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Thought Amid Action: Reflections on an Occupied Age

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 29, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 22.

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Thought Amid Action: Reflections on an Occupied Age

By Alfred de Musset

THERE are people who tell you our age is pre-occupied, that men no longer read anything or care for anything. Napoleon was occupied, I think, at Beresina; he, however, had his Ossian with him. When did thought lose the power of being able to leap into the saddle behind action? When did man forget to rush like Tyreus to the combat, a sword in one hand, a lyre in the other? Since the world still has a body, it has a soul.—Alfred de Musset.