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... all; but isn’t the beauty and the difficulty just in showing their mystic conversion by that sense, con- version into the stuff of drama or, even mor... ...ion, as a silver bell. Two very good instances, I think, of this effect of conversion, two cases of the rare chemistry, are the pages in which Isabel,... ...t up with such different customs and ideas. I’m not used to your arbitrary standards, and I’ve never been spoken to in America as you have spoken to m... ...ectly consistent with the best breed- ing. Indeed it was almost a proof of standards and touch- stones other than the vulgar: he must be so sure the v... ...ad not been shy he wouldn’t have effected that gradual, subtle, successful conversion of it to which she owed both what pleased her in him and what my... ...who of old had been so free of step, so desultory, so devious, so much the reverse of processional. There were certain things they must do, a certain ...

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...cattering type. She was as equipped in this particular as Strether was the reverse, and it made an opposition between them which he might well have sh... ...eresting to him to feel that he was in the presence of new measures, other standards, a different scale of rela- tions, and that evidently here were a... ... was an account of the matter Miss Gostrey could weigh. “Does he think the conversion sudden?” “Well,” said Strether, “I’m not altogether sure what he... ...new in this vision of him a joy that was akin to envy; so 325 Henry James reversed as he stood there did their old positions seem; so comparatively d... ...In the 1909 New York Edition the following two chapters were placed in the reverse of the order appearing below. Since 1950, most scholars have agreed... ...nt world, traditions, as- sociation; her other opportunities, liabilities, standards.” His friend listened with respect to his enumeration of these di...

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....................... 129 Lecture VIII: THE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATION ......................................... 165 Lecture IX: CONVERSION .................................................................................................................................... 188 Lecture X: CONVERSION?Concluded ................................................

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... ITS UNIFICATION ......................................... 165 Lecture IX: CONVERSION ................................................................... .............................................................. 188 Lecture X: CONVERSION—Concluded ......................................................... ...- amples of divided self—The unity attained need not be religious—”Counter conversion” cases—Other cases—Gradual and sudden unification—Tolstoy’s reco... ...lists, will take place all the more successfully if those rules be exactly reversed. Official moralists advise us never to relax our strenu- ousness. ... ...h. In melancholiacs there is usually a simi- lar change, only it is in the reverse direction. The world now looks remote, strange, sinister, uncanny. ... ...ach of them is so rapidly succeeded by an- 193 William James other in the reverse direction; but whenever one aim grows so stable as to expel definit... ...o do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how 323 William James far the religious life c... ...se in war. War, and even peace, require of the soldier absolutely peculiar standards of morality. The recruit brings with him common moral notions, of... ...t sentimentally only, and not in isolation, but using our own intellectual standards, placing him in his en- vironment, and estimating his total funct...

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...at a sense of one’s own excellence justifies one’s utmost fecundity or the reverse. Mr. Vrooman, who, with Mrs. Vrooman, founded Ruskin Hall at Oxford... ...character, strength, or intelligence for efficient citizenship. Our raised standards of housing, our persecu- tion of overcrowding, and our obstructio... ...nd beau- tiful English into bad. I do not see why it should not follow the reverse direction. Selected passages of mean, stereotyped, garrulous or ine... ... cold blood to measure the enormous defect of myself and my fellows by the standards of a remote perfection, to gauge the extent of this complex muddl... ...artment of a school is a thing added to the old conception of schooling, a conversion of the all too ample school hours to complete and rectify the wo... ...ntences, give a course of exercises in paraphrasing (for the most part the conversion of good English into bad), and wind up with lessons in “Composit... ... And either of these bodies could be brought under a process of deliberate conversion in this direction with scarcely any revolutionary shock at all.*... ...e slackness might be drained along a channel of spe- cially high fees, low standards, and agreeable social condi- tions. That, however, is a quite sub...

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...turbed’this effort. But, on the other hand, for a mere ‘cultus’ to attempt conversions, is nonsense. An ancient Roman could have had no motive for bri... ...any there are, or our national religion; and, without needing a process of conversion, either in substance or in form. Ipso facto, and without any sep... ...nal constitu- tion, inferior to man; but this original precedency had been reversed for the present, by the fact that man, in his higher nature, was m... ...r side, should reconcile itself, both verbally and in spirit, with ancient standards. But if Phil. is eclectic, then I will be eclectic; if Phil. has ... ...he value allowed to x, until x may be made to vanish altogether,—so in the reverse order, any material reduction of value in x will virtually operate ... ...inference from the possibility of a thing to its reality, but that, in the reverse order, ab esse ad posse, the inference is inevitable: if it is, or ... ... inquire; as to its moral prin- ciples, they went so far ahead of European standards, that we were neither comprehended nor believed. The perfection o...

