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...e novel powers created by the nineteenth century, pointing out to you as a political monstrosity the fact that the prime minister is a man of no birth... ...s of no more deviation or change than their opinions on matters religious, political, moral, or literary. If a stranger is admitted to the cenacle, ev... ... the paternal park, which he intended to enclose with walls. No hopes of a political career, no fame on earth, can com- pare with such advantages as t... ... journey, one all-absorbing problem filled his mind—”Why did she go away?” Theories grew thickly on such ground for supposition, and naturally he incl...

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.... There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These ... ... small but definite ways bad. One thing I claim, I have got my beliefs and theories out of my life and not fitted them to its circumstances. As often ... .... In the world of ideas about me, I have found going on a great social and political movement that correlates itself with my conception of a great syn... ...eme. This movement is Socialism. Socialism is to me no clear-cut system of theories and dogmas; it is one of those solid and extensive and syn- thetic... ... Imperialists and Tariff Reformers, and I suppose that among the prominent political figures of to-day the nearest approach to my New Republi- cans is... ...p of the implica- tions of the propositions under discussion. The ordinary political Socialist desires, as I desire, and as I suppose every sane man d... ... not that our guns and ships are marvellously good, but that our press and political organizations are haphazard 105 H. G . Wells growths entirely in... ...ather like a sheep, emotional, hasty and shallow, the practical outcome of political democracy in all large commu- nities under modern conditions is t...

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...estant, because it has had no policy but that of negation; it inherits the theories of Lutherans, Cal- vinists, and Protestants on the terrible words ... ... her justification. The product of liberty of will, religious liberty, and political liberty (not, observe this, to be confounded with civil liberty) ... ...where power has no vigor; where election, the fruit of liberty of will and political liberty, lifts to the surface none but commonplace men; where bru... ... of will, ought not to teach the dogma of liberty of conscience, or demand political liberty. But, as no society can exist without guarantees granted ... ...Duc d’Orleans. The record of Marie dé Medici is heavier still. Neither had political genius. It was in the course of these studies that the writer ac-... ...we may clearly see in it the influence of thought. But before entering the political arena, where Catherine will be seen facing the two great difficul... ...eat and unknown kings, the rulers of this science, I stand for the ancient theories, not the new. I believe in the transforma- tions of matter which I... ...will be destroyed in turn by its material consequences, which will turn to theories in due time. Europe is at the present moment getting the better of... ...inces are still sending us worthy men who take a serious view of political theories and the history of France. It is a leaven which will rise.” “Is yo...

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...oned ac- cess to places of trust and profit. The magazine writer discussed theories of government; these men the practice. They had been there. They k... ... They knew all about it. They banged their fists on the table and spoke of political “pulls,” the vending of votes, and so forth. Theirs was not the t... ...rvice generally. He has been made a citizen with a vote, consequently both political par- ties play with him. But that is neither here nor there. He w... ...n assembled at feasts of Free Masons, and so forth. It is too tiny to be a political power. The immortal wreck of the Grand Army of the Republic is a ...

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...variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V ... ...he other hand, largely to fertilize the many occasions of agitation, which political fermentations are too sure to throw off. Let this chance turn out... ...s adul- terating with her principle, to an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the F... ...and the truth of facts has been so much forced to bend before preconceived theories, whereas every valid theory ought to be abstracted from the facts,... ...onal temper in every stage of their growth; whilst the third abstracts the political or the ethical moral, and unfolds the philosophy which knits the ... ... simply on the ground of its limited extent; contending that in public and political transactions, such as compose the matter of history, human nature...

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...hat it has any more bearing upon the essentials of religion, than have the theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to the sta... ... the muddle was at its very worst, the church was con- fronted by enormous political opportunities. In order that it should seize these one chief thin... ...e Sabellian or the Trinity of the Arian, any more than one thinks of those theories made stone, those gods with three heads and seven hands, who sit o... ...MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RE... ... RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION T HE CONCEPTION of a young and energetic God, an Invisib... ... dead as the lore of the Druids. The emancipation of mankind from obsolete theories and formularies may be accompanied by great tides of moral and emo... ...for promot- ing and watching education; associations for the discussion of political problems and the determination of right policies. In all these wa...

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...a good thing for France if this idea could be popularised. The benefits of political harmony are obvious to the least intelli- gent classes. Harmony i... ...ne man among them with the steel-en- compassed brains that can forge a new political system and begin a new career of glory for a nation. The Faubourg... ...e itself under a leader. And now it is easy to give a summary of this semi-political survey. The wish to re-establish a large fortune was upper- most ... ...iews, and a mass 31 Balzac of small defects, a real need of religion as a political factor, combined with a thirst for pleasure which damaged the cau... ...-dying, and would not so much as raise itself or stretch out a hand to any political physician; so well aware of its feeble- ness, or so conscious tha... ...enly set- ting him down a thousand miles away from the boudoir, discussing theories of absolute monarchy, which she defended to admiration. Few women ...

