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...ntain for all times and all peoples. There is nothing peculiarly racial or local in them. The ennobling lessons of these Scriptures are as practical f... ...ed as popular Scrip- tures. They grew up essentially as text books of God- knowledge and Self-knowledge, and like all text books they need interpretat... ... protection. It is not possible to comprehend the subtle 8 The Upanishads problems of life unless the thought is tranquil and the energy concentrated... ...rary happiness and must inevitably bind a man unless through them he gains knowledge of his real Self. To help him acquire this knowledge is the aim ... ...interpreted by the great com- mentator Sankaracharya as “protect,” because knowledge of our true Self is the greatest protector and sustainer. If we d...

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...y, Bromstead, which is now a borough, was ruled by a strange body called a Local Board—it was the Age of Boards—and I still remember indistinctly my f... ... school-books. These things it was felt must be provided by individual and local effort, and since it was manifest that it was individual and local ef... ...iests in the established church Science Teachers ex officio, and leav- ing local and private enterprise to provide schools, diagrams, books, material,... ...roduce text-books that should supply exactly the quantity and qual- ity of knowledge necessary for every stage of each of five and twenty subjects int... ...bing my time and interest, and I never acquired that detailed and intimate knowledge of Penge and the hilly villadom round about, that I have of the t... ...ted that it was impossible to write good En- glish without an illuminating knowledge of the classic tongues, and he split an infinitive and failed to ... ...ittle increments of realisation it was that the profounder verities of the problem of socialism came to me. It helped me very much that I had to go do... ...s full of her, and I found it necessary to talk about her. So I made her a problem in sociology. “Who the deuce are these people?” I said, and how do ... ... her duty to every one about them there would be no difficulty with social problems at all, that over and above all enactments we needed moral changes...

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...at had already been subjected to misconstruction and severe reproof in the local press of Princhester. But the haunting thing in the bishop’s memory w... ...a number of strong-willed self-made men of wealth and in- fluence, full of local patriotism and that competitive spirit which has made England what it... ... two miles from Pringle, before he realized the strength and fury of these local ambitions. At first the magnates and influences seemed to be fighting... ...ral—to the place where the trains met? Interweaving with such thoughts the problem of Eleanor rose again into his consciousness. Weren’t there books s... ...of referring the young man to Canon Bliss (of Pringle), “who has a special knowledge quite beyond my own in this field.” But he knew from the young ma... ... of erudition that greatly fatigued the bishop. He had a very fair general knowledge of vestments, but he had never really cared for anything but the ... ...ontemplating dissertations. “Of course,” he said, as though he discussed a problem with himself, “you must have some sort of comfort. Y ou must get ou... ...ovels of Sir Walter Scott by heart and had the minutest and most unsparing knowledge of ev- ery detail in the life of that supreme giant of English li... ...mediate golden presence of God; he was no longer dazzled nor ecstatic; his problem had diminished to the scale of any other great human problem, to th...

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...f interest now; the thesis that because of the develop- ment of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no ... ...y amidst a world-wide disre- gard to make impotent gestures at the leading problems of the debacle. Either the disaster has not been vast enough yet o... ... There began a division of labour, certain of the older men specialised in knowledge and direction, a strong man took the fatherly leadership in war, ... ...pons and tactics of warfare, the methods of agriculture, seamanship, their knowledge of the habitable globe, or the devices and utensils of domestic l... ...ERGY GY GY GY GY S S S S Section I ection I ection I ection I ection I THE PROBLEM which was already being mooted by such scien- tific men as Ramsay, ... ...therford, and Soddy, in the very be- ginning of the twentieth century, the problem of inducing radio-activity in the heavier elements and so tapping t... ...eat conceptions of its universal rule. It made no wrangling attacks on the local, racial, and sectarian forms of religious profession that at that tim...

