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...mise a gift, a silver mirror from Serfo’s shop, one with suitably naughty figures on the back and handle: “the convivialists,” Serfo has named it. T... ...er, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see ... ...rld is still here. I wish I could remember his...his faith...” Taking the figures from Alcaeus, I put them on a table between us: we three had sat a... ... Romans have crucified as many as two thousand men at one time because of religious dedication. Al- most every single one of us has witnessed a cruci... ...drawing. Queer how memory is: I can see that messy workshop, easels, clay figures on stands, rags, canvases, frames, chisels, pigments, brushes... I... ...mel’s head. Francesco VOICES FROM THE PAST 286 is to impersonate a Hindu seer. Countess Benci—sixteen years old—will be na- ked except for sil... ...say it briefly, is the dignity of man. White House May 9 Can a truly religious person support war, I query? I am my brother’s keeper, I am ins...

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............................................................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF ?THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE? ............................................................................................................................................................ 508...

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...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publica... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsyl... ... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” ...................................................... ...ular science evolutionism of which I have re- cently spoken; and, finally, Hinduism has contributed a strain. But the most characteristic feature of t... ...onsciousness: yet there is found in each field a part, or sub-field, which figures as focal and contains the excitement, and from which, as from a cen... ...are certainly not mere derivatives of theism. We find them in Stoicism, in Hinduism, and in Buddhism in the highest possible degree. They har- monize ... ...o give way to the facts and du- ties of the moment which came after.”[175] Hindu- [173] Claparede et Goty: Deux Heroines de la Foi, Paris, 1880, p. 11... ... any scheme of the whole. The astronomer abridges the row of be- wildering figures by increasing his unit of measure- ment: so may we reduce the distr... ...in their favors. Then the transport rises from the perception of forms and figures to a degree which escapes all expression, and which no man may seek...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements t...

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...ACE CE CE CE CE THIS BOOK sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; i... ...ed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is well to prepare the prospective reade... ...ed, was one of the most disas- trous and one of the least venerable of all religious gather- ings, and he holds that the Alexandrine speculations whic... ... scorn nor hate for those who have accepted the many-handed symbols of the Hindu or the lac- quered idols of China. Where there is faith, where there ... ... our eyes to the absurdity of a time-worn immortal. Jove too and Wotan are figures far past the prime of their vigour. These are gods after the ancien... ...world. It is not the spirit of the Sikh nor of these newer developments of Hindu thought. It has never been the spirit of Japan. To-day less than ever...

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...s–trou sers, a shirt and a battered hat. Kim found it easier to slip into Hindu or Mo hammedan garb when engaged on certain businesses. One of the yo... ...ell on the night of the earth quake had once given him a complete suit of Hindu kit, the costume of a lowcaste street boy, and Kim stored it in a sec... ...d out from shouting at the heels of a marriage procession, or yelling at a Hindu festival. Sometimes there was food in the house, more often there was... ... old man followed and halted amazed. In the entrance hall stood the larger figures of the Greco Buddhist sculptures done, savants know how long since,... ...ously transmitted Grecian touch. There were hundreds of pieces, friezes of figures in relief, fragments of statues and slabs crowded with figures that... ...ed behind the thick trunks in the cool dark of the mango tope. T wo little figures halted; the other two came forward uncertainly. They were the advan... ...n Bennett’s eye that promised ill for Kim when he should be relaxed to the religious arm. ‘A Sahib and the son of a Sahib –’ The lama’s voice was hars... ...ye’re not lost or mislaid anywhere on the road. I’ve given you a notion of religious matters,–at least I hope so,–and you’ll remember, when they ask y... ...s when a tonga swung round a curve; the halts for prayers (Mahbub was very religious in dry washings and bellowings when time did not press); the even...

