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Presently one addressed me by name, and, on inquiry, I found him to be the gentleman who was with me in the pulpit as Orator on the occasion of another Phi Beta Kappa poem, one delivered at New Haven. The party were very courteous and friendly, and contributed in various ways to our comfort.
Kennon didn't. In fact, he behaved quite admirably. Longliners, Kennon reflected, didn't make Beta a port of call, and the Shortliner connections with other worlds were 'infrequent. Beta had done a good job separating from the rest of the Brotherhood. Too good.
On Saturday afternoon, about the middle of November, 1825, I had taken a walk with my friend Beta. On our return he said to me that he was in the habit of going on Saturday evenings to the house of a Christian, where there was a meeting. On further inquiry, he told me that they read the Bible, sang, prayed, and read a printed sermon.
It had twelve petals, limpid white on the borders shading to deep blue in the center-from which the cream-colored stamen surrounded by transparent pistils sprang to burst into a golden glory of pollen that dripped in tiny yellow flecks to the broad petals below. It was a magnificent flower. There was nothing like it on Beta.
We can confine them and control them, but we cannot control the rays of radio-active matter any more than we can confine a spirit. We can separate the three different kinds of rays the alpha, the beta, and the gamma by magnetic devices, but we cannot cork them up and isolate them, as we can musk and the attar of roses.
I was then informed that Leonard Kellogg had gotten hold of a copy of the Holloway-Rainsford tape and had alerted Victor Grego; that Kellogg and Ernst Mallin were being sent to Beta Continent with instructions to prevent publication of any report claiming sapience for the Fuzzies and to fabricate evidence to support an accusation that Dr. Rainsford and Mr.
"Has he turned Alexandria into a shambles yet?" "Not yet, but everyone's uneasy." "I can't blame them. That young fellow's undiluted poison. By the way, how does he look?" "About the same." "The medics must have done a good job," Kennon said. "The Boss-man shipped him to Beta for treatment," Blalok said. "He didn't trust the docs out here." "That figures.
Dazed, Beta went to nurse it; and then returned, in spite of the old woman's pleadings; and so a long time passed how long she never knew. Disaster! This was her one clear realization through all those hours of dark and labor, anguish and despair. For the first time the girl felt beaten. Till now, through every peril, exposure and hardship, she had kept hope and courage.
Good to have lighted the black mystery of the universe, formless and endless and inscrutable, by even so brief a flicker!" "Is it my little pessimist to-night?" he asked. "Too tired, that's all. In the morning things will look different. You must smile, then, Beta, and not think of formless mystery or or anything sad at all. For to-morrow is our wedding-day."
Address at a Meeting of the Free Religious Association. "Progress of Culture." Address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University. Course of Lectures in Philadelphia. The Degree of LL.D. conferred upon Emerson by Harvard University. "Terminus." The "Boston Hymn" was read by Emerson in the Music Hall, on the first day of January, 1863.
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