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...nt; noth- ing would be allowed in such a story that did not, at the same time, expedite the progress of the fable, build up the characters, and strike... ... to watch and correct our own decisions, always holding back the hand from the least appearance of irrelevant dexterity, and reso- lutely fixed to beg... ...Mr. Thomson with something the tone of a man quot- ing. ‘Is that it?’ ‘T o say truth,’ said I, ‘I have only seen some dim reference to the things in m... ... plain, poor, hum-drum couple it would seem – but pathetic too, as the last of that stirring and brave house – and, to the country folk, faintly terri...

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...amateur philosophers,—all men indeed who are not spe- cialized students of philosophical subjects,—even if their philosophical enterprise goes no furt... ...a rough figure of what I am trying to convey in this first attack upon the philosophical validity of general terms. Y ou have seen the result of those... ...me for a stupidity—for a sort of intellectual pigheadedness. If you push a philosophical or metaphysical inquiry through a se- ries of valid syllogism... ...rocess and correct your adjustments. But not when you make what are called philosophical and theological inquiries, when you turn your implement towar... ...larly the case with many scientific in- vestigators, many sociological and philosophical workers, many artists, teachers and the like. Even when such ... ...se attempts of a number of people of very miscellaneous origins and social traditions to come together and work like one machine made the essential wa... ...istory, and the wealth of po- litical and literary and social and artistic traditions it aban- doned had subsequently to be revived and assimilated to... ...do such breaches of patience seem justifiable to me; for the most part our traditions of speech and intercourse altogether overdo separations, the pre...

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...ands of times in diverse ways, make Paris the most en- tertaining and most philosophical city in the world, I played a mental macedoine*, half jesting... ...ged that the Jesuits smiled at them. At last, if we are to believe college traditions, he was expelled because, while awaiting his turn to go to the c...

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...ous atmospheres of suffering and of intellect. Thus the most extraordinary traditions of hell and purgatory were quite naturally conceivable. He gave ... .... He hid his boldness under his immense learning, as with a cloak, and his philosophical bent under a saintly life. At this moment, after bringing his...

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...ly a question of how far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take ... ...-social and disastrous of all such restrictions—to destroy its disgraceful traditions of over-payment and fee-snatching, to insist upon 72 What Is Co... ...payment and fee-snatching, to insist upon 72 What Is Coming? a scientific philosophical training for its practitioners, to make the practice of advoc... ...ment of lawyer-politicians with no close family ties or intimate political traditions and prejudices. And its natural and proper corrective is the Pre... ...the Black Sea nations, the latter to all India. Disregarding ambitions and traditions, it is fairly obvious that such interna- tional places would be ... ... fundamental forces over which play the ambitions, treacheries, delusions, traditions, tyrannies of international politics. All boundaries will tend t... ...of the nine- teenth century it was the fashion to regard them as a race of philosophical incompetents. Their reputation as a people of exceptionally m...

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...heir notions on the great intellec- tual truths were in general simple and philosophical.** Although we have here traced the character of a primitive ... ...lle France”; “Lettres du Rev. G. Hecwelder;” “Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,” v. I; Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” pp. 135-190.... ...heir notions on the great intellec- tual truths were in general simple and philosophical.** Although we have here traced the character of a primitive ... ...lle France”; “Lettres du Rev. G. Hecwelder;” “Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,” v. I; Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” pp. 135-190.... ...rily, mingled habits and notions derived from their education and from the traditions of their country with those habits and notions which were exclus... ...rotects his property, his freedom, and his life; and when we recollect the traditions, the customs, the prejudices of local and familiar attachment *F... ...is united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past; those who cherish it love their country as they lov... ... upon the soil which they now occupy, and they brought neither customs nor traditions with them there; they meet each other for the first time with no... ...t. If we turn from their political and religious opinions to the moral and philosophical principles which regulate the daily actions of life and gover...

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...First and Last Things.” In this present book there is no further attack on philosophical or metaphysical questions. Here we work at a 5 H. G. Wells l... ...efs and imperatives and usages of the various Christian, pseudo-Christian, philosophical, and agnostic cults amidst which it has appeared. The writer’... ...gion—it would be better to say, the conflict of modern culture and ancient traditions—has robbed life of its plain significance. The men who, like Tol... ...is usually a man of some energy and ambition, his honour is moulded by the traditions of an ancient and antiquated profession, instinc- tively self-pr... ...uch confusion in people’s minds be- tween its text and the ancient Semitic traditions and usages retained by its followers; in places it may seem form... ...nd to form original congrega- tions, especially among people with European traditions. These dispositions mark a relapse from understanding. They are ...

