Show THE WHY of superstitions by H KINQ THE EBB TIDE the people living on the new england coast no super Is more firmly implanted than atal 9 nian cannot die except when tie tide Is running ebb alie patient abd the otate of the tide are anxiously pitched and it the sick person lives until the flood sets in again it is be tiered that he will live at least until the beginning of the next ebb even the most intelligent and alie best ed neater of the lakkees of the coast ire not entirely free from this super on the coast of old england it ts tie same as on the coast of new eng land it being high water he went out falth the tide says dickens in peaking of the death of barkis in david tennyson florl fie the superstition in crossing the bar and shakespeare makes falstaff ral staff ae even at the turning of the tide this superstition was accepted as i with regard to all animals by the great philosopher aristotle more than two years ago and the famous roman naturalist pliny de blared that it had been proved a tact alth regard to human beings the Is a natural growth arts fiig from the perfect analogy of the tide and ebbing life of man t analogy beautifully employed by t tennyson when he imagines his own spirit ebbing into the great sea of infinity when that which drew from out the boundless deep turns again lione and back of that is the spell of the of the sea which it modern tn are not entirely able to throw how much more strongly roust it tive affected the minds of men born eltore the olympiade olympiads ds A volume ight be written about the deification ot the sea the personification of the and its endowment with all sorts of mystic properties by the ancients fl if as some scientists tell us ha a life has evolved primarily from e tadpole and the fish mans life out with the ebb tide Is but re taming to its primal source rut it w the dramatic analogy between the ebbing fea and the ebbing life that caused the superstition and that keeps it alive by New syndicate |