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...hem the treasures of their subjects. Of the multitude who flocked to their standards, such as were not lured by the hope of plunder imagined they were... ...other, save where national jealousy could indulge a mali- cious joy at the reverses of a rival. This barrier the Reformation destroyed. An interest mo... ...inying for want of pay, sold the town to the Emperor. Un- dismayed by this reverse, he immediately com- menced new levies in the Upper Palatinate, and... ...my into Lower Saxony, bearing that princess’s glove in his hat, and on his standards the motto “All for God and Her”. Neither of these adventurers had... ...he general of the League obtained a complete victory. The Danes lost sixty standards, and their whole artillery, baggage, and ammunition. Several offi... ...mall district compelled the Emperor disgracefully to recall his mandate of conversion. The example of the court had, however, afforded a precedent to ... ...t himself. But since Wallenstein’s dismissal, and Tilly’s defeat, the very reverse of this course was pursued by the Emperor and the League. The gener...

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... the purposes of classification at any subsequent stage. But the change of standards and points of view is gradual only, and it seldom results in the ... ... exploit, so far as it results in an outcome use- ful to the agent, is the conversion to his own ends of energies previously directed to some other en... ...nitial phase of ownership, the phase of acqui- sition by naive seizure and conversion, begins to pass into the subsequent stage of an incipient organi... ... social structure in point of reputability; and its manner of life and its standards of worth therefore afford the norm of reputability for the commun... ...afford the norm of reputability for the community. The observance of these standards, in some degree of ap- proximation, becomes incumbent upon all cl... ...rder may be expected to work to the detriment of the class rather than the reverse. The attitude of the class, simply as influenced by its class inter... ...cial struc- ture. The inhibition which it exercises may be salutary or the reverse. Wether it is the one or the other in any given case is a question ... ...The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupu- lous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends, and in a callous disregard...

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...e buildings were of a far stronger construction than is required by normal standards in America, because of the earthquake danger in Japan. This excep... ...ve effect of an ordinary material such as T.N.T. is derived from the rapid conversion of solid T.N.T. to gas, which occupies initially the same volume... ...ut half the windows. These buildings were of European type and were on the reverse side of a steep hill. At the same distance to the south-southeast t...

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...arry on the benevolent plans which have been so meritoriously applied to the conversion of our aborigi nal neighbors from the degradation and wretche... ...de by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of r... ...d then submitted it to Parliament for their advice and consent. Now the very reverse is the case here, not only with regard to the principle, but the ... ... the raising of revenue should be the object and protection the incident. To reverse this principle and make protection the object and rev enue the i... ...ade up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried a... ...we cannot, while throwing our markets open to the world, main tain American standards of living and opportunity, and hold our industrial eminence in ... ...oothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the...

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...usiness enterprise will be with it. It will develop its own characteristic standards of art and literature and con- duct in accordance with its new ne... ...But its heart is sound if its judgments fall short of acuteness and if its standards of achievement are low. It needs but a quickening spirit upon the... ...y prepared to subordi- nate all exceptional and surplus lives to the moral standards and limitations that arise naturally out of the Normal Social Lif... ..., mind, and imagination have all to be trained—and they need trainers. The conversion of a thousand citizens into anything better than a sheep-like mi... ...are heavy horse vans, and their disappearance would greatly facilitate the conversion of the road surfaces to the hard and even texture needed for hor... ... than they are to-day. I think I have given reasons for believing that the reverse of this is nearer the truth. IS IS IS IS IS THERE A P THERE A P THE...

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...are no more scientific than their tailors; or, if you prefer to put it the reverse way, their tailors are no less scientific than they. Doctoring is a... ...ady who was not easily killed. She recovered with no worse result than her conversion to Christian Sci- ence, which owes its vogue quite as much to pu... ...ons which are really comparisons between two social classes with different standards of nutrition and education are palmed off as comparisons between ...

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...e! The poor Invalides have sunk under their battlements, or rise only with reversed muskets: they have made a white flag of napkins; go beating the ch... ...orthodox. Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or pans of incense... ...er of by- standers, with alacrity: broad bottom of Priests; alas, Nuns too reversed, and cotillons retrousses! The National Guard does what it can: Mu... ...nd Half-pay, on many a Circe Island, with temporary enchantment, temporary conversion into beasthood and hoghood;—the remote Var Department has now se... ...of the besieged;’—resist to the death; but not longer than that. How sad a reverse for Mentz! Brave Foster, brave Lux planted Liberty-trees, amid ca-i... ... hats of men. They have their pikes, their firelocks; Paper of Grievances; standards; printed Proclamation, drawn up in quite official manner,—con- si... ... door starts up;—bursts-in Saint-Antoine with frenzy and vociferation, Rag-standards, printed Proclamation, drum-music: astonishment to eye and ear. G...

