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The necessary preparation for warlike enterprise on the modern plan can apparently be counted on, in the long run, to disintegrate the foundations of the dynastic State.

It seemed to her that with his death some mysterious element of her life, something vital and fundamental, for which there was no name, would disintegrate upon the instant and leave her without the strength necessary for further existence. But this would, however, be a relief.

He caught a glimpse of her dark eyes opened towards him, and for a moment felt his words disintegrate. He continued hurriedly: "War, in a way, is a noble business, in that it reduces us to a biological sanity much the same as does Miss Dillingham's lavender stocking!" The company swallowed this with an abrupt stiffening of necks.

"No individual has yet been able to disintegrate a successful going corporation when the stockholders and the directors were opposed to it." "We are talking of unusual things," Gorham replied. "No individual before has been able to found so mammoth or so successful a corporation as the Consolidated Companies.

Martin Luther was not an innovator he simply expressed what the many wished to hear he was caught in the current of the time: he was part and parcel of the Renaissance. And he was a loyal Churchman. None of his diatribes were against the Church itself he wished to benefit the Church by freeing it from the faults that he feared would disintegrate it.

There was merely a streak of unpleasantly brilliant light across the sky. Bit by bit, building by building, the city began to disintegrate and become replaced by smaller, dingier buildings. In a little while those began to disappear and leave gaps where they vanished. Arthur strained his eyes and looked far down-town.

Dinner that night was not a very gay function; after coffee had been served, the small group seemed to disintegrate as though by some prearrangement, Rosalie and Grandcourt finding a place for themselves in the extreme western shadow of the terrace parapet, Kathleen returning to the living-room, where she had left her embroidery.

But the world intervenes! domestic ties, pecuniary interests, civic claims disintegrate the group. It is sad to think how possible such intercourse is in youth, and in youth only, as one sees it displayed in that fine and moving book Trilby, which does contrive to reflect the joy of the buoyant companionship of art.

It hung poised as had that other nightmare shape, standing out jet black and colossal, rearing upon columnar legs, whose outlines were those of alternate enormous angled arrow-points and lunettes. Swiftly its form shifted; an instant it hovered, half disintegrate. Now I saw spinning spheres and darting cubes and pyramids click into new positions.

The fine material in the heavy application will take care of present need, and the coarser particles will disintegrate later on.