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Summary | On Fear           A.G. Gardiner in his essay "On Fear" talks about fear as an essential component of life. There is no person who is without it. Some experience it every moment, some know how to handle it and others just ignore it. It depends in which category one falls. Gardiner has beautifully discussed about fear with a number of examples from the life of a great men. People want to do risky things just to experience what fear is? Sometimes fear makes us act immediately without reasoning. This may be fatal at times. People with practical thinking feel less while people will imaginatively mind fear no more for the mind keeps thinking on it again and again till it become a seeded fear in the mind. Is taking risk always advisable? Explain from Swinburne's experience.    A.G. Gardiner, a British journalist and essayist, wrote a number of essays which are uniformly elegant, graceful and humorous. His uniqueness lay in his ability ...

          "Of course," he said, "she wanted to know why I had done such a thing, and when I told her, she laughed a short sweet laugh, most satisfactory to the younger ear, and said, "Nobody ever thought you were a coward, my boy." I said that was all very well, but how could I tell till I tried? "But you won't do it again? she said. I replied, "Of course not-where would be the fun?" For Summary of the Chapter, Please click the below link >> Summary        It was not that he had no fear: it was that he wanted to convince himself that he was able to master his fear when the emergency came. Having discovered that he had fear under his control there was no sense in taking risks for the mere sake of taking them.           Most fears are purely subjective, the phantoms of a too vivid mind. I was looking over a deserted house situated in large grounds in the country the other day. It had been emptying ...

          I am disposed to agree with Captain Dolbey that the man who knows no fear exists only in the imagination of the lady novelist or those who fight their battles at the base. He is invented because these naïve people suppose that a hero who is conscious of fear ceases to be a hero. But the truth surely is that there would be no merit in being brave if you had no fear. The real victory of the hero is not over outward circumstance, but over himself. One of the bravest men of our time is a man who was born timid and nervous and suffered tortures of apprehension, and who set himself to the deliberate conquest of his fears by challenging every danger that crossed his path and even going out of his way to meet the things he dreaded. By sheer will he beat down the enemy within, and to the external world he seemed like a man who knew no fear. But the very essence of his heroism was that he had fought fear and won. For Summary of the Chapter, Please click the...