They gave me body, so that I have eyes like my father's and hair like my mother's. Nor am I disowning my father and mother of the flesh, for they were also partners in the generation of my second self copartners with my entire line of ancestors. Surely it has happened before that one body served more than one spiritual organization. My second birth was no less a birth because there was no distinct incarnation. Now I am the spiritual offspring of the marriage within my conscious experience of the Past and the Present. My life I have still to live her life ended when mine began.Ī generation is sometimes a more satisfactory unit for the study of humanity than a lifetime and spiritual generations are as easy to demark as physical ones. I can analyze my subject, I can reveal everything for she, and not I, is my real heroine. I could speak in the third person and not feel that I was masquerading. Physical continuity with my earlier self is no disadvantage. Is it not time to write my life's story? I am just as much out of the way as if I were dead, for I am absolutely other than the person whose story I have to tell. THE TIDE HAD RUSHED IN, STEALING AWAY OUR SEA-WEED CUSHIONS 362īorn, I have lived, and I have been made over. THE FAMOUS STUDY, THAT WAS FIT TO HAVE BEEN PRESERVED AS A SHRINE 346
THE NATURAL HISTORY CLUB HAD FREQUENT FIELD EXCURSIONS 328īATES HALL, WHERE I SPENT MY LONGEST HOURS IN THE LIBRARY 342 I LIKED TO STAND AND LOOK DOWN ON THE DIM TANGLE OF RAILROAD TRACKS BELOW 298 HARRISON AVENUE IS THE HEART OF THE SOUTH END GHETTO 288 WHEELER STREET, IN THE LOWER SOUTH END OF BOSTON 264 TWOSCORE OF MY FELLOW-CITIZENS–PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHELSEA 230 UNION PLACE (BOSTON) WHERE MY NEW HOME WAITED FOR ME 184 SABBATH LOAVES FOR SALE (BREAD MARKET, POLOTZK) 124 MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE, WHERE I WAS BORN 80 HEDER (HEBREW SCHOOL) FOR BOYS IN POLOTZK 34 ILLUSTRATIONS MASHKE AND FETCHKE Frontispiece THE GRAVE-DIGGER OF POLOTZK 24 A Celebration of Women Writers The Promised Land.ĬOPYRIGHT, 19, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANYĬOPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
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