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..., churches, classes, and parties have thought, and even now think, the exact reverse. He devolves upon his own world the responsibility of being in th... ... of opinion: those who hold it have generally inherited, not adopted it; and conversion from one of these doctrines to another, being now an exception... ... as if they were pressed upon him by a dissentient cham pion, eager for his conversion. But instead of seeking contrivances for this pur pose, they ... ...nd feelings on an exclusively religious type, and dis carding those secular standards (as for want of a better name they may be called) which heretof...

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...k among them by a law of his own, make his own scale of men and things and reverse theirs, pay for benefits not with money but with honor, and represe... ...will the God deign to enter and inhabit you, but by a method precisely the reverse. It is only as a man puts off all foreign support and stands alone ... ...rtion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordi- nary standards. They relate to your gift. Let them have their weight, and do not... ...t religion and greater intel- lectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action, yet for the hero that thing he does is the ... ...rances of Socrates, the “union” of Plotinus, the vi- sion of Porphyry, the conversion of Paul, the aurora of Behmen, the convulsions of George Fox and... ...the spontaneous states, without which no produc- tion is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought, under the eye of jud... ...nd form; a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginatio... ...f years! Tomorrow again everything looks real and angu- lar, the habitual standards are reinstated, common sense is as rare as genius,—is the basis o...

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... a hundred worship? Ah, Constantine! of how much ill was mother, Not thy conversion, but that marriage dower Which the first wealthy Father took f... ...ame, That ‘mid the other notes thy name I place.” And he to me: “For the reverse I long; Take thyself hence, and give me no more trouble; For il... ... Another people ruggedly enswathes, Not downward turned, but all of them reversed. Weeping itself there does not let them weep, And grief that fin... ...n Fear they may lose because another rises, Thence are so sad that the reverse they love; And there are those whom injury seems to chafe, So tha... ...t, For all the other burdens seem a feather. Tardy, ah woe is me! was my conversion; But when the Roman Shepherd I was made, Then I discovered l... ...m of the colours Whence the sun’s bow is made, and Delia’s girdle. These standards to the rearward longer were Than was my sight; and, as it seeme... ...ed Christ and the others who came after him, 295 Dante And, finding for conversion too unripe The folk, and not to tarry there in vain, Returne...

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...hir Hierarchs in orders bright Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc’d, Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare Streame in the Aire, and for... ...o smite Descending, and in half cut sheere, nor staid, But with swift wheele reverse, deep entring shar’d All his right side; then SATAN first knew pa... ...rd, though sad, till Death, his doom (which I To mitigate thus plead, not to reverse) To better life shall yeeld him, where with mee All my redeemd ma... ...ted thir Assemblies, whereso met, Triumphs or Festivals, and to them preachd Conversion and Repentance, as to Souls In prison under Judgements imminen...

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...ugh Io, as a maiden apparently beguiled by attractive merchandise, was the reverse of Miss Brooke, and in this re- spect perhaps bore more resemblance... ...sence? Neither of them felt it possible to speak again at present. To have reversed a previous arrangement and declined to go out would have been a sh... ...g down his stick with a show of truce which had a threat in it too, for he reversed the stick so as to make the gold handle a club in case of closer f... ...m know that he did not find marriage particularly blissful would imply his conversion to their (probably) earlier disapproval. It would be as bad as l... ...ntly Killjoy. I affect no niceness of conscience—I have not found any nice standards necessary yet to measure your actions by, sir. And I again call u... ...t on his honorable ambition, and must make even people who had only vulgar standards regard his reputation as irrevocably damaged. In such mo- ments a...

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...his manner exchanged for a certain sum of money, is in Scotland called the conversion price. As the option is always in the landlord to take either th... ...ient times seem frequently to have mistaken what is called in Scotland the conversion price for the actual market price. Fleetwood acknowledges, upon ... ... not think proper to make this acknowledgment till after transcribing this conversion price fifteen times. The price is eight shillings the quarter of... ...gh the current coin of the two countries, therefore, were equally near the standards of their respective mints, a sum of English money could not well ... ... happened then to have upon hand. Upon other occasions, the order has been reversed; and a rich field of rice or other grain has been ploughed up, in ... ...here as good a price, or should be sold there as dear as possible. But the reverse of this is their interest as merchants. As sovereigns, their intere...