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PREFACE<br > The first part of The DoTlble Axe was written during<br >the war and finished a year before the war ended, and it<br >bears the sears; but the t)oem is not primarily concerned<br >with lhat ~4rim fohy. Its bur(len, as of some previous work<br >of mine, is to present a certain philosophical attitude,<br >whieh nli~llt he ealled Inhumanism, a shifting of emphasis<br >and siKnifieance from man ta not-man; the rejection of<br >human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman mag-<br >nilicenee. It seems time that our race began to think as<br >an adult does, rather than like an egocentric baby or<br >insane p( rson. This manner of thought and feeling is<br >neither inisanthrotde nor pessimist, though two or three<br >people have said so and may again. It involves no false-<br >hoods, and is a means of maintaining sanity in slippery<br >times; it has objective truth and hunmn value. It offers<br >a reaso,lable detachment as rule of conduct, instead of<br >love, hate and envy. It neutralizes fanaticism and wild<br >hopes; but it provides magnificence for the religious in-<br >stinct, and satisfies our need to admire greatness and re-<br >joice in beauty.<br > The shorter poems that tail the book are expressions,<br >in their different ways, of the same attitude. A few of<br >them have been printed previously; three in Poetry May-<br >azim,, one in the Unir~ersity of Ka~sas City Review, two<br >in The Sah, rday R~ z icw of Literature; several in some<br >recent anthologies.<br > As to the Publishers Note that introduces this volume,<br >let me say that it is here with my cheerful consent, and<br >represents a quite nor,hal difference of opinion. But I be-<br > xxi<br >
Jeffers Double Axe Cloth 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书