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...itics, the immense development of the book trade, of literature and of the sciences; the increase of public interest in matters touching the various i... ...staking care; and soar, with the enthusiasm and intoxication of the man of science, into the regions of the unknown in quest of a secret which daily e... ...bleau de Paris that a man can- not live by literature, poetry, letters, or science, by the crea- tures of his brain, in short; and Lucien, poet that h... ...t- tack and defence. A country attorney, on the other hand, cultivates the science of costs, broutille, as it is called in Paris, a host of small item... ...omew. He lived to be rich and honored in his old age, and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he called it, in the face of Europe.” “So long as my... .... The amount of truth in it fur- nished all sorts of wild paradoxes, which journalists main- 134 Eve and David tain cleverly enough for their own amu...

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...ould have been notched, if not broken. The character of immutability which science gives to zoological species is found in Breton human nature. Even n... ...norant of modern litera- ture, and the advance and present progress of the sciences. His education had been limited to geography and the circum- spect... ...he wanted to retain her youth and beauty, to which at that time she clung. Science warned her of the sentence pronounced by Nature upon all her creati... ...o the great question of races? to hitherto unobserved physical influences? Science may some day find the reason of this peculiarity, which ceases in t... ...ed this writer for the last seven years, as she had so many other authors, journalists, artists, and men of the world. She knew his nerveless nature, ... ...n their bodies. Camille Maupin knew the passion within her as those men of science knew their own anatomy. “I have brought him here to judge him, and ...

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...e Duchesse de Grandlieu, had selected certain of the ce- lebrities in art, science, literature, and politics, and received them. Society can lose noth... ...at epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highly praised by journalists, but unknown beyond the bar- riers. Blondet himself was well aw... ...ne, a second-class comedy actress, where, for ten years, the said friends, journalists, certain authors, and writers in general dis- ported themselves... ...more in love than ordinary men in all their lives. Accustomed to listen to journalists, who guess at most things, putting two and two together, to wri... ...ale actors, spite of rivals, naggings of the stage manager, struggles with journalists; all of which require another twelve hours to the day. But even... ...mpadour was to Louis XV. All actresses envied Florine’s position, and some journalists envied that of Raoul. Those to whom the inclination of the huma...

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...o say to him: “You have raised the construction of hats to the height of a science.” “Have you at last discovered a hat to suit me?” asked Leon de Lor... ...listened; he grew pale with pleasure. “Rise, my wife! Monsieur is a man of science.” Madame Vital rose at her husband’s gesture. Gazonal bowed to her.... ...inds, if that animal, calling itself the proprietor, should go to a man of science and say: ‘I want an individual of the bimanous species, able to liv... ...live in darkness but see and know everything,’ most as- suredly the man of science could never have invented the porter to oblige the proprietor; Pari... ...nsieur Humbolt (I did the best I could with the few hairs America left him—science has this in common with sav- ages, that she scalps her men clean), ... ...d splendidly served, for ten per- sons every day. Artists, men of letters, journalists, and the habitues of the house supped there when they pleased. ...

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...itself constantly and inevitably, were it only through its connection with science ever more and *Upon a large overbalance of probabilities, it was, h... ... decoration of his fron- tispiece, was, that Schreiber cultivated one sole science, namely, the science of taking snuff. Here were two separate object... ... awful it was to undertake the writing of new laws upon the spiritual con- science of man. Metanoeite (was the cry from the wilder- ness), wheel into ... ...t is secured that the great well- heads of liberal knowledge and of severe science shall never grow dry. By the former it is secured that this unfaili... ...ulent students—servile to their ca- prices—and, at one blow, degrading the science they pro- fess, the teacher, and the pupil? Yet I hear that such ad... ... it was baser or more inso- lent than the language held by the majority of journalists who then echoed the public voice. Blackwood’s Magazine (1817) f...

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...of steamboating, which seems to me to warrant full examination—the marvelous science of piloting, as dis played there. I believe there has been nothi... ...preceded this may possibly wonder that I deal so minutely with piloting as a science. It was the prime pur pose of those chapters; and I am not quite... ...t. I wish to show, in the most patient and painstaking way, what a wonderful science it is. Ship channels are buoyed and lighted, and therefore it is ... ...d miles of villainous river. * I feel justified in enlarging upon this great science for the reason that I feel sure no one has ever yet written a par... ...appears in the previous chap ters, some of the peculiar requirements of the science of pi loting. First of all, there is one faculty which a pilot m... ...to New Orleans and back, we had many conversations with river men, planters, journalists, and of ficers of the River Commission—with conflicting and ...

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...ve there for a generation—was Babbitt more splendidly innocent than in the science of sanitation. He did not know a malaria-bearing mosquito from a ba... ...ch the energy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first displayed the portrait of a young man with ... ...-lice that think they know more than Almighty God, and prefer a lot of Hun science and smutty German criticism to the straight and simple Word of God.... ...e. They admired and loved one another now. They went pro- foundly into the science of business, and indicated that the purpose of manufacturing a plow... ...r friends and the topics of the day. Then he goes happily to bed, his con- science clear, having contributed his mite to the prosper- ity of the city ... ...stlers over there, is that they’re willing to take a lot off the snobs and journalists and politicians, while the modern American business man knows h... ...to a fault. but one thing he does demand of all teachers and lecturers and journalists: if we’re going to pay them our good money, they’ve got to help...

