THE ECLIPSE In the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to supplement knowledge.

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to _realize_ your fact, it takes on color.

It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done.

In the stillness and the darkness, the knowledge that I was in deadly danger took to itself deeper and deeper meaning all the time; a something which was realization crept inch by inch through my veins and turned me cold.
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies.

Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.