[24]. These dates have shifted now by two or three weeks owing to the equinoctial precession.
[25]. The date of his birth was not fixed till A. D. 531—when it was computed by a monkish astrologer.
[26]. Note especially the ordeals through which the youth of so many savage races have had to pass before being admitted to manhood.
WORKS OF
Edwd Carpenter
Except love build the house they labor in vain who build it.
Towards Democracy
A masterpiece, the work of a seer. Gifted as poet and philosopher, the author has given us one of the great, if not the greatest, work of the nineteenth century. It is full of vivid pictures of the soul’s enlightenment. Its perusal gives the reader a realization of the divine in man—“the divine life which incloses and redeems all souls.” Through this life every soul finds itself akin to every other soul; brotherhood is more than a myth and democracy ceases to be a dead letter.