LEARN HOW TO DIE

portais of mortal life the l^end " Abandon hope, ail ye that enter hère " !

To die — for this into the world you came.

Yes, to abandon more than you ever oonceived as possible ;

AU ideals, plans — even the very best and most nnselfish — ^all hopes and desires,

AU formulas of morality, ail réputation for virtue or oonsistency or good sensé; aU cherished théories, doctrines, Systems of knowledge.

Modes of life, habits, prédilections, préférences, superiorities, weaknesses, indulgences,

Good healih, wholeness of limb and brain, youth, manhood, âge — nay Ufe itself — ^in one word : To die, —

For this into the world you came.

AU to be abandoned, and when they hâve been finaUy abandoned,

Then to retum to be used — and then only to be rightly used, to be free and open for ever.^

This habit of abandonment he caUs the Path of Indifférence. It is a characteristic thought, and finds its fuUest expression in that very wise and entirely convincing poem entitled " Hâve Faith."

The sportsman does not say, I will start a hare at tho corner of this ûeld, or I wiU shoot a turkey-buzzard at the f oot of that tree ;

But he stands indiffèrent and waits on emergency, and so makes hunself master of it.^

Such Indifférence is as far removed from laissezfaire on the one hand as it is from anxiety on the

1 r, D., p. 353. « Ihid,, p. 17a.