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THE
EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

THE EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL

BY
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
AUTHOR OF
‘JIMBO,’ ‘JOHN SILENCE,’ ‘THE LISTENER,’ ETC.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1909

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something verydifferent from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streamingfrom the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe inloveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves canreach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, andmice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything,for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul; it is to live ina nutshell and to count yourself the king of infinite space; it is

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour;

it is to know not as yet that you are under sentence of life, nor petitionthat it is to be commuted into death.—Francis Thompson.

TO
ALL THOSE CHILDREN
BETWEEN THE AGES OF EIGHT AND EIGHTY
WHO LED ME TO ‘THE CRACK’;
AND HAVE SINCE JOURNEYED WITH ME THROUGH IT
INTO
THE LAND ‘BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TO-MORROW’
1

CHAPTER I

... I stand as mute
As one with full strong music in his heart
Whose fingers stray upon a shattered lute.
Alice Meynell.

All night the big liner had been plunging heavily,but towards morning she entered quieter water, andwhen the passengers woke, her rising and falling overthe great swells was so easy that eve

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