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Show .. 139· The drama of it is natIonal and pessimism; pessimism a of not of decline, Is there not is to much of an of failure, of no century exhausted that which and of Ireland known that deny has people a are new spirit, worth looking after and of the many none is more dramatists right," Vanities, those dark 8,11 s as well to recognise back vanity," corners of the a the phrase, there now on spritual libert7 even say as twenty-five years bodies the as their and of a souls; a new striking manifestations of this indicative fall to t things of health than ruthless way in which these decline refuse to Grattan's self-respect is arising truer less, remorseless, a Home over come realized that to be beginning And courage. dared have not on quarter of a has In say and intellectual, they would is and literature for great change a forth." Men gone of moral, is instincts? strength? Surely present-day life has who man can It ago. sign a question in the affirmative and point Ireland's spirit behalf Is hard, awful, evil, problematical--which country during the past few,aars. "The that strength. illustration. Whatever'may be his opinion Rule, and but is point a pessimism--an intellectual predilection a answer may the called somewhere, necessarily pessimism of exuberant health one but is, weakness, of decay, or it so asks lUetszche pessimism, for what drama of Ireland has been on and that the "all that Preacher's insist land where on the fear powerful is, is "Vanity of illuminating ignorance and super- |