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... are as spiritually intelligent as men,—an argument in favor of the occult sciences. The old man-servant of Colonel Giguet, Madame Marion’s older brot... ...ries in the French Academy in Rome. They have introduced me to a number of journalists and men of letters, all of them ami- able and distinguished men... ...foolish pretension: that of being initiated by long study into a cer- tain science represented as arduous, which they call the sci- ence of public aff... ...e sci- ence of public affairs and which they (like physicians with medical science) alone have the right to practise. They are not willing that an und... ...obably it occurred to him that the poor young lady, having more ardor than science, was not going the right way to work, and the thought of improving ... ... the tail of the serpent is its venom,”—a remark of antiquity which modern science does not admit. Monsieur de l’Estorade was not mistaken; Sallenauve... ...ve and the insolent pretensions of the veriest sparrow of the opera, these journalists were amazed and touched by the humility, the simplicity of this...

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...d that fell from his companion’s lips seemed fraught with the mysteries of science, as worthy of digging out as the gold and diamonds in the mines of ... ...rn philosophy?” “Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up... ...ly the most miserable of uncles — no treasures — unless they were those of science, contained in the library and labo- ratories. That was all. Caesar ... ...en root there with all their philological ramifica- tions. These different sciences that you have made so easy to me by the depth of the knowledge you... ... be requisite, notwith- standing your certainty, and not that I doubt your science, but in discharge of my official duty, that we should be perfectly ... ...vants, — you understand.” “I see; to your domestics you are `my lord,’ the journalists style you ‘monsieur,’ while your constituents call you ‘citizen...

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...lignity in what I say; it is unnecessary I should furnish still more by my science. My money was all gone, even that I had secretly received from Mada... ...sing a piece for his concerts, as boldly as if I had really understood the science. I had the constancy to labor a fortnight at this curious business,... ...anist, and had he not died young, might have acquired as much fame in that science as he deserved for being an honest man. Serious even to gravity, an... ...le me. To conquer this difficulty, I purchased books which treated on that science, and learned well, for I now studied alone. Practical arithmetic ex... ...degrees absorbed all others; this was music. I was certainly born for that science, I loved it from my infancy, and it was the only inclination I have... ...es Fontaines promised to give it celebrity, and, notwithstanding the other journalists, had spoken of it very favorably. The greatest obstacle to maki...

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... literary or political life, and he yielded to the temptations incurred by journalists behind the scenes. He soon found himself in bad company; but th... ...s equal to that of despair. He obtained an appointment, like other obscure journalists, to a government situation in the provinces, where his liberal ... ...ttle. A novice in theatrical ways, I became a prey to musi- cians, actors, journalists, orchestras. T o get the means to leave Paris and join my famil... ... facts: Doctor Berton is attending a lady whose disease puzzles and defies science. That, of course, is not our concern, but that of the Faculty. Our ... ... themselves in this state, and are recorded by physicians in the annals of science. My daughter gave birth to a dead child; in fact, it was twisted an... ...es or bones. This affection, which is not connected with anything known to science, spread to the arms and hands, and we then supposed it to be a dise... ...ch varied perpetually. He says that neurotic pa- tients are the despair of science, for the causes of their condi- tions are only to be found in some ... ...upon your daughter. He has returned. I myself doubt the possibility of any science being able to revive that body.” “Oh! I don’t expect that,” cried t...

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...k of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the minis- ters of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination. Now, i... ...hat, above all, manifested the shrewdness of the steward, and the profound science of the master, the one in carrying out the ideas of the other, was ... ...justice.” “Do not alarm yourself, monsieur, we will duly respect your con- science.” At this moment the abbe pressed down his side of the shade and so... ...ow out of dogs with whalebone.” “And he is made a member of the Academy of Sciences for this?” “No; of the French Academy.” * Louis David, a famous Fr... ...eems” — “That his experiments have very considerably advanced the cause of science, doubtless?” “No; that his style of writing is very good.” “This mu... ...position to the wishes of the court is now getting him into favor with the journalists. They talk of making him an ambassador.” “And what are his clai... ..., who was in his office. It was a gloomy, dusty-looking apartment, such as journalists’ offices have always been from time immemorial. The servant ann...

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...ow possesses us all. In the same way the elementary facts and ideas of the science of chemistry might conceivably be put completely and fully into one... ...rlying both argu- ments is the fact that modern developments of mechanical science have brought the nations of Europe together into too close a proxim... ...w to the other aspect of these consequences of the development of material science, it is too often as- sumed that this war is being as horrible and d... ...e. A little group of pothouse politicians, wire-pullers, busybodies, local journalists, and small lawyers, working for various monetary interests, hav... ..., and gi- gantic creative effort, lies close at hand. Even now we have the science and the ability available for a universal welfare, though it is sca...

