The Stoic

THE STOIC

the world panorama of life. A speck of human kindness in the sea of need and despair! She recalled the poor starving children of India – their tortured faces! The cruelty, neglect and torturesome indifference of the rest of the world to their pathetic plight.

«What is the world anyway?» she asked herself. «Why should millions of little things come into it only to be tortured and so denied – to be allowed to die from want, cold, starvation?» Yes, to be sure, she thought, she was now at last trying to do what she could to relieve the sufferings of a few children, who were fortunate enough to be taken into her hospital. But what about all of those thousands who could not be taken in? What of them? A drop in the ocean was her contribution. One drop!

Berenice relived in her mind her entire life. She thought of Cowperwood and the part she had played in his life. How long he had struggled and fought – for what? Wealth, power, luxury, influence, social position? Where were they now, the aspirations and dreams of achievement that so haunted and drove Frank Cowperwood? And how far away from all this she had moved in so short a time! How suddenly she was awakened to the grim realities of life from her own protected, abundant and indulged way of living – a way of living she might never have been able to evaluate to herself if she had not in the first place acted upon the impulse to go to a strange country like India, where she had at every turn contrasts thrust upon her sensibilities – contrasts from which there was no escape.

There, for the first time, she had experienced the dawn of a spiritual awakening, which was even now enabling her to see more clearly. She must go on, she must grow, she thought, and acquire, if possible, a real and deep understanding of the meaning of life and its spiritual import.

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Theodore Dreiser

The Stoic

Выпускающий редактор: И. Ефанова Редактор: П. Воронин

Корректор: И. Серегина Компьютерная верстка: Т. Мосолова Художественное оформление: Д. Пермяков

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