John Cowper Powys Championship Page - Post #2 - "Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life."

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.

(John Cowper Powys)

To philosophize is not to read philosophy; it is to feel philosophy. The raw spikes and jagged edges, the sour-tasting dust and wind-blown debris of superficial real life have to be deliberately comprehended, or at least evaded, before the more secret rhythms, the more recondite patterns of Nature, her humours, her tragedies, her poetry take shape in the mind.

(John Cowper Powys)

Photo Credits:
Photos #1 and #2--Images suggested by the novel Rodmoor, by John Cowper Powys, thanks to Bruno Gaultier, Systar du Systeme a L'Etoile
Photo #3--"A Welsh Village" thanks to Pr Mark Henderson