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...he word ‘Sociology’ was invented by Herbert Spencer, a popular writer upon philosophical subjects, who flourished about the middle of the nineteenth c... ...part to maintain armies that sus- tained in their broader organisation the traditions of the European wars of thirty and forty years before. There was... ...n and a quar- ter of arguable soldiers upon the board of Welt-Politik. The traditions of Japan and the Central European armies were more princely and ... ...ealth and appliances, and leave gov- ernment and education to the rustling traditions of hun- dreds of years ago? Those traditions come from the dark ... ...authority, blind to the new possibilities and litigiously reliant upon the traditions of the past. Perhaps the most dangerous of those outworn traditi... ...ds of thousands, whose spirits were in rebellion against all these ancient traditions of flag and empire. Weren’t we, perhaps, already in the throes o...

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...ence-Man CHAPTER XXII. In the Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations “‘PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICE’—novel idea! But how did you come to drea... ...suit would permit; “well, then, sir, the peculiar principles, the strictly philosophical principles, I may say,” guardedly rising in dignity, as he gu... ...ce-Man forth in the sound, even, beautiful and permanent virtues.”’ “V ery philosophical again,” was the contemptuous reply— the outward contempt, per... ...e outward contempt, perhaps, proportioned to the inward misgiving. “Vastly philosophical, indeed, but tell me—to continue your analogy—since the secon... ...r, have I not already informed you that the quite new method, the strictly philosophical one, on which our office is founded, has led me and my associ... ...e Newgate Calendar or the Annals of Europe. In these Indian narratives and traditions the lad is thoroughly grounded. “ As the twig is bent the tree’s... ...r what kind of stimu- lus to it is furnished in those forest histories and traditions before spoken of. In which behalf, he would tell the story of th...

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...invariably do as we said. That, in his phrase- ology, was “maintaining the traditions of the school.” He had indeed an effect not of a man directing a... ...my private dreams, partly because I was a little antagonised by the family traditions 59 H G Wells that ran through the school. I was made to feel at... ...derneath, ‘With which is incorporated the Observer.’ That picks up the old traditions, makes an appeal to old boys and all that, and it gives us somet... ...ng in—what is the word?—muliebrity. She had cour- age and initiative and a philosophical way of handling ques- tions, and she could be bored by regula... ...was an Hegelian mess of which I had partaken at Codger’s table by way of a philosophical training, my sym- pathies have always been Pragmatist. I belo... ... what I should do; they felt I had reserves of experience and incalculable traditions. Close to us were the Cramptons, Willie Crampton, who has since ... ...on of a constructive dream capable of sus- taining a great educational and philosophical movement such as no formula of Liberalism supplied. The fact ... ... and as if it was quite a small matter, I set my- self to secure a uniform philosophical quality in our columns. That, indeed, was the peculiar virtue... ...touched to flaccidity by her pen or mine…. I was at great pains to give my philosophical, political, and social matter the best literary and critical ...

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...; from which I infer it is at least innocent, if not commendable. W e have traditions among us of the enjoyments of our prede- cessors, as they rioted... ...bre, as to render the selection little desirable. In the end we wisely and philosophically determined to await the result with pa- tience, well knowin... ...he cote gauche. Thus completely deranged as parties, we took to discussing philosophical matters in general; an occupation well adapted to a situation... ...has bound my heart to them to all eternity; and I will now proceed with my philosophical and profound disquisitions on what I have seen, with a perfec... ...ver was a pocket-handker- chief so miserable, and that, too, on grounds so philosophical and profound, met with, on its entrance into active life. I d... ...be envy—repinings at another’s better fortunes—or they might be excited by philosophical and com- mendable reflections touching those follies which so...

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...m to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free… I fear that trying to be conversational ... ... no longer living. That very year of our travels he took his degree of the Philosophical Faculty—and only then his true vocation declared itself. Obed... ...uthors of the eighteenth century. In him Christian charity was joined to a philosophical indul- gence for the failings of human nature. But the memory... ... could you expect from running up against Russia?” He was capable, too, of philosophical reflections. “Look at your Napoleon now. A great man. There i... ...in a complete scheme of delicate shades and crude colours by the inherited traditions, beliefs, or preju- dices—unaccountable, despotic, persuasive, a...

