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Excerpt from Olympus and Fuji Yama: A Study in Transcendental History
Every beautiful thing in the world preaches the same lesson. The lost Eden for a little time we think we may find it here, and then the fair human creature we loved because of something other than human that was there be comes altogether human; we realize our ideal in words or in marble or on canvas and our ideal inspires no longer; sooner or later is born the sorrowful knowledge that all that is divine in our existence is but a memory or a fore shadowing. Seek not your happiness here, nor in love, nor in life, it all seems to say: I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and Lo, I must die.
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