| Title | : | The Hampdenshire Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | J.D. Beresford |
| Release | : | 2021-04-12 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books |
| Size | : | 854996 |
| "I could not say at which station the woman and her baby entered the train. Since we had left London I had been engrossed in Henri Bergson’s “Time and Free Will,” as it is called in the English translation. I had been conscious of various stoppages and changes of passengers, but my attention had been held by Bergson’s argument. I agreed with his conclusion in advance, but I wished to master his reasoning. I looked up when the woman entered my compartment, though I did not notice the name of the station. I caught sight of the baby she was carrying, and turned back to my book. I thought the child was a freak, an abnormality; and such things disgust me. I returned to the study of my Bergson and read: “It is at the great and solemn crisis, decisive of our reputation with others, that we choose in defiance of what is conventionally called a motive, and this absence of any tangible reason is the more striking the deeper our freedom goes.” " |
