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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...further be suggested that the extreme aloof- ness and inhumanity, which is logically necessary in the idea of a Creator God, of an Infinite God, was t... ...dom of God on earth. Each believer as he grasps this natural and immediate consequence of the faith that has come into his life will form at the same ... ..., and sexual status of no account in the presence of God. It follows quite logically that God does not discriminate between man and woman in any essen... ...f’s “Nature of Man,” he will find there an interesting summary of the bio- logical facts that bear upon and destroy the delusion that there is such a ... ...e of every man to fall short at every point from perfection. From the bio- logical point of view we are as individuals a series of involun- tary “trie... ...irectly you cease to hide or deny or escape, and turn manfully towards the consequences and the setting of things right, you take hold again of the ha...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...scover I was peering into remote and mysterious worlds ruled by an or- der logical indeed but other than our common sanity. The ‘nineties was a good a... ...ud- den change in the field of force due to the lightning. He thinks, as a consequence of this, that it may be possible to live visually in one part o... ... die in the grip of the Great Dynamo he had been a little scared about the consequences of his act. Yet he felt strangely elated, and knew that the fa... ...the great feud between Hapley and Professor Pawkins, though certain of its consequences may be new to you. For those who have not, a word or two of ex... .... I was inclined to imagine there was still some hiatus in my memory, as a consequence of my draught of that strange liqueur; that I had come into my ... ...shed ashore near Torquay, and a few days later a boat from the Marine Bio- logical station, engaged in dredging off Plymouth, picked up a rotting spec... ...a proverbial expression! The evi- dence of his absolute disappearance as a consequence of that explosion is indubitable. It is not necessary to enlarg... ... equally be- tween his biological work at the College and social and theo- logical theorising, an employment which he took in deadly earnest. Of a nig... ...e acceptable haziness. And from that, following, as I must admit, no clear logical path, he came to the test of experiment. He pointed resolutely to h...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...arneffe had just said concerning Lisbeth Fischer they had come to know, in consequence, partly, of the loneliness of the neighborhood, and of the alli... ...itious married courtesans who from the first accept depravity with all its consequences, and determine to make a fortune while taking their pleasure, ... ...rything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived the life of nature, at... ...uld leave me alone on condition of being head- clerk. It is abominable—but logical.” “Valerie, do you love me?” “In the state in which I am, my dear, ... ...t them at twenty-five, and they will go up to 229 Balzac three hundred in consequence of the amalgamation of the two lines, which is a secret told to... ...he unsatisfactory state of the Algerian ex- chequer, which has come out in consequence of the death and disappearance of two employes, has had some sh... ...hing. That is not all. I shall be committed to prison within a few days in consequence of the bills held by Vauvinet. So I must keep out of the way un...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

...why at such a time. His reply was in a way characteristic of him, for it was logical and forceful and mysterious. He said, “Ah, you don’t comprehend... ...en a consola tion and a help to him, terrible though it be and awful in its consequences, to know for certain that his eyes and ears and brain did no... ... absolute accuracy with which his instructions were fulfilled was simply the logical result of his care. I saw the invoice, and took note of it.‘Fifty... ...nds, this is much, it is a terrible task that we undertake, and there may be consequence to make the brave shudder. For if we fail in this our fight 2... ...d the soul as a butterfly!” I thought I would push his analogy to its utmost logically, so I said quickly, “Oh, it is a soul you are after now, is it?... ...r forms of life altogether, though he dreads being haunted by their souls. Logically all these things point one way! He has assurance of some kind ... ...ssurance of some kind that he will acquire some higher life. He dreads the consequence, the burden of a soul. Then it is a human life he looks to! ...

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Dead Souls

By: D. J. Hogarth

...) she had not sold them at something like a third of their true value. The consequences of her venture the reader will learn from a conversation betwe... ...of new terms and phrases, and displayed in their exposition of things both logical sequence and a zest for modern discovery and much warmth of individ... ...) under a Sec- ond,—the village of Gurmailovka alone excepted, in that, in consequence of a Suit having been brought against Landowner Priadistchev, a...