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...uble must be heavy upon him. I climbed one of the bastions and watched the figures of the Three Musketeers grow smaller and smaller across the plain. ... ...t down the Perfect Pearl to bring. Lo, I have made in common clay Rude figures of a rough-hewn race; For Pearls strew not the market-place In ... ... if you don’t. CAPT. G. Thanks. I say, Pussy, I don’t know much about your religious beliefs. You were brought up to believe in a heaven and all that,... ...e my name a laughing-stock among the women of Little Malikand. I went into Hindustan at the end of two months—to Cherat. I was gone twelve days only; ... ...te; else why should I, a Musalman and the son of a Musalman, have sought a Hindu woman—a widow of the Hindus—the sister of the headman of Pateera? But... ... husband had died, and I saw Her again in the bullock- cart. By God, these Hindus are fools! What was it to me whether She was Hindu or Jain—scavenger... ...Mu- hammadans, was close at hand, and the things that W ali Dad said about religious fanaticism would have secured his ex- pulsion from the loosest-th... ...‘He is a landholder of Akala. He should not be in a big City when there is religious excitement. But I have a carriage here. You are quite truly kind....

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.... Now, in the whole of Upper India, there is only one man who can pass for Hindu or Mohammedan, chamar or faquir, as he pleases. He is feared and resp... ... knew the Lizard-Song of the Sansis, and the Halli- Hukk dance, which is a religious can-can of a startling kind. When a man knows who dances the Hall... ...g nothing of the Collector-Sahib for some time, and heartily despising the Hindu Sub-Judge, arranged to start a little Mohurrum riot of their own. But... ... Sub-Judge, arranged to start a little Mohurrum riot of their own. But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant... ...g which this particular lip-strap had belonged. Otherwise he was painfully religious. Platte and the Colonel were dressing at the Club—both late for t... ... thing; each man taking the other’s watch. Y ou may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purp... ... caste in the Derajat. Nafferton filed that bundle, and explained that the figures which he wanted referred to the Cis-Sutlej states, where he underst...

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... and lay preacher in the lumber camps who is of noble character and deeply religious. An earnest and practical laborer in the New York slums comes up ... ...t is in him, though it cost him his life. An other man, just as sincerely religious, but of different tem perament, will fail of that duty, though r... ...akers Episcopalians, and the Episcopalians Mil lerites and the Millerites Hindus, and the Hindus Atheists, and the Atheists Spiritualists, and the Sp... ...n—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s religious complexion, you know what sort of reli gious books he reads when... ...niards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame religions, every kind of govern... ...tting mixed together. Dates are hard to remember be cause they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don’t ... ...d in ink on my ten finger nails. But it didn’t answer. I kept track of the figures for a while; then I lost it, and after that I was never quite sure ... ... Mark T wain 101 shut your eyes and see the picture and call the words and figures, then turn the sample and copy upside down and make the next copy f... ...ty or condition of irreverence toward God and sacred things. What does the Hindu say? He says it is correct. He says irreverence is lack of respect fo...

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...ly in physical but in mental things. A boy named Prothero set a fashion of religious discussion in the school, and Benham, after some self-examination... ...regular line, glowed the ruddy smoky fires of the men. One or two turbaned figures still flitted about, and there was a voice—low, monotonous—it must ... ... blotted out the heavens. He felt like one of those unfortunate victims of religious mania who are convinced they have committed the Sin against the H... ...ospitality would do no harm; Benham and Amanda sat up and various romantic figures with splendid moustaches came forward and shook hands with him, mod... ... me a child!” he whispered, profoundly moved. 193 H G Wells 8 8 8 8 8 The Hindu agitators at the cavernous dinner under the House of Commons came to ... ... You brought it on yourself. Well—I am—inflamed. I have no strong moral or religious convic- tions to assist me either to endure or deny this—this urg... ...rk particularly upon the differences between men of the same race who were Hindus, Christians and Mahometans respectively. He could compare the Bengal... ...nd of the shame of extorted obedience and of cringing and crawl- ing black figures, and the defiance of righteous hate beaten down under blow and angu... ...s a peculiar mixture of attraction and irritation. He was attracted by the Hindu spirit of intellectualism and the Hindu repudiation 259 H G Wells of...

