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