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...f her own swimming, and became daring and amusing at her difficulties with local feeling when first she swam in the pond. The high road ran along the ... ...ewed the village dressmaker, when Sir Godfrey insisted upon her supporting local industries. It was very amusing but tech- nical. The devil had put it... ...aid Sir Godfrey. “That is another question. But speaking with some special knowledge, I should say that on the whole the people who are on the top of ... ... Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed, the greater part of mankind from the problem—might become the other…. All of which is recorded here, without exc... ...ve association to the Balkans, rub up their Greek together, and settle the problem of Albania. He wanted, he said, a foreign speciality to balance his... ...uite imperceptibly that he was drawn into the discussion of modern ethical problems. She herself was a rather stimulating instance of modern ethical p... ...y hand or my memory, and secondly that it is not altogether mine. Whatever knowledge I have of the quality of science, whatever will I have towards ri... ...ning or demonstration or reproof of some one else, there comes to me clear knowledge, clarified will, that also is as it were a part of my aristocrati... ...lack soldiers, and passed through a firelit crowd into the presence of the local commandant to dispute volubly about their right to go further. They m...

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...ers, for the mind of man? It is writ- ten, “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Surely the plain rule is, Let each considera... ...with great circumlocution, hinted at the practicability of conveying “some knowledge of it, and of him, to England, and through England to the dis- ta... ...of any kind; sometimes, with reference to his great historic and statistic knowledge, and the vivid way he had of expressing himself like an eye- witn... ...t Argument that had taught him, but Experi- ence. At present it is only in local glimpses, and by sig- nificant fragments, picked often at wide-enough... ...tous sur- mise. Meanwhile, for Andreas and his wife, the grand prac- tical problem was: What to do with this little sleeping red-colored Infant? Amid ... ...illustrative primordial elements of the Clothes-Philosophy, becomes such a problem as the reader may imagine. So much we can see; darkly, as through t... ...combination of these two, a certain maximum of Capability. But the hardest problem were ever this first: To find by study of yourself, and of the grou... ...ed.” Might we not also conjecture that the following passage refers to his Locality, during this same “healing sleep;” that his Pilgrim-staff lies cas...

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...the apology was made, and he retained his position. The affair came to the knowledge of two of the masters, Mr. Dupuis and Mr. Abraham, and they grati... ...re far too easy, with no opportunity for a pretty good scholar to show his knowledge, ‘the ridicule of every one of the masters,’ but the other papers... ...ard, but I have not been continuously improving, and adding knowl- edge to knowledge, half by half. I feel it now, because I am sure that I know very ... ...ether, summoning the people to attend the various schools planted in every locality, under the management of native teachers, and we had a good op- po... ...t. Pere Montrouzier lent, and finally gave, Martinet’s ‘Solution de Grands Problemes,’ which Patteson calls ‘a very interesting book, with a great dea... ...elf had shrunk from entertain- ing it. The first great change regarded the locality of the Melanesian school in New Zealand. Repeated experience had s... ...summer in New Zealand. Their names were Petere and Laure; the former was a local chief of some consequence. We took a peculiar interest in this island... ...a new lan- guage, it is a great gain to have even partially worked out the problem, “What words shall I try to get from this fellow?” Now I go straigh... ...eness would make their present self-government possible; and it is a great problem how to deal with them. The English party who were to take up their ...

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...and secure? Or placid chateaux ringed with sullen huts? Youth free to find knowledge and laughter? Willingness to sift the sanctified lies? Or creamy-... ...ch comes most depressingly in the midst of many people she tried to forget problems, to look at the prairie objectively. The grass beside the railroad... ...t prominent citizens gathered to greet the lovely new bride of our popular local physician, Dr. Will Kennicott. All present spoke of the many charms o... ...ld be only a while now before she provided the town with fan- lights and a knowledge of Galsworthy. She was doing things! As she served the emergency ... ...ed, “They’re ungrateful, all that class of people. I do think the domestic problem is sim- ply becoming awful. I don’t know what the country’s com- in... ...ous.” “I wonder the same thing. Only answer I can get is the old saw about knowledge being power. And some day you’ll see how absorbing it is to have ... ...hat are springing up today—whether it’s chemistry or anthropology or labor problems—the things that are go- ing to mean so terribly much.” Everybody c... ...owns may be as obso- lete as monasteries. I can imagine the farmer and his local store-manager going by monorail, at the end of the day, into a city m... ...young lover-girls you better look out, remember the doc is a bachelor. The local Four Hundred also report that he is a great hand at shaking the light...

