The Ruling Passion

By Van Dyke, Henry

Book Id: WPLBN0000633946
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Ruling Passion
Author:	Van Dyke, Henry
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: In every life worth writing about there is a ruling passion,??the very pulse of the machine.? Unless you touch that, you are groping around outside of reality. Sometimes it is romantic love: Natures masterpiece of interested benevolence. In almost all lives this passion has its season of empire. Therefore, and rightly, it is the favourite theme of the storyteller. Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know. But there are other passions, no less real, which also have their place and power in human life. Some of them come earlier, and sometimes they last longer, than romantic love. They play alongside of it and are mixed up with it, now checking it, now advancing its flow and tingeing it with their own colour.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Ruling Passion, 1 -- Henry van Dyke, 1 -- A WRITER'S REQUEST OF HIS MASTER, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- A LOVER OF MUSIC, 3 -- I, 3 -- II, 6 -- III, 10 -- IV, 13 -- THE REWARD OF VIRTUE, 16 -- I, 16 -- II, 20 -- III, 23 -- IV, 24 -- A BRAVE HEART, 25 -- I, 26 -- II, 31 -- III, 34 -- THE GENTLE LIFE, 35 -- A FRIEND OF JUSTICE, 40 -- I, 40 -- II, 44 -- III, 46 -- THE WHITE BLOT, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53 -- A YEAR OF NOBILITY, 58 -- I. ENTER THE MARQUIS, 58 -- II. AN ALLIANCE OF RIVALS, 64 -- III. A HAPPY ENDING WHICH IS ALSO A BEGINNING, 66 -- THE KEEPER OF THE LIGHT, 69 -- I, 70 -- II, 72 -- III, 76 -- IV, 79