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Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

...poor girl, Jupe, that she could not be received at the school any more, in consequence of there being practical objec tions, into which I need not en... ...to Mrs. Sparsit. He could not make up his mind how to do that, or what the consequences of the step might be. Whether she would instantly depart, bag ... ...glanced to the two women, and to Stephen. ‘I have come to speak to you, in consequence of what passed just now. I should like to be serviceable to you... ...pounds. I have not been able to give it to him. I have felt uneasy for the consequences of his being so involved, but I have kept these secrets until ... ...of him, if she chose. Then why doesn’t she choose, when I tell her of what consequence it is? But no. There she sits in his company like a stone, inst... ...sister here. Pity us!’ ‘Sir,’ returned Bitzer, in a very business like and logical man ner, ‘since you ask me what motive I have in reason, for takin...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ent of the other part, opposition from the North and war was an inevitable consequence. It is, I think, only necessary to look back to the Revo- lutio... ...rance, however, having been made at the in- stance of Napoleon, and not in consequence of any de- mand made by the States. The district then called Lo... ...have acquired has been the cause of their success. It does not follow as a consequence that the Canadas, fighting their battle alone in the world, cou... ...tion might stand in their way. But I fear that it does follow, if not as a logical conclusion, at least as a natural result, that they never will do s... ... thing beautiful, but on account of the immediate reward which will be its consequence. Smith is enjoined not to cheat Jones, because he will, in the ... ...the Federal government has been called to the war, and have become bold in consequence. When I was at St. Paul I heard of a party of Englishmen who ha... ... on the States. The political action of the States is undoubtedly the more logical and the clearer. That, indeed, of England is so illogical and so li... ...e classed with any religious association. The line of argu- ment is hardly logical, the conclusion not being in accor- dance with or hanging on the fi...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...ions of the innumerable inhabitants of the world during the many past geo- logical epochs in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long... ... structure of each individual for the benefit of the community; if each in consequence profits by the selected change. What natural selection cannot d... ... very little sediment is being deposited, there will be blanks in our geo- logical history. The crust of the earth is a vast mu- seum; but the natural... ...od for its possessor, then, under changing conditions of life, there is no logical impossibility in the acquirement of any conceivable degree of perfe... ...habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird. Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to loo... ...- erpillars,—not as specially endowed or created in- stincts, but as small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic ... ...ecies; but during such periods there will generally be a blank in the geo- logical record. On the other hand, during subsidence, the inhabited area an... ...ation to some extent. The extinction of old forms is the almost inevitable consequence of the 306 On the Origin of Species production of new forms. W... ...to wide dispersal would follow from this capacity as an almost neces- sary consequence. We can here consider only a few cases. In regard to fish, I be...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...ms very favourable to its success. There is, perhaps in every thing of any consequence, a secret history which it would be amusing to know, could we h... ...re, which it exhibited, like some of the reflections of Rochefaucault. The consequence was, that he went home with Reynolds, and supped with him. Sir ... ... in the Dic- tionary, to which his Lordship’s patronage might have been of consequence.’ He then told Dr. Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him ... ...o feel very sensibly the distinction which you have bestowed upon me. ‘Few consequences of my endeavours to please or to benefit mankind have delighte... ...cteristical anecdote of Johnson while at Plymouth. Having observed that in consequence of the Dock-yard a new town had arisen about two miles off as a... ...not be too often or too highly praised; of which Mr. Harris, in his Philo- logical Inquiries, justly and liberally observes: ‘Such is its merit, that ...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

..., with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle’s Roman nose so aggravated me, during the r... ...t his anwil. – Y ou’re a-listening and understanding, Pip?” “Y es, Joe.” “‘Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father, several times; an... ...g, Pip, or the pot won’t bile, don’t you know?” I saw that, and said so. “‘Consequence, my father didn’t make objections to my going to work; so I wen... ...First (to get our thoughts in order): Forty-three pence?” I calculated the consequences of replying “Four Hundred Pound,” and finding them against me,... ...re left alone together, he sat with an air upon him of general lying by in consequence of informa- tion he possessed, that really was too much for me.... ...t, as I should so put it. Both of which,” said Joe, quite charmed with his logical arrangement, “being done, now this to you a true friend, say . Name...