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... or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair, who had successfully solved it in her own ... ...hering him, and that he needed the afternoons to turn over in solitude the problems left from the morning’s work. Certainly the book was not going as ... ...rous of having it immediately known that his intrusion is involuntary. The local fame of Lyng occasionally attracted the more intelligent sight-seer, ... ...ons of the outlay to which the morning’s conference had committed her. The knowledge that she could permit her- self such follies had not yet lost its... ...neighboring villages, or on the road across the downs, or at either of the local railway-stations. The sunny English noon had swallowed him as complet... ...but inevitably crowded out of the foreground of conscious- ness by the new problems perpetually bubbling up from the vaporous caldron of human experie... ...lub, after three or four winters of lunching and debate, had acquired such local distinction that the entertainment of distinguished strangers became ... ...e?” “What do you call the surest means of self-defence?” “Some preliminary knowledge of human nature in its relation to the marriage tie.” She made an...

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...esults of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, ... ...f the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cu- p... ...of the house; all were alike threadbare. The color of the men’s coats were problematical; such shoes, in more fashionable quarters, are only to be see... ...er father was persuaded that he had sufficient reason for declining to ac- knowledge her, and allowed her a bare six hundred francs a year; he had fur... ...p her ward to be devout. She was right; religion offered a solution of the problem of the young girl’s future. The poor child loved the father who ref... ...ortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them cold to the most terrible anguish in othe... ... life I could not raise so large a sum a second time without your father’s knowledge, and there would be trouble about it. We should be obliged to mor... ...! Oh! yes, dear Eugene, you must suc- ceed. I have come, through you, to a knowledge of a pain so sharp that I do not think I could endure it a second... ... news into provincial districts twenty-four hours sooner than the ordinary local journals. “There is a wonderful history in it,” said the house studen...

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...lope and crisp clinging oiled paper from the new blade. Then there was the problem, oft-pondered, never solved, of what to do with the old blade, whic... ...siasm. Mr. Gunch was president of the Boosters’ Club, a weekly lunch-club, local chapter of a national organization which promoted sound business and ... ...actly what I mean! To a salesman with a love for his profession, it’s hard problems like that that inspire him to do his best. Besides, Stan—Matter o’... ...ling slobs in this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered boo... ...volved confi- dence, he admitted them to the arcanum: “I’ve got a literary problem that’s worrying me to death. I’m doing a series of ads for the Zeec... ...t on lugs about being ‘professional men. ’ A good realtor has to have more knowledge and finesse than any of ‘em.” “Right you are! I say: Why don’t yo... ...it? Why, it’s the public service and the skill, the trained skill, and the knowledge and, uh, all that, whereas a fellow that merely goes out for the ... ...tates, but Zenith was less interested in the national campaign than in the local election. Seneca Doane, though he was a lawyer and a graduate of the ... ...n Church in lovely Flo- ral Heights, is a wizard soul-winner. He holds the local record for conversions. During his shepherdhood an aver- age of almos...

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...e of birth and burial, creates a kin dred between the human being and the locality, quite inde pendent of any charm in the scenery or moral circumst... ...le. I knew it, too, but could never quite find in my heart to act upon the knowledge. Much and deservedly to my own discredit, there fore, and consid... ... gone regularly through the office. Borne on such queer vehicle of fame, a knowledge of my existence, so far as a name conveys it, was carried where i... ...tchings of the pen. Yet not altogether worthless, perhaps, as materials of local history. Here, no doubt, statistics of the former com merce of Salem... ...ly kept in his official desk, 26 The Scarlet Letter had never come to the knowledge of his heirs, or were sup posed to relate to the business of the... ...ce—seems to have devoted some of his many leisure hours to researches as a local antiquarian, and other inquisitions of a similar na ture. These supp... ...on involved no more than the air drawn lines and figures of a geometrical problem, instead of human passions, and wrongs inflicted on himself. But, a... ...l intelligent beings, who will stand waiting, on that day, to see the dark problem of this life made plain. A knowledge of men’s hearts will be needfu... ...owledge of men’s hearts will be needful to the completest solution of that problem. And, I conceive moreover, that the hearts holding such miserable s...