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...gs, went up in a lift, and presently a door was being opened for them by a Hindu. Gerald looked in surprise, wondering if he were a gentle- 69 man, o... ...ald looked in surprise, wondering if he were a gentle- 69 man, one of the Hindus down from Oxford, perhaps. But no, he was the man-servant. ‘Make tea... ...irectly, the man appeared in the doorway. ‘What is it?’ said Halliday. The Hindu grinned, and murmured shyly: ‘Want to speak to master.’ Gerald watche... ...school, on the brow of the green hill, against the trees. There were small figures on the green lawn, women in lavender and yellow moving to the shade... ...‘Of course,’ he said, ‘Julius is somewhat insane. On the one hand he’s had religious mania, and on the other, he is fascinated by obscenity. Either he... ...therefore slighted by everybody—how known it all was, like a game with the figures set out, the same figures, the Queen of chess, the knights, the paw... ...ghts, the pawns, the same now as they were hundreds of years ago, the same figures moving round in one of the innumerable permutations that make up th... ...n con- science. Seething masses of miners met daily, carried away by a new religious impulse. The idea flew through them: ‘ All men are equal on earth... ..., they are all sons of God. Whence then this obvious disquality?’ It was a religious creed pushed to its material conclusion. Thomas Crich at least ha...

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... the great destinies of this war. In the last few years I have developed a religious belief that has become now to me as real as any commonplace fact.... ...ll send one or two waggons up and down that road and instruct them to make figures of eight to imitate scorching on the grass in front of the gun. We ... ...g that, Mr. Dyson might draw the encounter. You imag- ine these two heroic figures got up for the interview, very magnificent in shining helms and flo... ...He shows you how great they are and how terrible. Among them go the little figures of men, robbed of all dominance, robbed of all individual quality. ... ...s done so. This is an understandable and respectable type. It has numerous Hindu equivalents. It is a type that finds little difficulty about exemptio... ...n the long run it will be the worse for you.” III. III. III. III. III. THE RELIGIOUS RE THE RELIGIOUS RE THE RELIGIOUS RE THE RELIGIOUS RE THE RELIGIO... ...ings are similar in Italy—is that it has pro- duced a very great volume of religious thought and feeling. About Russia in these matters we hear but li... ...ore he remains the same simple thing. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, modern Hindu religious thought, all agree in declaring that there is one God, mast...

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...disposition for peace may crystallise, have suggested the Pope and various religious organisations as a possible basis for the organisation of peace. ... ...ber of devoted men and women ready to give their whole lives, with a quasi-religious enthusiasm, to this great task of peace establishment, finding in... ...rounding country, or Asia Minor, where no definite national boundaries, no religious, linguistic, or social homogeneities have ever established them- ... ...that she will be committed to the payment of an annual interest greater in figures than the entire national expenditure before the war. As an opti- mi... ...sh intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B.A.,” but what is the ordinary classical... ...point alike to such languages as Russian or, in the case of Great Britain, Hindustani to supply this sound training. If Great Britain means business a... ...stick at the petty expense of getting a few hundreds of good Rus- sian and Hindu teachers into the country, and she will place Russian and Hindustani ...

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... away from his discomfort – matters of the garden, the salmon nets, and (what I par- ticularly raged to hear) continually of his affairs, cyphering fi... ... bedad, my friend, I could lay my finger on a garden where there is going to be trouble.” They carried their comedy so far as to converse awhile in Hi... ...e glad to know how you come in a garden.” “Is that the way of it?” says I, and laying my hand on my sword-hilt I bade the cipaye draw. Ballantrae’s Hi... ...d though Ballantrae himself never moved a muscle I knew him well enough to be sure he was prepared. “The Sahib thinks you better go away,” says the Hi... ...y the pathetic portions of that work. I would retort upon him with pas- sages out of the Bible, which was all my library – and very fresh to me, my re...

