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For man cannot love, with all his mind and heart and soul and strength, a vast impersonal force working blindly through infinite space and everlasting time. And the second and last stage in this process of vitiating the true idea of God appears in that polytheism in the midst of which St.
But they could not have wanted to emancipate themselves unless they had felt instinct as a servitude imposed by an external authority, and therefore we have to distinguish yet another epoch wherein reason is expressed in authoritarian institutions to which men blindly submit. Second: that of authoritarian reason. Third: that of enfranchisement; the age of scepticism and unregulated liberty.
I do you know, in the last few days I've begun to realize how much more you other people observe than I do. I've begun to wonder if I haven't been very blindly self-sufficient. For I never dreamed of such a thing, until something happened after I left you last night." Her voice faltered, but her eyes clung resolutely to his. "She came to me and asked me if I knew where he had gone.
He wondered what awaited him and why his life had been spared. That he had walked blindly into a trap prepared for him by that mysterious personality known as Fire-Tongue, he no longer could doubt. Intense anxiety and an egotistical faith in his own acumen had led him to underestimate the cleverness of his enemies, a vice from which ordinarily he was free.
For over two months she had been fighting a specter, never daring to lift her eyes to it, but fighting it blindly, passionately, unceasingly.
"Maybe I'm prejudiced, blindly," he growled, "but I do believe that there is nothing in the world to equal the absolute and refined cruelty of a woman-child of ten unless it is that of a woman of twenty or thirty, and on up the scale when she first finds out that a man cares enough for her so that she can really hurt him!
I could laugh to see what a mess I have made of things. I could cry if anybody else had made it, and had meant as well, and hoped as blindly. 'Monday, the twenty-second. That was the day I came here. Strange it is strange! I'd have sworn he was alive that night that first night in the tent here. I seemed to feel him near me. We had that knack the old governor and I poor old chap!
Without a word she caught from her cloak a dagger and struck him in the breast, though he threw up his hand and partly diverted the blow. Without a cry he half swung round, and sank, face forward, against the couch where Alixe lay. Raising himself feebly, blindly, he caught her hand and kissed it; then he fell back. Stooping beside him, I felt his heart. He was alive.
If he were to enter the sheep war, it would be because he really considered sheep harmful to the range; not because of the overwhelming and contagious prejudice. In one thing only did he follow blindly his sense of loyalty: He hated the Hydraulic Company. Years after the placers failed someone discovered that the wholesale use of hydraulic "giants" produced gold in paying quantities.
I have no horsemen at my back, and have stumbled here blindly, a much bedraggled fugitive, having lost my way in every sense of the phrase.
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