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...gress had intended to do great things for the Liberal Party,—or rather for political liberality in general,—and had in truth done little or nothing. I... ...en one of those who had hoped to find in the club a stepping-stone to high political life, and who now talked often with idle energy of the need for o... ...e Duch- ess may be explained, it must be stated that just at this time the political affairs of the nation had got themselves tied up into one of thos... ...re understand that the Duchess was asking her husband what place among the political rulers of the country had been offered to him by the last aspiran... ...se of Lords, he had,—as it is not uncommon in such cases,—accepted a lower political station. This had displeased the Duchess, who was ambitious both ... ...e an unsympathetic colleague. Our Duke consulted the old Duke, among whose theories of official life forbearance to all col- leagues and subordinates ... ..., or why the world, should go beyond the man’s own self. Such had been her theories as to men and their attributes, and acting on that, she had given ...

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...nt reason from society, and ceased to take any active interest in affairs, political or do- mestic. His wife, thus left mistress of her actions, felt ... ...vast, lurking ambitions that plunged him at a later day into the storms of political life. A face that might be called insignificantly pretty and care... ...and fact. His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promi... ...moralists and politicians. Time alone can pronounce upon the merits of his theories; but if his convictions have drawn him into paths in which none of... ...dau, and Fulgence Ridal performed the last duties to the dead, between two political fires. By night they buried their beloved in the cemetery of Pere... ... ‘Classics.’ The divergence of taste in matters literary and divergence of political opinion coin- cide; and the result is a war with weapons of every... ... correction of a line made upon the study always teaches more than all the theories and criticisms in the world. “What friends are these! What hearts!... ...captious critic, trying his best to find fault, has been obliged to invent theories for that purpose, and has drawn a distinction between two kinds of... ...d Lucien, making a faint attempt to cham- pion the brotherhood. “Y ou take theories of that sort for idle words,” said Felicien Vernou; “but a time co...

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... boy left Blois just at the time when Louis passed out of the college. The political events that ensued were then a sufficient excuse for this gentlem... ...n as child- ish. I at once spent several months in recalling the principal theories discovered by my poor schoolmate. Having collected my reminiscence... ...vity of his spirit feeding on it- self. Louis had sought for proofs of his theories in the history of great men, whose lives, as set forth by their bi... ...o each chapter in the form of demonstrations, so as to give to many of his theories an almost mathematical certainty . The works of Cardan, a man gift... ...le work of nature. He had too much good sense to dwell among the clouds of theories which can all be expressed in a few words. In our day, is not the ... ...aws and his system of government—for the Books of Moses are a reli- gious, political, and civil code—that character bears the au- thority of terror; c... ...d protection.” His kind heart did not therefore allow him to sympathize in political ideas; his system led rather to the passive obedi- ence of which ... ...t subtle genius can discover no common bond between great social facts. No political theory has ever lasted. Governments pass away, as men do, without...

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...cept in that mysterious, extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subtle change in the nature of the inspiration; a phenom... ...anges of government brought about by revolutions of the military type. The political atmosphere of the Republic was gen- erally stormy in these days. ... ... life of a dictator, together with the lives of a few Sulaco officials—the political chief, the director of the customs, and the head of police—belong... ...sa” in his slippers, muttering angrily to himself his contempt of the non- political nature of the riot, and shrugging his shoul- ders. In the end he ... ... and Foreign Bible Society, bound in a dark leather cover. In peri- ods of political adversity, in the pauses of silence when the revolutionists issue... ...beautiful living eyes, the peculiar gossip of the town, and the continuous political changes, the constant “saving of the country,” which to his wife ... ...e wisdom of the heart having no concern with the erection or demolition of theories any more than with the defence of prejudices, has no random words ...

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...ery gist and centrepoint of God’s creation, and demolishes our la- borious theories with a smile; in which our ideas are so bound up with the one mast... ...cean. We have no more than glimpses and touches; we are torn away from our theories; we are spun round and round and shown this or the other view of l... ... of bagmen in the country, but human beings are reckoned by number only in political constitutions. And the Admirals are typi- cal in the full force o... ...are more valuable to England than any material benefit in all the books of political economy between Westminster and Birmingham. Greenville chewing wi... ...ot possible to make it better.” It’s a pretty fair start, is it not, for a political trial? A little later, he has occasion to refer to the relations ... ... sphere of intellect, by which all things are transformed and seen through theories and associations as through coloured windows. We make to ourselves... ...onder, not always to admire, but to make and modify our little incongruous theories about life. It is no longer the uniform of a soldier that ar- rest...

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...victims to the present state of things as the nobil- ity themselves. After political overturn comes the overturn of morals. Alas! before long woman wo... ..., the management of public business in those days was by no means clean. A political spy, a stock-jobber, a contrac- tor, a man who confiscated in col... ... them. Thus, if the two old bachelors had not been kept asunder by the two political systems of which they each offered a living expression, their pri... ...ruminating, offered to his ambition, through the half of her property, the political career of a deputy. Besides, his marriage with the old maid would... ...selves young, and in a position to choose a husband. France knows that the political system of Napoleon resulted in making many widows. Under that re-... ... we are with myths. Myths are pressing us from every point; they serve all theories, they explain all questions. They are, according to human ideas, t...

