Water-Quality Assessment of the Eastern Iowa Basins: Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Suspended Sediment, and Organic Carbon in Surface Water, 1996-98

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...he has helped to cause, he refuses Albany's invitation to join him in his attempt at reformation; an invitation, be it observed, which Edgar does not decline. Conscious that he has but marred where he has desired to mend, he feels that for him opportunity is past. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. To Kent, with the sad ineffectiveness of his earnest purpose and impassioned love, there is a companion picture in The Fool. In him too unselfish love is active. He possesses in addition no small amount of insight and of wisdom. He means well in all he says and does. Few things in literature are so pathetic as his attempts, after the fashion that befits a jester, to divert the thoughts and alleviate the misery of the king. But deepseated evils cannot be remedied by jests, not even though the jests show wisdom as well as wit. And so the Fool, despite his incisive wisdom, passes away like a mist. We know not what becomes of him. We only know that he gives no real help to the master whom he loves so well. Perhaps he has only helped to madden him. It is among the sad mysteries of life that so much which is good and beautiful and appears most hopeful, should come to nothing, as does this most loveable of fools. When out of fifty seeds, Nature brings but one to bear, the one that succeeds has often no sounder germ within, and seems no better fitted to environment, than the many that are failures. It is a reminder of how little we see of the meaning of things, even when we see most, that a heart so tender, a purpose so sincere, and a wisdom so real, as the Fool's, should be wasted in the void. In this respect, the Fool and Kent are obvious and intended contrasts to Edgar. His love is not more active, ...