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...umfries, to whose unwearied industry I have been indebted for many curious traditions and points of antiquarian interest. It was Mr. Train who brought... ...he friend of my childhood, who first introduced me to the Highlands, their traditions, and their manners—had been engaged actively in the troubles of ... ...ter Scott companied. I then made an effort to turn my thoughts into a more philosophical current, and muttered half aloud, as a charm to lull any more... ..., Let us be fix’d, and our own masters still.”] In my anxiety to fix the philosophical precept in my mind, I recited the last line aloud, which, joi... ...achie, I assure you, nor monk nor hermit, the approved authorities for old traditions. Donald was as good a postilion as ever drove a chaise and pair ... ...ugmented by an unusual acquain- tance with the songs of ancient bards, and traditions of the most approved seannachies and tellers of tales. Her offic... ... 207 Sir Walter Scott Note 3.—IRON RASP . The ingenious Mr. R. Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh give the following account of the forgotten rasp or...

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...r in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, where the spirit of the ancient court and traditions of by- gone feuds between the nobles and the Crown still lingere... ...ted so absurdly to visitors at the Palais Royal. T wo or three kept up the traditions of the Re- gency, filling cleverer women with something like dis... ...short, Armand de Montriveau was one of many great men unknown to fame, and philosophical enough to despise it; living with- out attaching themselves t... ... sure to compound with the Liberals and allow them to argue and talk. This philosophical cant will be just as dangerous now for the younger brother as...

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... to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and danger from which a philosophical mind should be free… . I fear that trying to be conversationa... ...uthors of the eighteenth century. In him Christian charity was joined to a philosophical indulgence for the failings of human nature. But the memory o... ... could you expect from running up against Russia?” He was capable, too, of philosophical reflections. “Look at your Napoleon now. A great man. There i... ...in a complete scheme of delicate shades and crude colours by the inherited traditions, beliefs, or preju- dices—unaccountable, despotic, persuasive, a...

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...by over a century the slow march of human science. It suffices to read his philosophical and mineralogical works to be convinced of this. In one pas- ... ..., “behold him! here are seven- teen works from his pen, of which one, his ‘Philosophical and Mineralogical Works,’ published in 1734, is in three 40 ... ...work on the Astral Regions, has never been published; it is among the oral traditions left by Swedenborg to the three disciples who were nearest to hi... ...rases which are often commonplace. “Bah!” said the worthy pastor, making a philosophical gri- mace as he spread a layer of salt butter on his slice of...

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...the most tedious thing in the world (unless it be the reports of it in the Philosophical Transac- tions), and it seemed a long time to Mr. Bensington ... ... the most amazing, the greatness or the littleness of these scientific and philosophical men. You figure him there on the Pantiles, in the overcoat tr... ...ad gone to an ivy-clad public school in its anecdotage, with magnifi- cent traditions, aristocratic associations, and no chemical laboratories, and pr... ...thers, of the slow growth of venerable institutions, of moral and so- cial traditions, that fitted our English national characteris- 136 The Food of ... ... To him all that we hold dear and sacred is nothing. Nothing! The splendid traditions of our race and land, the noble institutions, the venerable or- ...

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...contested election; and a horse-keeper, ostler, or helper, was held by the philosophical at that time to be the most corrupt character in the nation. ... ...s known to have hunted there. That, of itself, was a grand incident in the traditions of a forest or a chase. In these vast forests, also, were to be ... ...h Sir Roger de Coverley that a good deal might be said on both sides. Such traditions, or any others that (like the stag) connect distant generations ... ... p. 16, where additions are made to the following account from Hardwicke’s Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore, Manchester and London, 1872, p. 1...

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...enth century, the Claes remained faithful to the man- ners and customs and traditions of their ancestors. They married into none but the purest burghe... ...rocession,—Gayant, the supersti- tious luck of Douai, the glory of Flemish traditions, intro- duced there at the time the Claes family had emigrated f... ...nature marked his attentions with the charm of grace. Though he shared the philosophical tenets of the eighteenth century, he installed a chaplain in ... ...ndrilled branches twined about the casements. “You are faithful to the old traditions, madame,” said Pierquin, as he received a plate of that celebrat... ...air, involving thought and care and active correspondence, in a land where traditions of hos- pitality put the family honor so much at stake that to s...

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... people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for philosophical purposes. Of this out of ten thousand instances that I might ... ...known to have hunted there. That, of it- self, was a grand incident in the traditions of a forest or a chase. In these vast forests, also, were to be ... ...h Sir Roger de Coverley that a good deal might be said on both sides. Such traditions, or any others that (like the stag) connect distant generations ... ... sur-rebribed; so that a horse- keeper, ostler, or helper, was held by the philosophical at that time to be the most corrupt character in the nation. ...