On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
Hilaire Belloc
“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the gleam, so that they have become in their Donnish middleage a nuisance and a pest; while he--that other--with the Truth very fast and firm at the end of a leather thong is dragging her sliding, whining and crouching on her four feet, dragging her reluctant through the world, even into the broad daylight where Truth most hates to be.”
- Hilaire Belloc
Author - Hilaire Belloc.
Narrator - LibriVox Community.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Description:
“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the gleam, so that they have become in their Donnish middleage a nuisance and a pest; while he--that other--with the Truth very fast and firm at the end of a leather thong is dragging her sliding, whining and crouching on her four feet, dragging her reluctant through the world, even into the broad daylight where Truth most hates to be.” - Hilaire Belloc Author - Hilaire Belloc. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:15:16
Chapter 2
Duration:00:08:34
Chapter 3
Duration:00:11:25
Chapter 4
Duration:00:10:32
Chapter 5
Duration:00:09:29
Chapter 6
Duration:00:13:04
Chapter 7
Duration:00:08:02
Chapter 8
Duration:00:11:36
Chapter 9
Duration:00:06:47
Chapter 10
Duration:00:07:05
Chapter 11
Duration:00:16:35
Chapter 12
Duration:00:11:36
Chapter 13
Duration:00:13:42
Chapter 14
Duration:00:10:17
Chapter 15
Duration:00:13:07
Chapter 16
Duration:00:13:47
Chapter 17
Duration:00:09:43
Chapter 18
Duration:00:11:55
Chapter 19
Duration:00:12:23
Chapter 20
Duration:00:10:14
Chapter 21
Duration:00:14:24
Chapter 22
Duration:00:12:34
Chapter 23
Duration:00:11:02
Chapter 24
Duration:00:10:55
Chapter 25
Duration:00:14:03
Chapter 26
Duration:00:11:55
Chapter 27
Duration:00:10:02
Chapter 28
Duration:00:10:09
Chapter 29
Duration:00:12:26
Chapter 30
Duration:00:08:07
Chapter 31
Duration:00:10:48
Chapter 32
Duration:00:11:37