to Breathe, and Yet Live
During this conversation we had been rapidly walking, or I should better say advancing, for we no longer walked as men do, but skipped down into the earth, down, ever downward. There were long periods of silence, in which I was engaged in meditating over the problems that successively demanded solution, and even had I desired to do so I could have kept no record of time; days, or even weeks, may have been consumed in this journey....
Etidorhpa – Communing with Angels
” This is incredible,” I exclaimed. ” You need not be astonished,” he answered. ” Is there any argument that can be offered to controvert the assertion that man is ignorant of many natural laws?” ” I can offer none.” ” Is there any doubt that a force, distinct and separate from matter, influences matter and vivifies it into a living personality?” ” I do not deny that...