Ajax Defied the Lightning (Classic Reprint) / Leon Forrest Douglass
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Ajax, it is said, defied the lightning. If he did, he was a fool. A zip-cr-r-ack, and Ajax, as the old Latins would tell us, "has been." Far saner would he have proved himself, had he allowed the thunder to do the talking, while he quietly slipped out of his armor and made record time for the nearest shelter. When the lightning was zigzagging in the sky it was time for him to get in out of the rain. It was silly stage-play to defy the forces of Nature. He had nothing to gain. He had everything to lose. Jupiter needn't have been very particular in taking aim: a coat-of-mail would, by its very attractiveness, have drawn the bolt to the right spot. Ajax, we repeat, was a fool, and every sensible man will agree with us. Far wiser was Franklin. He wooed the Nature that Ajax had defied, and with a simple plaything of childhood enriched mankind with forces that have made the modem world. "Thy eye," said the lover in Shakespeare, "Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder. Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire." (Love's Labor Lost.) Defy Nature, contend with Nature and you reap destruction; bend to her will, observe her laws, and the discords of life will be blended into music, the dross of our humanity will be purified by her sacred fire. Ajax, defiance of Nature, war, decadence; Franklin, conformity with Nature, peace, progress; good and evil, to be determined by choice; this is the lot of human life. The choice is life to the individual. The choice is life to the race. The part of Ajax is manifold and many play it unawares. In condemning him it behooves us to examine in how far we are condemning ourselves.
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Ajax, it is said, defied the lightning. If he did, he was a fool. A zip-cr-r-ack, and Ajax, as the old Latins would tell us, "has been." Far saner would he have proved himself, had he allowed the thunder to do the talking, while he quietly slipped out of his armor and made record time for the nearest shelter. When the lightning was zigzagging in the sky it was time for him to get in out of the rain. It was silly stage-play to defy the forces of Nature. He had nothing to gain. He had everything to lose. Jupiter needn't have been very particular in taking aim: a coat-of-mail would, by its very attractiveness, have drawn the bolt to the right spot. Ajax, we repeat, was a fool, and every sensible man will agree with us. Far wiser was Franklin. He wooed the Nature that Ajax had defied, and with a simple plaything of childhood enriched mankind with forces that have made the modem world. "Thy eye," said the lover in Shakespeare, "Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder. Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire." (Love's Labor Lost.) Defy Nature, contend with Nature and you reap destruction; bend to her will, observe her laws, and the discords of life will be blended into music, the dross of our humanity will be purified by her sacred fire. Ajax, defiance of Nature, war, decadence; Franklin, conformity with Nature, peace, progress; good and evil, to be determined by choice; this is the lot of human life. The choice is life to the individual. The choice is life to the race. The part of Ajax is manifold and many play it unawares. In condemning him it behooves us to examine in how far we are condemning ourselves.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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