Article March 5, 1921 ISSUE

Signs of the Times

with contributions from James L. Gordon, Oskar Seitz, Oliver M. Fisher, Norman Maclean

["Expectation"—The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, U.S.A., Jan. 4, 1921]

In one of his lectures on Shakespeare delivered in London, a little over a century ago, Coleridge, under a sectional heading, "Expectation in preference to surprise," has this to say: "It is like the true reading of the passage: 'God said, Let there be light: and there was light;' not there waslight. As the feeling with which we startle at a shooting star, compared with that of watching the sunrise at the preestablished moment, such and so low is surprise compared with expectation."

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