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...here are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea, no distinct realization, of the... ... peculiar fashion; Margaret of Navarre was writing the “Heptameron” and some religious books,—the first survives, the others are forgotten, wit and in... ...Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a ‘religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the ... ...believe it, but many steamboat clerks al ways carried a large assortment of religious tracts with them in those old departed steamboating days. Indee... ...he names of people who were frozen to death, and statistics showing the high figures which pork and hay went up to. Pork and hay would suggest corn an... ...i River Improvement will be found in the Appendix. * Sometimes, half a dozen figures will reveal, as with a light ning flash, the importance of a sub... ...e ceremonies connected with it could be made as costly and ostentatious as a Hindu suttee; while for the poor, cre mation would be better than burial...

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...the board of aldermen or the state legislature and prove, absolutely, with figures all in rows and with precedents from Poland and New Zealand, that t... ...wed Babbitt by confess- ing that he often sat up till midnight reading the figures and footnotes in Government reports, or skimming (with amusement at... ...e of men bent over the bowls inset along a prodigious slab of marble as in religious prostra- tion before their own images in the massy mirror. Voices... ...y a wrapper in a store, is now getting Ten Real Dollars a day teaching our Hindu System of Vibratory Breathing and Mental Control.” Ted had collected ... ...rce, just as the priests of the Presbyte- rian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decid... ...en a bath-tub, never read any book save the Bible, McGuffey’s readers, and religious tracts; and he be- lieved that the earth is flat, that the Englis... ...er sheets of statistics, they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants. “Gosh,” Babbitt wailed to his w... ...r as he examined her books: Conrad’s “Res- cue,” a volume strangely named “Figures of Earth,” po- etry (quite irregular poetry, Babbitt thought) by Va...

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... of genius. Such a man did actually appear there,—a poet, a Swede of great religious fer- vor, who died admiring, even reverencing this region as one ... ... your poets hang in forests and on the mountains. Do you see the shad- owy figures passing among the clouds, the winged feet of those who are making r... ...ricious girl; a little spoilt by her parents, who turned her head with the religious ideas I have just revealed to you.” Minna shook her head in a way... ...presents itself. “If we carry the problem higher, shall we not be like the Hindus, who put the world upon a tortoise, the tortoise on an elephant, and...

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...s, al- though their features were not a bit alike. In these two slov- enly figures, with their coarse lips, teeth, and noses 7 Turgenev (Ostrodumov w... ... dark and dense than in the other.” “Then what would you have us do?” “The Hindus cast themselves under the wheels of the Jug- gernaut,” Paklin contin... ...piteful, and even vulgar, when any one dared to annoy him, or to upset his religious, conservative, or patriotic principles. Then he became merciless.... ...range thing,” Kollomietzev repeated. “Ev- erybody knows that I am a deeply religious man, orthodox in the fullest sense of the word, but the sight of ... ...founded a small alms-house! She had prayed for him fervently, although her religious feelings from earliest child- hood had not been strongly develope... ... pride. At one time one could have discerned about thirty-six little human figures in various attitudes carved on its lid, but they were so erased as ... ...essions, personal sensations, they had also demanded nothing but facts and figures. Mariana was not a child, but she was like a child in the directnes...

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...e sight or hearing of any crime, in word or action. He must be educated in religious and moral principles of the strictest description. Let him not en... ...f the gloomiest and most hideous of mental maladies was taking the form of religious despair. Still the youth was gentle, courteous, affectionate, and... ... of the fair female, when his thoughts ought to have been dedicated to the religious discourse of her father, were set before him in the darkest colou... ...vanced guard, wrapped in long loose greatcoats that hid their tall slender figures, as the large slouched hats, drawn over their brows, concealed thei... ... in the night, or very early in the morning, a flageo- let play the little Hindu tune to which your daughter is so partial. I thought for some time th... ...r coming nearer and nearer. At length, I distinguished plainly that little Hindu air which you called my favourite—I have told you by whom it was taug... ...d and singular-looking woman recall to my recollection some of the strange figures I have seen in our Indian pagodas?” While he embarrassed himself wi... ...rofessed sports- man, had something in it wildly captivating. The shifting figures on the mountain ridge, having the sky for their back- ground, appea...