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...mily, they preferred the provincial state of splendid squires to Court and political honours. They were renowned shots, long-limbed stalking sportsmen... ...hus, although King and Lords prove the existence of Commons in days of the political del- uge almost syllogistically, the example of not including one... ...s, a notorious one, a spouter of rank sedition and hater of aristocracy, a political poacher, managed to make himself heard. He was tossed to the Pres... ...t his table, in reply to commendations of his nephew: ‘Nevil’s leak is his political craze, and that seems to be go- ing: I hope it is. You can’t rear... ...oclamation is the word. I am your born representative! I have completed my political education on salt water, and I tackle you on the Land question. I... ...tainly wound her deeply. Her father is afraid of you, on the score of your theories. I foresee it: he will hear the scandal: he will imagine you as ba...

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... applied to pro- cesses current and in movement, or as taking the shape of theories applied to processes past and accomplished. The Mosaic cosmogony, ... ...l, by embarking his small capital of talent on the springtide of a furious political collision, brought back an ampler return for his little invest- m... ... decorous nation, and closely connected, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own d... ...f the public, not admitted to the secret—and equally exaggerated as to its political power by the government in the hush-money for its future suppres-... ...t the ‘master of sentences’ had become long since, in competition with the political economist. Yet, be assured, reader, that all the ‘ologies’ hither... ...here there was an affinity to do, but no means of doing it. The last great political act of Lord Wellesley, was the smashing of the Peel ministry in 1...

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...ross of the Legion of honor. I should not be on the highroad to becoming a political personage. Yes, you may shake your head, but if our affair succee... ...e bald-heads; hey! hey! Mimi? The demand for that article grows out of the political situation. A composition which will keep the hair in good health ... ...mer- cial interests showed him the death of trade in the Maxi- mum, and in political convulsions, which are always destruc- tive of business. Moreover... ... on the steps of Saint-Roch gave him the reputation of being mixed up with political secrets, and also of being a courageous man,—though he had no mil... ...an,—though he had no mili- tary courage in his heart, and not the smallest political idea in his brain. Upon these grounds the worthy people of the ar... ...ment all artists find in getting hold of a caricature which confirms their theories about the bourgeoisie. “When we have got our head under an umbrell...

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...ad of newspapers which he has under- taken to distribute. He receives this political bread with ea- gerness, takes it, bears it away. At nine o’clock ... ...interminable arguments. Almost all conveniently adopt social, literary, or political prejudices, to do away with the need of having opinions, just as ... ... adrift; the second take the mea- sure of the future, sound it, and see in political fidelity what the English see in commercial integrity, an element... ... the supreme praise accorded to those who have attained quibuscumque viis, political rank, a woman, or a fortune. Amongst them are to be found cer- ta... ... was dis- sipated in the atmosphere of that ardent soul, his hard and fast theories melted away, and happiness colored his exist- 62 The Girl with th...

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...on; it was impossible to complain of him, though he criticized frankly the political blunders by which both the throne and the clergy mutually comprom... ...rty, which the Saint-Simonians were already attacking under their abstract theories of political economy, went further. “Pere Pingret,” they said, “wa... ...he Saint-Simonians were already attacking under their abstract theories of political economy, went further. “Pere Pingret,” they said, “was the real a... ...ag- ments of my will; I gave myself to him whole. In one of those touching theories of pagan religion, the victim sacri- ficed to the false gods goes ... ...scheron was led to execution in a manner to satisfy both the pious and the political spirits of the town. Exemplary in behavior, pious and humble, he ... ...bso- lute, as those of to-day. I am in favor of low levels and slowness in political change; I dislike these social over- turns to which ambitious min... ...ankless soil, is far more useful in his genera- tion than he who seeks new theories for humanity. How, I ask you, has Newton’s science changed the con... ... true legislators since Jesus Christ, who, not having given to the world a political code, left his work incomplete. Before establishing great schools...

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...countenance no symptom whatever of irritation. “My daughter has her little theories,” Mrs. Church ob- served; “she has, I may say, her illusions. And ... ...he Herald is full of good news,” I said. “Can’t say it is. D-d bad news.” “Political,” I inquired, “or commercial?” “Oh, hang politics! It’s business,...

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...voids, and which breed of mass meetings he attends in order to broaden his political knowledge, and which breed of mass meetings he doesn’t attend, ex... ...s wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather. If he was seeking after political T ruth he found it in one or another of the hundred political gos... ...gh hough hough hough hought t t t t Young Man. It is odious. Those drunken theories of yours, advanced a while ago—concerning the rat and all that— st... ...ur gess has always found happiness and Adams unhappiness in these several political beliefs and in their migrations out of them. Both of these men ha... ... tian Science, now, with the customary result, the inevi table result. No political or religious belief can make Bur gess unhappy or the other man h... ...re absent, and this enables a nation to learn to accommodate itself to its political and religious circum stances and like them, be satisfied with th... ... the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures—an Eiffel Tower of arti ficialities rising sky high ...