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Excerpt from The Book of Job
Soul in its mundane con¿ict, facing the inexorable Of sorrow, change, pain, and death, and feeling within itself at one and the same time weakness and energy, the hero and the serf, brilliant hopes, terrible fears. With entire veracity and amazing force this book represents the never-ending drama renewed in every generationand every-genuine life. It breaks upon us out Of the Old world and dim muf¿ed centuries with all the vigour Of the modern soul and that religious impetuosity which none but Hebrews seem fully to have known. Looking for precursors Of Job we find a seeming Spiritual burden and intensity in the Accadian psalms, their confessions and prayers; but if they prepared the way for Hebrew psalmists~ and for the author Of Job, it was not by awaking the cardinal thoughts that make this book what it is, nor by supplying an example Of the dramatic order, the fine sincerity and abounding art we find here welling up out Of the desert. The Accadian psalms are fragments Of a polytheistic and ceremonial world; they Spring from the soil which Abraham abandoned that he might found a race Of strong men and strike out a new clear way Of life. Exhibiting the fear, superstition, and ignorance of our race, they fall away from comparison.
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