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...ed in the knowledge of rocks and minerals, but supposed by many to hold on religious subjects no special doctrines what- ever. The Jupiter, that daily... ...ife adapted himself to the views held by the whigs on most theological and religious subjects. He bore with the idolatry of Rome, tolerated even the i... ...ot averse to the society and manners of the world, she is in her own way a religious woman; and the form in which this ten- dency shows itself in her ... ...go such a penance. It is as much a relic of paganism as the sacrifice of a Hindu woman at the burning of her husband’s body. If not so bloody, it is q... ...arefully at the point to which she had dot- 146 Barchester Towers ted her figures, marked down in her memory the sum she had arrived at, and then loo... ...he spoke she kept her pencil sternly and vigorously fixed on the column of figures before her. ‘Why, my dear, there is a difficulty, ’ said the bishop... ... bishop’s bosom while Mrs Proudie stall sat with her fixed pencil, and the figures of her sum still enduring on the tablets of her memory. ‘£4 17s 7d,...

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...s of foot-notes filled with heaps of small dusty type, Parisian imagistes, Hindu recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with mod... ...re, with seven or eight clerks all looking at you. And the men’s suits, on figures just like human. And Axel Egge’s, like home, lots of Swedes and Nor... ...Dave Dyer, a sallow woman with a thin prettiness devoted to experiments in religious cults, illnesses, and scandal-bearing, shook her finger at Carol ... ... don’t know the things that go on under cover. This town—why it’s only the religious training I’ve given Cy that’s kept him so innocent of—things. Jus... ...ything for all of us! For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher. We want everything. We shatn’t get it.... ...ng enough to read Robert J. Ingersoll clean through. Ingersoll? Oh, he’s a religious writer. Sure. You’d like him fine.” When he drove off he waved to... ...end and Olaf on the other. Uncle Miles’s most ec- static trick was to make figures not on paper but right on a new pine board, with the broadest softe... ...o have been a business woman. I had a good deal of talent for tend- ing to figures. All gone now. Some folks think I’m crazy. Guess I am. Sit and grou...

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...Oh, I’m sorry,” she said. And she went to the bar. “Well,” said the little Hindu doctor, “and how are things going now, with the men?” “The same as ev... ...ill they learn wisdom?” “But what do you call wisdom?” asked Sherardy, the Hindu. He spoke with a little, childish lisp. “What do I call wisdom?” repe... ...the house. The blind was not drawn in the middle kitchen, he could see the figures of his wife and one child. There was a light also in the upstairs w... ... open boulevard. But there it was: the people seemed little, upright brisk figures moving in a certain isolation, like tiny figures on a big stage. An... ...sitive and most essentially noble, is woman. This, in their productive and religious souls, they believe. And however much they may react against the ... ...the Palazzo Vecchio: and at the fountain splashing water upon its wet, wet figures; and the distant equestrian statue; and the stone-flagged space of ...

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...en agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of par... ...courage that prevented her putting this resolution into execution; but her religious feelings came to her aid and saved her. Caderousse was, like Fern... ...ened attentively; then, turning to the governor, observed, “He will become religious — he is already more gentle; he is afraid, and retreated before t... ...nded to seize their prey, and on the highest rock was a torch lighting two figures. He fancied that these two forms were looking at the sea; doubtless... ...t a word. What could he say? What need he add to such a desperate proof in figures? “And have you done all that is possible, father, to meet this disa... ...e ray, like a Christian angel in the midst of Olympus, one of those chaste figures, those calm shadows, those soft visions, which seemed to veil its v... ..., but as regards the codes of all nations. The English, Turkish, Japanese, Hindu laws, are as familiar to me as the French laws, and thus I was right,... ...s bounded only by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard — I am a cosmopolite. No country can s...

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...ut—that’s the puddlers’ furnaces, and there, in the hot light, three black figures—did you see the white splash of the steam-hammer then?—that’s the r... ...ed and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. Holroyd tried to elucidate his religious beliefs, and—especially after whisky—lectured to him against supe... ...s secret; he saw the moonlit trees, the little fire burning, and the black figures of the three Chinamen—silvered on one side by moonlight, and on the... ...losion had engendered a huge volume of dark smoke. Through the dimness the figures of Lidgett and the boys moved, as faint and silent as ghosts. Platt... ...uld he?” said Hill. “What inducement has he?” “That’s the way with all you religious people. It’s all a busi- ness of inducements. Cannot a man seek a... ...her 326 The Country of the Blind dark, still—I am not ashamed of having a Hindu great-grand- mother, but, for all that, I don’t want casual strangers... ...ly, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani from generation to generation— and none are absolutely plain sai...

