Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Though she had counted the strokes of every hour since midnight, Mrs. Eveleth had no thought of going to bed. When she was not sitting bolt upright, indifferent to comfort, in one of the stiff-backed, gilded chairs, she was limping, with the aid of her cane, up and down the long suite of salons, listening for the sound of wheels. She knew that George and Diane would be surprised to find her waiting up for them, and that they...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There are many books which give some help to many people. There are books which give a set of rules, or even one master rule, by which to meet the problems of life. This is not such a book. It suggests no simple recipe for the conquest of fear. Instead, it presents, what all too few of us to-day possess, a philosophy of life. Moreover, in contrast to the dominant thinking of our age, which is materialistic, King's philosophy is...

The Conquest of Fear is a very personal work by an author who had first-hand knowledge of the subject matter. From a very early age Basil King suffered from poor health and eyesight, and had to live with the very real possibility that he would go completely blind and die young. These debilitating fears plagued him throughout his childhood, and would return to haunt him in adulthood at crucial moments. As King sought a reprieve from his suffering, he became aware that the answer lay not in physical cure or endurance, but in spiritual harmony with God. The Conquest of Fear is an explanation of...

My small experience in the conquest of fear can be condensed into these four words: Calmly resting! quiet trust! That amid the turmoil of the time and the feverishness of our days it is always easy I do not pretend. Still less do I pretend that I accomplish it. I have said, a few lines above, that I tried. Trying is as far as I have gone; but even trying is productive of wonderful results.

Previously serialised in various journals, this is the first collection of these personal and historical vignettes in alternating prose and poetry, from an artist who moves from London's East End to Black Mountain College to the New York Art scene.