Hugh Walpole

There it is, the first real children's classic since Alice.

Hugh Walpole.

End of Dramatis Personae, an introduction.

Chapter 1 of The Story of Dr. Dolittle.

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above all however it is the christ who makes it possible for us to face the hard and apparently cruel places in life without despair and hopelessness behind all the crude and terrible theories of the atonement which still haunt us in many well-known hymns i believe there is eternal truth the truth that life comes through death through sacrifice and self-giving the truth of christ's eternal paradox he who would save his life shall lose it and he who would lose his life for my sake and the gospel's the same shall save it that is to say whoever lives for himself alone never really lives at all while he who gives his life away for others discovers the secret of true living through the perfect atonement of god and man in the christ all humanity is lifted nearer to the divine and freed from its bondage to the material if all this is true then the god of nature is not so different after all from the god revealed to us by christ in nature we see all life feeding upon other life all creatures giving their lives that others may live in nature this is involuntary but man has been given the awful responsibility of being free to choose in some measure whether his life shall be lived for the sake of his own little self or for the sake of god and his fellow men god saw no other way for free-willed human beings to find and fulfil themselves than the way of hardship struggle and difficulty the saints have told us over and over again that the two most paralysing failings of our human nature are sloth and pride if we are honest with ourselves we all know that as soon as things become easy and soft for us or as soon as we become successful and popular we deteriorate but because god is love he could not stand aside and look on at this struggling and striving of humanity so full of suffering bewilderment and apparent defeat and so he came and still comes to share the fight and the suffering with us the workman laboring day by day in the carpenter's shop at nazareth is the eternal symbol of god in us the figure hanging dying on the tree with arms outstretched to all the world is the eternal symbol of the wondrous fact that there is a cross in the heart of god and that the way of the cross is the way of life because it is the way of love chapter chapter twelve of my religion chapter twelve summary by sir arthur conan doyle mr arnold bennett's chapter which begins this book defined his position in a number of negatives he does not believe in any actual dogma of the churches and he includes immortality of the soul in his disbelief one cannot but admire the unflinching mental honesty of his declaration and also the absence of any bitterness towards those whose views may differ from his own but he is all negative and i would put it to him that man cannot live on negatives alone he must have some positive guidance and assurance if he is to have a tranquil heart in the presence of those mists which drape him in and that worldly extinction which is the only absolutely certain thing in his future a man may run for a time possibly for a lifetime upon that which he has learned when young as a motor may run onwards when the engine has been shut off but some motive power somewhere is needed if he is not to relapse into the animal i have a great sympathy with bennett's position it was my own until i learned that agnosticism is not a terminus but only a junction where you change on to another line leaving your packet of faith behind but picking up a packet of fact in exchange the same evolution may well occur to the quick brain and inquiring mind of arnold bennett he says after giving his views further than this i do not go cannot go and do not wish to go i cannot take those last words seriously if those of us who have gone further have found peace and happiness in doing so surely he would not deliberately refuse such comfort i trust the day may come when he will look into these psychic matters not superficially but with that thoroughness which they deserve and need then a strong new prophet may arise in israel mr hugh walpole followed mr arnold bennett his chapter was also distinguished for an earnest broad-mindedness but he was not so positive in his negatives as mr arnold bennett he was unorthodox but in gentler and vaguer fashion one general remark he made which was true and worth preserving he said that most of us went through three clear stages of religious thought that of the religion of childhood that of the reaction which brings disillusion and negation and finally that of the philosophy which we find for ourselves that was a helpful generalization and indeed its working is apparent in the case of each of these writers with the exception of the roman catholic personally i do not think that it would be true of a spiritualist because a belief which is reasoned from facts cannot be radically altered My own children have, of course, been brought up as spiritualists, and I would be very surprised to learn that they have ever to traverse those deserts of doubt which their father trod before them.

Beyond the impression of a kindly philosophic mind, I do not see that Mr. Walpole is in a position to bring help to anyone else.

The same may be said of Miss Rebecca West.

in fact this book is a work of genius and as always with works of genius it is difficult to analyze the elements that have gone to make it there is poetry here and fantasy and humor a little pathos but above all a number of creations in whose existence everybody must believe whether they be children of four or old men of ninety or prosperous bankers of forty-five i don't know how mr lofting has done it i don't suppose that he knows himself There it is, the first real children's classic since Alice.

Hugh Walpole.

End of Dramatis Personae and Introduction

CHAPTER I PUDDLEBY once upon a time many years ago when our grandfathers were little children there was a doctor and his name was doolittle john doolittle m d m d means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot he lived in a little town called puddleby on the marsh all the folks young and old knew him well by sight and whenever he walked down the street in his high hat every one would say

And I don't think this was done at all in a disingenuous way, but it is just part of it.

You're buying into one person's recommendations in a very similar way to the book societies and book of the month clubs that proliferated in the 1930s, 40s, where you'd have a panel of Well-known people like the Book Society had Hugh Walpole and Rose McCall.

No,

Rose McCall, you might have turned it down.

I don't suppose that he knows himself." There it is, the first real children's classic since Alice.

Hugh Walpole.

End of Dramatis Personae and Introduction

CHAPTER I PUDDLEBY once upon a time many years ago when our grandfathers were little children there was a doctor and his name was doolittle john doolittle m d m d means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot he lived in a little town called puddleby on the marsh all the folks young and old knew him well by sight and whenever he walked down the street in his high hat every one would say

I don't suppose that he knows himself." There it is, the first real children's classic since Alice.

Hugh Walpole.

End of Dramatis Personae and Introduction

CHAPTER I PUDDLEBY once upon a time many years ago when our grandfathers were little children there was a doctor and his name was doolittle john doolittle m d m d means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot he lived in a little town called puddleby on the marsh all the folks young and old knew him well by sight and whenever he walked down the street in his high hat every one would say