The Measure of My Days by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell [Scott-Maxwell, Florida]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Women, Nonfiction, History
ISBN: 9780307828347
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1968-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Evolution is necessarily slow since we resent it so. A large proportion of our energy is used in holding it back, wanting to stop it if possible. The new good is refused countless times before it is accepted. The rare, the beautiful, the admirable are taken as rebukes, making us feel inferior, suggesting our improvement. Anything but that, so we mock at the new, recoil from the rare, be-little the great, until finally grown accustomed … to ignore is easy.

I am ashamed to admit to myself that I am disappointed in humanity. Nothing less. That is the ache that lies behind other aches. Not disappointed in this beautiful world, owing much of its beauty to man, but somehow broken-hearted at the incorrigibility of man. The animals know how to live and be beautiful and themselves; primitive peoples evolve religions that give meaning to their lives. But as soon as consciousness arrives man begins his blunders. His genius is for creating insoluble problems, every cure creating new difficulties. How could it be otherwise since consciousness is the intolerable registering of pain and pleasure, opinion and belief. Consciousness seems to be both what life strives to evolve and its greatest danger.

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