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...is narrative after having, without the smallest regard for romanticism and local color, baptized the young French surgeon with a Teutonic name.] By th... ...ord managed these obstacles and opened the window. As I am now speaking of localities, this is the place to de- scribe to you the interior arrangement... ...e- scribe to you the interior arrangements of the inn; for, on an accurate knowledge of the premises depends an understand- ing of my tale. The public... ...on, one of whom has the right to hate or despise the other, whether from a knowledge of some private and latent fact which de- grades him, or of a sec... ... a sanhedrim of sound consciences, and obtain from them some light on this problem of high morality and philosophy,—a problem which had been, as we sh... ... the marriage, and secret unanimity to sanction it! How shall I solve that problem?” “Where does the father-in-law live?” asked one my school- friends...

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... to the attention of philosophers by the manner in which he had solved the problem of an idle life and a busy life, so as to make the idleness profita... ...o-do state of life into poverty. This man, whose practical information and knowledge of reading and writing placed him far above his fellow-workmen, w... ...his pay in kind. The compound of his active and negative qualities and his knowledge of how to manage matters got him the custom of the canton, to the... ... of the peas- antry, the sons of the soil. The Revolution affected certain localities more than others. This side of Burgundy, nearest to Paris, is on... ...le persons in all France. Such community of interests, based on the mutual knowledge of the secret spots on the white garment of con- science, is one ... ...t condescend. A land-steward must understand surveying, the customs of the locality, the methods of sale and of labor, together with a little quibblin... ...ple. As the salary of his office seldom exceeds three thousand francs, the problem seems insoluble. How is it possible to obtain so many qualifica- ti... ...e steward who thinks of himself only. To represent the third figure of the problem would be to hold up to public admiration a very unlikely personage,... ... borders of Upper Burgundy, where it is differently corrupted according to locality. “He’ll go back to it when beaten,” said Gaubertin, “and 102 Sons...

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...was the only barrister, solicitors pleading their own cases in these petty localities. The young man had really secured certain triumphs in the court ... ...isterial candidate than Charles Keller. Any other man would find the whole local patriotism of the place arrayed against him. “Will they really elect ... ...the patron of the people of Arcis. “What is that?” asked the sub-prefect. “Local patriotism is always bitterly against a man who is imposed upon the e... ...n exclamation which seemed to them big with meaning and implying a certain knowledge of the plans of the Beauvisage family. All Arcis was now in a com... ...t each architect, or each burgher, has endeavored to solve for himself the problem of styles of building. The bridge at Arcis is of wood. About four h... ...other side of the road leading to Brienne. There- fore the solution of the problem could be rapid. Antonin Goulard returned to his place by Cecile to ... ...to know a man’s name, electorally speaking, is a good begin- ning toward a knowledge of the man himself. Passing from indifferent to interested electo... ...r not thank him without incurring self-reproach? 103 Balzac Those are the problems submitted to your wisdom. If you will do me the kindness to solve ... ...rie-Gaston by the will of his wife is so little desired by him that, to my knowledge, he is about to spend a sum of two or three hundred thousand fran...

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...c cos- tumes and a mixture of individuals belonging to so many and diverse localities and professions that it will be well to describe their character... ...eir characteristic differences, in order to give to this history the vivid local coloring to which so much value is attached in these days,—though som... ... the growing disaffection along the route made the success of this measure problematical. This old officer, who, under instruction of his superiors, k... ... the inhabitants of this region more impov- erished as to all intellectual knowledge than the Redskins, but also as proud, as crafty, and as enduring ... ... road to Mayenne cut off by the king’s men.” * * * The strategical problem which troubled the commandant was causing quite as much uneasiness ... ...r your learning, my lad; it isn’t an emblem— 52 The Chouans it’s called a problem. I’ve served in the artillery ,” continued Beau- Pied, “and problem... ...ence of its commander; the old soldier’s frankness of nature had made this knowledge so easy that the veriest little drummer-boy knew his Hulot by hea... ...oked at each other for a moment speechless,— Francine at revealing so much knowledge of life, and Marie 83 Balzac at the perception, which now came t... ...cs, et cetera, of the insurgent departments, and particularly those of the localities in which the ci-devant Marquis de Montauran, leader of the briga...

