Lecture IIITHE REALITY OF THE UNSEENWere one asked to characterize the life of religion in thebroadest and most general terms possible, one might say that itconsists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and thatour supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselvesthereto. This belief and this adjustment are the religiousattitude in the soul. I wish during this hour to call yourattention to some of the psychological peculiarities of such anattitude as this, or belief in an object which we cannot see.All our attitudes, moral, practical, or emotional, as well as...
The Cleveland Era, A Chronicle of the New Order in Politicsby Henry Jones FordCONTENTSI. A TRANSITION PERIODII. POLITICAL GROPING AND PARTY FLUCTUATIONIII. THE ADVENT OF CLEVELANDIV. A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISISV. PARTY POLICY IN CONGRESSVI. PRESIDENTIAL KNIGHT-ERRANTRYVII. THE PUBLIC DISCONTENTSVIII. THE REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITYIX. THE FREE SILVER REVOLTX. LAW AND ORDER UPHELDBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTETHE CLEVELAND ERACHAPTER I. A TRANSITION PERIODPoliticians at Washington very generally failed to realize that the advent of President Hayes marked the dismissal of the issues of war and reconstruction. They regarded as an episode what turned out to be the close of an era. They saw, indeed, that public in
The Diary of a Man of Fiftyby Henry JamesFlorence, April 5th, 1874.They told me I should find Italy greatlychanged; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes.But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to beliving my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of thatenchanting time come back to me. At the moment they were powerfulenough; but they afterwards faded away. What in the world became ofthem? Whatever becomes of such things, in the long intervals ofconsciousness? Where do they hide themselves away? in what unvisitedcupboards and crannies of our being do they preserve themselves?...
Against Apion.(1)by Flavius JosephusTranslated by William WhistonBOOK 1.1. I Suppose that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, (2) have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its own originally; as also, I have therein declared how we came to inhabit this country wherein we now live. Those Antiquities contain the history of five thousand years, and are taken out of our sacred books, but are translated by me into the Greek tongue. However, since I observe a considerable number of people giving ear to the reproaches that are laid against us by those who bear ill-will to us
THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOXTHE ADVENTURES OFREDDY FOXBY THORNTON W. BURGESS1- Page 2-THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOXI. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a ScareReddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a largefamily, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungrylittle mouths and so she had let Reddy go to live with old Granny Fox.Granny Fox was the wisest, slyest, smartest fox in all the country round,and now that Reddy had grown so big, she thought it about time that he...
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a DayHow to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a DayArnold Bennett1- Page 2-How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a DayPREFACE TO THIS EDITIONThis preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be,should be read at the end of the book.I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning thissmall work, and many reviews of itsome of them nearly as long as thebook itselfhave been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been...
Caesar and Cleopatraby George Bernard ShawACT IAn October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end ofthe XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation,afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A greatradiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is risingin the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our owncontemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than weknow them; but you would not guess that from their appearance.Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace,and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian building ofwhitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace; and the...
"A REAL CHRISTIAN"_To Charles Thomson__Monticello, January 9, 1816_MY DEAR AND ANCIENT FRIEND, An acquaintance of fifty-twoyears, for I think ours dates from 1764, calls for an interchange ofnotice now and then, that we remain in existence, the monuments ofanother age, and examples of a friendship unaffected by the jarringelements by which we have been surrounded, of revolutions ofgovernment, of party and of opinion. I am reminded of this duty bythe receipt, through our friend Dr. Patterson, of your synopsis ofthe four Evangelists. I had procured it as soon as I saw itadvertised, and had become familiar with its use; but this copy is...
Lecture VIIITHE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATIONThe last lecture was a painful one, dealing as it did with evilas a pervasive element of the world we live in. At the close ofit we were brought into full view of the contrast between the twoways of looking at life which are characteristic respectively ofwhat we called the healthy-minded, who need to be born only once,and of the sick souls, who must be twice-born in order to behappy. The result is two different conceptions of the universeof our experience. In the religion of the once-born the world isa sort of rectilinear or one-storied affair, whose accounts are...
THE DOOR IN THE WALLIOne confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace toldme this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thoughtthat so far as he was concerned it was a true story.He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction thatI could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the morning,in my own flat, I woke to a different atmosphere, and as I lay inbed and recalled the things he had told me, stripped of the glamourof his earnest slow voice, denuded of the focussed shaded tablelight, the shadowy atmosphere that wrapped about him and thepleasant bright things, the dessert and glasses and napery of the...
THE SUPPLIANTSby Aeschylustranslated by E.D.A. MorsheadCHARACTERS IN THE PLAYDANAUSTHE KING OF ARGOSHERALD OF AEGYPTUSCHORUS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSAttendantsSUPPLIANTS(SCENE:-A sacred precinct near the shore in Argos. Several statuesof the gods can be seen, as well as a large altar. As the playopens, DANAUS, and his fifty daughters, the maidens who composethe CHORUS, enter. Their costumes have an oriental richness aboutthem not characteristic of the strictly Greek. They carry also the...
On Horsemanshipby XenophonTranslation by H. G. DakynsXenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was apupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him landand property in Scillus, where he lived for manyyears before having to move once more, to settlein Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.On Horsemanship advises the reader on how to buya good horse, and how to raise it to be either awar horse or show horse. Xenophon ends with somewords on military equipment for a cavalryman....