初中晨讀英語美文摘抄

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　　：Two Ways of Thinking of History

　　There are two ways of thinking of history.

　　There is, first, history regarded as a way of looking at other things,

　　really the temporal aspect of anything,

　　from the universe to this nib with which I am writing.

　　Everything has its history.

　　There is the history of the universe,if only we knew it

　　—and we know something of it, if we do not know much.

　　Nor is the contrast so great,when you come to think of it,

　　between the universe and this pen-nib.

　　A mere pen-nib has quite a considerable history.

　　There is, to begin with, what has been written with it,

　　and that might be something quite important.

　　After all it was probably only one quill-pen or a couple that wrote Hamlet.

　　Whatever has been written with the pen-nib is part of its History.

　　In addition to that there is the history of its manufacture:

　　this particular nib is a “Relief” nib, No. 314,

　　made by R. Esterbrook and Co. in England,

　　who supply the Midland Bank with pen-nibs, from whom I got it—a gift, I may say.

　　But behind this nib there is the whole process of manufacture....

　　In fact a pen nib implies universe,and the history of it implies its history.

　　We may regard this way of looking at it—history—as the time-aspect of all things:

　　a pen-nib, the universe,the fiddle before me as I write,

　　as a relative conception of history.

　　There is, secondly, what we might call a substantive conception of history,

　　what we usually mean by it, history proper as a subject of study in itself.

　　：On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth

　　No young man believes he will ever die.

　　It was a saying of my brother’s, and a fine one.

　　There is a feeling of Eternity in youth,which makes us amend for everything.

　　To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.

　　One half of time indeed is flown

　　—the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures,

　　for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes.

　　We make the coming age our own —

　　The vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us.

　　Death, old age, are words without a meaning that pass by us

　　like the idea air which we regard not.

　　Others may have undergone,or may still be liable to them—we“bear a charmed life”,

　　which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies.

　　As in setting out on delightful journey,we strain our eager gaze forward

　　—Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!

　　And see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance.

　　So, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations,

　　nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them.

　　We have as yet found no obstacle,no disposition to flag;

　　and it seems that we can go on so forever.

　　We look round in a new world,full of life, and motion, and ceaseless progress,

　　and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it,

　　and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind

　　in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave.

　　It is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth,

　　that ***so to speak*** identifies us with nature,

　　and ***our experience being slight and our passions strong***

　　deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it.