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Throughout the process you notice one feature which is perfectly unalterable, and that is, angular magnitude. The spiculæ branch from the trunk, and from these branches others shoot; but the angles enclosed by the spiculæ are unalterable. In like manner you may find alum-crystals, quartz-crystals, and all other crystals, distorted in shape.
When his individualism becomes aggressive egotism, as often happens, it is irritating; but when it gives only that pungent and personal flavor which pervades much of "Walden," it is very welcome. Thoreau's critics justly aver that he severely arraigns his countrymen because they are not all Thoreaus that they do not desert their farms and desks and shops and take to the woods.
The tall, graceful ones are too thin, I want those subtle, gracious lines, but I don't want sharp bones and corners. I want smooth, rounded contours, and yet the outlines to be delicate; I want slender grace and suppleness with roundness...." I stopped suddenly, the blood mounting to my forehead. I was looking down at her as she lay back in the chair.
But what would or at least ought to strike the newcomer's eye with most pleasurable surprise, and make him realise into what a new world he has been suddenly translated even more than the Negroes, and the black vultures sitting on roof-ridges, or stalking about in mid-street are the flowers which show over the walls on each side of the street.
From Saturday at half past three until Monday morning at half past seven, the men are locked in their cells, absolutely inactive in body, and abandoned to such mental activities as, for the most part, breed no good either for themselves or others. The only outlet is the Sunday church service hour a crowded session in a blank hall, with rifles ready to subdue any disorder.
They have a garage full of machines at home, and I don't know how many horses. She said it in a way to make people who had always ridden in public conveyances feel mighty plebeian and poor-folksy, although she insisted that street-cars are lots of fun. 'They give you a funny sensation when they stop. Those were her very words."
Yet these hatreds, these fears, and ambitions, inherited and carefully nourished, are just as real particularly in little states like these as the fact, odd and apparently unreasonable as it may be, that in a bit of country, which might be included in one of our larger States, one lot of people should speak French and think like Latins, and another speak Slavic and think another way, and that neither wants to be absorbed by the other any more than we want to be compelled to speak Spanish or be absorbed by the Mexicans.
But there were the same old diamonds and pearls, the same old canvases, the same old photographs, the same old antiques, the same old frocks and shoes and men's shirtings, the same old Persian rugs and Japanese ware, the same cold, hard plates and china, the very same old hats and dinks and dressing-gowns and cut flowers and clubs, and all the same doormen in the uniforms that are a cross between those of admirals and generals, the men whose only exercise during the whole of the year is obtained by cutting ice and sweeping snow from just their particular patch of pavement.
But fetishism, polytheism and monotheism are not different and successive stages of one line of evolution, following the same direction. They are lines of different lengths, moving in different directions, though springing from a common centre the soul of man. It is because they have a common centre, that man, whichever line he has followed, can fall back upon it and start afresh.
The bones were neatly coffined, and were sent to Richmond to be buried beside those of the faithful Miss Randolph. Many are the tales of prophecy that have been preserved to us from war times.