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...he solution of the problem here suggested be- longs to the realm of occult science. During the visits which Roland’s secretary paid to the un- fortuna... ...ious facts that make the whole subject of generation a vast abyss in which science flounders. Agathe bore a strong likeness to the mother of Doctor Ro... ...d the art of painting in a circle of young men whose lives were devoted to science, letters, politics, and philosophy. Conse- quently, he was wounded ... ...le,” he said to one of the frequenters of the cafe, who repeated it to the journalists of the Left. Philippe did not go back to the rue Mazarin; he we... ..., the suppers, the evenings in the side- scenes, the animation of wits and journalists, the sort of racket that went on around him, the delights that ... ...efore attaining this mea- sure of experience they lost fortunes. The whole science of gambling-houses and their gains rests upon three things: the imp... ...t in literature. Philippe and his friend Giroudeau lived among a circle of journalists, actresses, and booksellers, where they were re- garded in the ... ...; and then, after dressing the soldier’s wound, and stating the verdict of science to the Rabouilleuse, Jean-Jacques Rouget, Kouski, and the Vedie, he... ...excessive dissipations of the dangerous and restless society of actresses, journalists, artists, and the equivocal women among whom Philippe had alrea...

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... darkness of a new-born national hatred fos- tered by the Moscow school of journalists against the Poles after the ill-omened rising of 1863. This is ... ...only think of myself but of others; weigh the claims of affection and con- science against my own sincerity of purpose. “Think well what it all means ... ....” I would have been, without doubt, saddened; for in this world where the journalists read the signs of the sky, and the wind of heaven itself, blowi... ...eir cells, to the cloistered monks of Middle Ages, to lonely sages, men of science, reformers; the revelations of the world’s superficial judgment, sh... ...timacy and the strain of a creative effort in which mind and will and con- science are engaged to the full, hour after hour, day after day, away from ...

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... Lucien lives with La T orpille—” “What an irreparable loss to literature, science, art, and politics!” exclaimed Blondet. “La Torpille is the only co... ...y suppressed in men who still have a heart while occupied with politics or science, literature or art. There is not in Paris another woman who can say... ...y men who think themselves his betters,” replied Rastignac. At this moment journalists, dandies, and idlers were all examining the charming subject of... ...n inevitable suffering? Everything is doubtful and obscure in a case which science scorns to study, regarding the subject as too immoral and too compr... ...hysician aside for a moment. After this confidential interview, the man of science told the man of faith that the only cure lay in a journey to Italy.... ...top him, no one can control him. He is a monarch, subject only to his con- science and the Law. At the present time, when philosophers, philanthropist...

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...ak- ing the trouble to explain to you. The sacrosanct fetish of to- day is science. Why don’t you get some of your friends to go for that wooden-faced... ... - people of no account. Nobody minds what they say. But there is learning—science. Any imbecile that has got an income be- lieves in that. He does no... ...lass which should be im- pressed. They believe that in some mysterious way science is at the source of their material prosperity. They do. And the abs... ... It is almost an institution. The demonstration must be against learn- ing—science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocki... ...ble, hopelessly dense suffi- ciency which nothing but the frequentation of science can give to the dulness of common mortals. “That’s what he may be c... ...ity bestowed upon Michaelis on his release two years ago by some emotional journalists in want of special copy had rankled ever since in his breast. I... ...ict. It would be stupid not to take advantage of legal facilities, and the journalists who had written him up with emotional gush would be ready to wr...

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... disaster, and had the doors locked immediately upon the photographers and journalists who been waiting his re- turn. “Look here, you chaps,” he said,... ... He would make this appalling viscus beat and throb be- fore the shrinking journalists—no uncle with a big watch and a little ever baby ever harped up... ... people had had the intelligence to be simple about it. The development of Science had altered the scale of human affairs. By means of rapid mechanica... ...es had been forced in self-defence into a like diversion of the new powers science had brought them. On the eve of the outbreak of the war there were ... ... for swift and secret action, better equipped with the resources of modern science, and with her official 70 The War in the Air and administrative cl... ...o Woolwich Dockyard. The whole camp reflected the colossal power of modern science that had created it. A peculiar strangeness was produced by the low... ...on’t you ‘ave to dress and things?” he said. “I’ve always been too hard at Science and things to go into Society and all that.” “No fear,” said Kurt. ...

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...out and make sixpence, bossing my labourers and ply- ing the cutlass or the spade, idiot conscience applauds me; if I sit in the house and make twenty... ...n Friday; and Fanny and Lloyd, as they returned from a forest raid, met in our desert, untrodden road, first Father Didier, Keeper of the con- 44 Rob... ...o walk among; no water in the course, scarce any sign of water. And yet surely water must have made this bold cutting in the plateau. And if so, why i... ...say, the end should leave me per February mail; I cannot receive it back till the mail of April. Y es, it can be out in time; pray God that it be in t... ..., long lost, improved by the most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long kno...