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"Quite true, my dear, but that does not make the words out of her mouth the less efficacious for evil. She clearly insinuated that you had endeavoured to make up a match between this gentleman and your niece, and that you had failed." So much was at least true. Miss Stanbury felt this, and felt also that she could not explain the truth, even to her dear old friend.
As the gift was valued at what it cost the giver, and was supposed to be efficacious in this same ratio, self-denial soon passed into self-torture, prolonged fasts, scourging and lacerations, thus becoming legitimate exhibitions of religious fervor.
But, though the opinion that the dispersion of the Jewish race must be deemed a penalty incurred for their connection with the crucifixion has neither historical nor doctrinal sanction, it is possible that its degrading influence upon its victims may have been as efficacious as if their present condition were indeed a judicial infliction.
Such is her condition now, and her temperament, that it may be doubted whether any words of love, however tender, could be efficacious with her. She is always demanding justification, and as those who are around her never thwart her she has probably all the solace which kindness could give her.
Terror is an efficacious psychological process so long as it does not last. The real terror resides far more in threats than in their realisation. The Terror in the Provinces. The executions of the Revolutionary Tribunals in the provinces represented only a portion of the massacres effected in the departments during the Terror.
She surrounded him with those divining and instinctive cares which are a thousand times more efficacious than the material remedies known to science. While engaged in nursing him, she felt no fatigue, no weariness, no discouragement. Neither her strength, nor her patience, yielded before the task.
Hence actions that induced fertility in the animal world were held to be equally efficacious in stimulating the reproductive energies of the vegetable." How deeply this idea was rooted in the minds of our ancestors we, their descendants, may learn from its survival to our own day.
Although our quaint author considered the above charm even too marvellous for his belief, we give below his own prescription in which he placed implicit confidence, but, no doubt, on trial it would prove "as singularly efficacious" as the other'. Baing pour lauer, les chiens, quand ils ont este mords des chiens enragez, de peur qu'ils enragent.
And those, that hold the government through him, have prevailed by all the means efficacious in worldly affairs; principally and mainly, by having a person to bribe the corruptible; secondly, a point no less important, by having at their command, at whatever season they required, an army to put down their opponents. It is called Mandragora also in English. See Othello, Act III. Sc. 3.
Then, anxious and fearful lest I should have an attack of fever, she rolled into a pellet and thrust into my mouth a very efficacious prayer written on rice-paper, which she had kept carefully in the lining of one of her sleeves. Well, I swallowed that prayer without a smile, not wishing to hurt her feelings or shake her funny little faith.
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