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Title: Darkwater
Voices From Within The Veil
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Release Date: February 28, 2005 [EBook #15210]
Language: English
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DARKWATER
Voices from within the Veil
W.E.B. DU BOIS
Originally published in 1920 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New
York.
AD NINAM
May 12, 1896

POSTSCRIPT
These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves
and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and
service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and
Death and War. To this thinking I have only to add a point of view: I
have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from
a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have
reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment
of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual
and even illuminating ways. For this reason, and this alone, I venture to
write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater
words, in the hope that I may strike here and there a half-tone, newer
even if slighter, up from the heart of my problem and the problems of
my people.
Between the sterner flights of logic, I have sought to set some little
alightings of what may be poetry. They are tributes to Beauty,
unworthy to stand alone; yet perversely, in my mind, now at the end, I
know not whether I mean the Thought for the Fancy--or the Fancy for
the Thought, or why the book trails off to playing, rather than standing
strong on unanswering fact. But this is alway--is it not?--the Riddle of
Life.
Many of my words appear here transformed from other publications
and I thank the _Atlantic_, the _Independent_, the _Crisis_, and the
_Journal of Race Development_ for letting me use them again.
W.E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS.
New York, 1919.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
POSTSCRIPT ix
_Credo_ 1

I. THE SHADOW OF YEARS 3
_A Litany at Atlanta_ 14

II. THE SOULS OF WHITE FOLK 17
_The Riddle of the Sphinx_ 30

III. THE HANDS OF ETHIOPIA 32
_The Princess of the Hither Isles_ 43
IV. OF WORK AND WEALTH 47
_The Second Coming_ 60

V. "THE SERVANT IN THE HOUSE" 63
_Jesus Christ in Texas_ 70

VI. OF THE RULING OF MEN