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Two Poets

By: Honoré de Balzac

...haunted the cathedral; they cul- tivated the society of the clergy; and in consequence, when books of devotion were once more in demand, Cointet Broth... ...ng becomes impossible. Here this close sympathy was lacking, and Lucien in consequence was in the position of an angel who should endeavor to sing of ... ...bamboo. The Abbe Grozier had a Chinese book, an iconographical and techno- logical work, with a great many pictures in it, illustrating all the differ...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

...on puts Homer and the Homeric poems proper back in the ages before chrono- logical history began, and at the same time assigns the purely Cyclic poems... ...haracter, and it is also the best-known of the Hymns to English readers in consequence of Shelley’s translation. After a brief narrative of the birth ... .... 242: For Helen had been previously carried off by Theseus, and it was in consequence of this earlier rape that Aphidna, a town in Attica, was sacked...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...sses of mankind. And this state of affairs may come about more easily than logical, statistical-minded people may be disposed to think. Our first impu... ...whose intensity officialdom would do well to ponder. But it is the natural consequence of, it is the popular attempt at a corrective to, the aloofness... ...troublesome thing to elect them, but it will involve much more troublesome consequences if they are not elected. This, I think, is one of the consider... ...But so soon as the League takes on the shape its general proposition makes logically necessary, the armament interest will take fright. Then it is we ... ...st concede that. But in practice this involves something else. A practical consequence of this disarmament idea must be an effective control of the im... ... we are united. The question I would put to the reader is this: Are we all logically, sincerely, and fully carrying out the plain implica- tions of th... ...complete change in international methods, and we are bound to stick to the logical conse- quences of that. We have placed ourselves on the side of dem... ...ng things. Life is full of vestigial struc- tures, and it is a long way to logical perfection. Let us keep on, they would argue, with what we have. An... ...nd alone again and be secure. And turning now to the other aspect of these consequences of the development of material science, it is too often as- su...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...he could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial pro- trusions of ... ...me in ecclesiastical, and perhaps found themselves surprisingly grouped in consequence; while a few personages or families that stood with rocky firmn... ... many patients among their connections and ac- quaintances. For who of any consequence in Middlemarch was not connected or at least acquainted with th... ...appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality,” said Rosamond, turning her head towards Mary, but ... ... He saw no way of eluding Featherstone’s stupid demand with- out incurring consequences which he liked less even than the task of fulfilling it. His f... ... all: the result of the struggle is the same thing—pic- ture or no picture—logically.” Will could not resist this imperturbable temper, and the cloud ... ...urse it is,” said Will, impatiently. “But if you are to wait till we get a logical Bill, you must put yourself forward as a revolutionist, and then Mi...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ophic significance? are two entirely different orders of question from the logical point of view; and, as a failure to recognize this fact distinctly ... ...th the same eye with which he looks on all other natural things, since the consequences of our affections flow from their nature with the same necessi... ...; but at any rate it has become profoundly uninstructive: we can deduce no consequences from it which help us to interpret religion’s meaning or value... ...n environment which re- fuses to bear them out for any length of time. The consequence of this discrepancy of the two criteria is the uncertainty whic... ...or them here, and hold their own against inferences which, in mere love of logical consistency, medical materialism ought to be only too glad to draw.... ...lternation, we see that it probably contains nothing whatever of a psycho- logically specific nature. There is religious fear, reli- gious love, relig... ...rd “religion” would be inconvenient, however defensible it might remain on logical grounds. There are trifling, sneering atti- tudes even toward the w... ...ess and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else. This enchantment, coming as a gift ... ...ic philosopher, Father Gratry, in his au- tobiographical recollections. In consequence of mental isolation and excessive study at the Polytechnic scho...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...e said. In so far as the Germans are chargeable with such, let them take the consequence. Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has ... ...h’s, if cunningly planted down, were no despicable pile, or floodgate, in the logical wear. For the rest, be it nowise apprehended, that any personal c... ...in petto thy remarkable V olume on Clothes. Nay, was there not in that clear logically founded Transcendentalism of thine; still more, in thy meek, si... ...hrough the Narrative portions, a certain show of outward method; but of true logical method and sequence there is too little. Apart from its multifari... ...t for triumph but for defence, hast thou always worn them perforce, and as a consequence of Man’s Fall; never rejoiced in them as in a warm movable Ho... ... readiness our fancy, in this shattered state of the nerves, follows out the consequences which Teufels dr¨ ockh, with a devilish coolness, goes on t... ... crotchets: a typical Shadow, fitfully wavering, prophetico satiric; no clear logical Picture. “How paint to the sensual eye,” asks he once, “what pass... ...o attaining the po litical effects of Nudity without its frigorific or other consequences,—be thereby realized. Would not the rich man purchase a wate... ...glean (whether from the Paper bags or the Printed V olume) what little seems logical and practical, and cunningly arrange it into such degree of coher...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...hristian evan- gelical congressmen and senators. On an issue of such great consequence, our Administrations voice must be heard. If judges insist on o... ..., , , , however, isn’t without faults, according to his wife. Richard uses logical reasoning and Vera relies on mood and feeling when dealing with cer... ... (assertions in writing terms) one needs to pro- vide evidence in a highly logical fashion. This in- cludes providing the reader with the very best so...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ial security measures. Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta’s selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were hel... ...d because the agent found both of the passengers to be suspicious.The only consequence of their selection was that their checked bags were held off th... ...ac- curate accounts created the impression that the Langley scramble was a logical response to an actual hijacked aircraft. In fact, not only was the ... ...related to the W orld Trade Center bombing and other plots. An unfortunate consequence of this superb investigative and prosecutorial effort was that ... ...cedures was ignored routinely. 37 We will describe some of the unfortunate consequences of these accumulated institutional beliefs and prac- tices in ... ...lly ended in negotiations, an ambassador or other embassy official was the logical person to represent U.S. interests. Keeping U.S. diplomatic efforts... ...hile targets, such as other al Qaeda leaders or stocks of chemical or bio- logical weapons. 117 Clarke was not alone in his enthusiasm. He had backing... ...hdhar several years later. 13 The circumstantial evidence makes Thumairy a logical person to consider as a possible contact for Hazmi and Mihdhar.Y et... ...82 Mullah Omar is reported to have opposed this course of action for ideo- logical reasons rather than out of fear of U.S. retaliation. He is said to ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...any various volumes, is bound, above all things, to make that condensation logical and striking. For the only justification of his writing at all is t... ...fault, as all of us do, and openly overtaken, as not all of us are, by its consequences, to gloss the matter over, with too polite biographers, is to ... ...lainly, what every one well knows, of Burns’s profligacy, and of the fatal consequences of his marriage. And for this there are perhaps two subsidiary... ...r represent an act that was vir- tuous in itself, as attended by any other consequences than a large family and fortune. To hint that Burns’s marriage... ...timidly made elsewhere, have in them been carried boldly out to their last consequences; much that was indefinite in literary tenden- cies has attaine... ...from another point of view – to reproduce a colour, a sound, an outline, a logical argument, a physical action. He can show his readers, behind and ar... ...e nature of tragedy. The gospel according to Whitman, even if it be not so logical, has this advantage over the gospel according to Pangloss, that it ... ... the price we have to pay for cochineal. And with that murder- ous parody, logical optimism and the praises of the best of possible words went irrevoc... ... afternoon, or at morning as he lay awake in bed. With our deeper and more logical sense of life, we can have no idea how large a space in the attenti...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... erate care, and none ever had more certificates for less edu- cation. One consequence, however, of my system is that I have much less to say of Profe... ...n- sole; books of a large design, shadowing the complexity of that game of consequences to which we all sit down, the hanger-back not least. But the a... ...ng them indeed; but when they were done, I could see they were rubbish. In consequence, I very rarely showed them even to my friends; and such friends... ...r and answer arguments, not only with natural wisdom, but with candour and logical honesty. But if the subject of debate be something in the air, an a... ...t of debate be something in the air, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he ma...

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