Night and Day: October 20, 2015

Photo by Craig Sargent

Why, she reflected, should there be this perpetual disparity between the thought and the action, between the life of solitude and the life of society, this astonishing precipice on one side of which the soul was active and in broad daylight, on the other side of which it was contemplative and dark as night?  Was it not possible to step from one to the other, erect, and without essential change?

Night and Day (228-9)


Night and Day was published on October 20, 1927.