And Poe Said by Rene Bard

Author:Rene Bard [Bard, Rene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00

[56] I believe I read that about her,” Hyatt said, looking up for a moment, catching Edgar’s eye. “Do you know anything about her politics, Mister Leonard?”

“Unfortunately, more than I wish, but less than would be useful if it is a minute summary that you seek. That she is a Democratic town is a general axiom of the region,” Edgar said.

“And what, pray, is unfortunate about that?”

“Tis election time come Wednesday, and the city will be turned upside down by it.”

“Just so. Just so,” said Hyatt as he licked his lips and then the edge of the tobacco paper. To Edgar, it seemed that he might have cast his answer to the void so intent was Hyatt on this task. But, after rolling a perfect cylinder, Hyatt said, “I’ll lay you any bet you please that you won’t find anything less Democratic than a Democratic town. Am I not right?”

“I do not know, Mister Hyatt. I waste little time thinking upon these types of questions. No value in it. I have no faith in politics, if that is your meaning, nor in the generally held belief of human perfectibility; it is a false belief that engenders the grossest rancor of partisanship. It leads—even in these modern times—to the basest tyrannies. Man is now only more active—not more happy—nor more wise, than he was six thousand years ago. The result will never vary—and to suppose that it will is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain—that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future—that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves—nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass

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