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... batant there is a turn of phrase, like a dimple near the lips showing her knowledge that she was uttering but a tart mea- sure of the truth. She had ... ... difficulties through his own sanguine hues. He is the musical poet of the problem, demanding merely to have it solved that he may sing: clear proof o... ...ether divers shreds of correspon- dence and testing them with her intimate knowledge of Diana’s character, Lady Dunstane conceived that the unpro- tec... ...for any position: he could speak really eloquently; she had heard him at a local meeting. And he loved the old Crossways almost as much as she did. ‘H... ...y natural weapons and my cause. It must be confessed that I have also more knowledge of men and the secret contempt—it must be—the best of them entert... ...uccessful; perhaps; we exclude extremes in our calcula- tions of the still problematical.’ ‘I am sure,’ said she, ‘you always have faith in your calcu... ...em peri- odically to the newspapers!’ ‘Well, I started them in their natal locality. I saw them, go- ing down the churchyard, and bellowed after them ... ...for each has the specific. But they show us their way of solving the great problem, and we ought to thank them, though one or the other abominate us. ... ...he post of Irish Secretary must be won by real service founded on absolute local knowledge. Yes, and sympathy, if you like; but sympathy is for provin...

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... continually calculating the chances of a career which at that time looked problematical enough; though his choice of Mme. de Chaulieu (a woman past f... ..., and exactly at the right angle. Mme. de Bargeton had solved this curious problem at sight. A dainty girdle outlined her slender waist. She had adopt... ...g girl, gets up shirts to admiration, and is just about to be married to a local printer named Sechard. Such is the world! You no sooner show yourself... ..., alone in his chamber, an idea occurred to him which threw a light on the problem of his existence at the Gaillard-Bois, where he lived on the plaine... ...ad. After some private opposition, overcome by d’Arthez with- out Lucien’s knowledge, the newcomer was at length judged worthy to make one of the cena... ...hese two, both marked by death, and unknown to- day in spite of their wide knowledge and their genius, stands 65 Balzac a third, Michel Chrestien, th... ... to know through your dear letter. So I have drawn this bill without Eve’s knowledge, and I will contrive somehow to meet it when the time comes. Keep... ... about art, and described the pic- turesque aspects of the country and the local color. Then the critic bewails himself. Politics are intruded everywh... ... a permanent secretary to draw up the minutes for me. It will be a kind of local branch of the Academie, and the Academicians will be better paid in t...

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...a purpose—serious civil ceremonious curious stiff, stuffed 4 Pandora with knowledge and convinced that, as lately rearranged, the German Empire place... ...—and save, further, the fact that the male sex wasn’t terrible to her. The local stamp sharply, as he gathered, impressed upon her he estimated indeed... ...’s expressions struck him as singular, but of course, as he was aware, his knowledge of English was not nice enough to give him a perfect measure. “I’... ...onnycastle once told the wife of a foreign minister. They solved all their problems successfully, including those of knowing none of the people they d... ...her mind; she looked at the historical pictures, at the uncanny statues of local worthies, presented by the different States—they were of different si... ... occurred to him was to ask her as by chance whether Miss Day were, to her knowledge, engaged. Mrs. Steuben turned her Southern eyes upon him with a l...

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...her Washington or Broadway. Here are the blacksmith’s, the chemist’s, the general merchant’s, and Kong Sam Kee, the Chinese laundryman’s; here, prob- ... ... music for the mind. Here, also, earth’s cream was being skimmed and garnered; and the London customers can taste, such as it is, the tang of the eart... ...nto a ready-made house. And to the British merchant, sitting at home at ease, it may appear that, with such a roof over your head and a spring of clea... ...lley, skirt- ing the eastern foothills; then we struck off to the right, through haugh-land, and presently, crossing a dry wa- ter-course, entered the... ...; of her honest, country-woman troubles and alarms upon the journey; how in the bank at Frankfort she had feared lest the banker, after having taken h... ...ndeed, but my wife had left her keys in Calistoga. There was the stove, but, alas! our carriers had forgot the chimney, and lost one of the plates alo... ...e that I ever set my eyes on. Nothing that he did became him; and yet you were conscious that he was one of your own race, that his mind was cumbrousl...