...no bad cure-all for the sadness of an imperfect world. 'For every age,' says the melancholy Conrad, 'is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.' ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS BY JAMES NORMAN HALL UPON returning last summer from a long sojourn among...

...his personal fascinations. For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and human race come to an end. It's easy to imagine Schomberg's...under his nose by "that Swede," apparently without anytrouble worth speaking of. He refused to believe the fact. He would have it, at first, that the...

...one's ailments. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955), 36. JOSEPH CONRAD: For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should...renounce life early and the human race come to an end. Joseph Conrad, Victory (New York: Modern Library, 1932), 91, FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: ... to look now out...

...avert our eyes from reality and trust in an absurdist faith. "For every age," Joseph Conrad wrote, "is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end." 4 The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human...