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Title: Darkwater
Voices From Within The Veil
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Release Date: February 28, 2005 [EBook #15210]
Language: English
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DARKWATER
Voices from within the Veil
W.E.B. DU BOIS
Originally published in 1920 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York.
AD NINAM
May 12, 1896
POSTSCRIPT
These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War. To this thinking I have only to add a point of view: I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating ways. For this reason, and this alone, I venture to write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater words, in the hope that I may strike here and there a half-tone, newer ev