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...in passages, with mangles in them, and three cornered tables, and a native Hindu chair, which was also a sofa, a box, and a bedstead, and looked in ev... ... a constable’s staff and took the whole fam ily into custody. I mean into religious custody, of course; but she really did it as if she were an inexo... ...At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two 164 Bleak House – Vol. One enl... ...warm, however, but that their noses looked red and pinched and their small figures shrunken as the boy walked up and down nursing and hushing the chil... ...llweed, who has been mumbling and shaking her head at the trivets, hearing figures mentioned, connects them with money and screeches like a horrible o...

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...d come. T o the lonely youth upon the New Zealand sheep farm, to the young Hindu, to the trapper under a Labrador tilt, to the half-breed assistant at... ...is bound to go to pieces. It has no economic, no mili- tary, no racial, no religious unity. Its only conceivable unity is a unity of language and purp... ...ts and cities, as courts and unifying monarchies, as helpful and directing religious organisations, as literature and art and science and philosophy, ... ...perty, animated by roads and towns and unified by a generally intelligible religious belief, lived in a transi- tory but satisfactory harmony under a ... ...o be borne, and we want the contemporary novel to give us a score of other figures to put beside him, other aspects and reflections upon this great pr... ... viciousness about Belloc that bars him from my celestial dreams. He never figures, no, not even in the re- 130 An Englishman Looks at the World mote... ...iated that accumulation of desiccated anthropological anecdotes that still figures importantly in current sociological work. On the lines he initiated... ...y specialise extremely, for example, under such condi- tions as one had in Hindustan up to the coming of the present generation. There the metal worke...

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... toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religious and polit- ical pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights for w... ...themselves the victims of successive foreign masters. He uses cultural and religious allusions to the holy Qur’an and some of its interpreters. He app... ...l destruction of the Caliphate on lead- ers who abandoned the pure path of religious devotion. 9 He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace marty... ...most capable and popular leaders of al Qaeda.While most of the group’s key figures had accompanied Bin Ladin to Afghanistan, Banshiri had remained in ... ...that “by the grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, wo... ...ally, domestic dissi- dents.The FBI had spied on a wide range of political figures, especially indi- viduals whom Hoover wanted to discredit (notably ... ... Kissinger. In later years, individual secretaries of state were important figures, but the department’s role continued to erode. State came into the ...

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...res of my Western sea, the circle almost circled; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere, From Asia, from the north, from th... ...ic, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea, The Japan waters, the b... ... that last longer than any, Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee, Served the mound raiser on the Mississippi, served those who... ...tity, average, limitless, free, To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire, Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabili... ...he ponderous dray, Pyrotechny, letting off color’d fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets; Beef on the butcher’s stall, the slaughter house of the... ...EARN’D A STRONOMER When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts an... ...ions; You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient, You undertone of rivers, roar of po... ... me in bliss, The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets. I see religious dances old and new, I hear the sound of the Hebrew lyre, I see ...

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...ne of the piers—the seventh—that he had not fully settled in his mind. The figures would not shape themselves to the eye except one by one and at enor... ...I would have asked you to spend the day with me. They are dam- bore, these religious ceremonies, Finlinson, eh?” Peroo, well known to the crew, had po... ...d repairs to the reservoir, and wrinkling her eyebrows over the columns of figures of estimated water-supply. “And he finds time to do all this,” she ... ...dilated joyously. The South of pagodas and palm-trees, the overpopu- lated Hindu South, was done with. Here was the land she knew and loved, and befor... ...ard-meetin’ on Wednesday, an’ I slept overnight in the engine-room, takin’ figures to support my case. Well, I put it fair and square be- fore them al...