Реферат: Jospeh Freeman

Which then was going forward in her name!

Not favored spots alone, but the whole Earth

The beauty wore of promise!

The

inert

Were roused and lively natures rapt away!

Yes, everybody is swept away by the excitement of the promise, the vision of the

good life, the better world; and whoever you are, whatever your skills may be, there is

room for you in the movement of redemption and liberation. You are called upon to exercise

your skill, to help realize the vision — where? In some far off place and time? No, here,

today, now! This was as true in the Nineteen Thirties as of the days of the French

Revolution. Nowhere has this aspect of the twentieth century vision been stated with

greater precision and power than in THE PRELUDE.

Were called upon to exercise their skill

Not in Utopia—subterranean fields—

Or some seculded island, Heaven knows where!

But in the very world which is the world

Of all of us, the place where in the end

We find our happiness or not at all.

For between the vision of the Book of Revelations, as interpreted by the Middle Ages,

and the French Revolution — of which the twentieth century revolution is a direct

continuation — a tremendous change had taken place in the minds of men in regard to

history and historic time.

Men are not content to wait milennia for their redemption and liberation through

miracle; they want to work for it here and now and to achieve it step by step not in

eternity alone but first in time.

In our own time, William Butler Yeats wrote a hymn to the vision in his poem about the

Easter uprising of 1916. This was the Irish manifestation of the basic dream with the

changing name, but it was part of the universal dream which roused Mexico in 1910, China