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The recluse of Kremenetz, passionately devoted to his people but wanting in political foresight, was calling Russian officialdom to aid in his fight against the bigotry of the Jewish masses, in the childish conviction that the Russian authorities had the welfare of the Jews truly at heart, and that compulsory measures would do away with the hostility of the Jewish populace toward enlightenment.
The next great physician was Galen, who lived in the second and third centuries of our era. He added greatly to medical knowledge, made extensive use of dietetics, and then in a self-satisfied manner informed his readers that they need look no further for enlightenment, for he had given them all that was of any value.
"Who is this Princess Nikitenko? Why is she in Florence? And why is she not here to-night?" A storm of comment, ejaculation, exclamations of wonder! Ivan closed his ears; and opened them again only for the young Contessa Contarini, who, at a nod from her mother-in-law, undertook enlightenment.
"That young lady is my daughter," he said. Thereupon, under this sudden and fortunate flash of enlightenment, Cazaban became all smiles. He felt reassured, and combed M. de Guersaint's hair with a masterly touch, amid a returning exuberance of speech and gesture. "Ah! monsieur, I congratulate you, I am flattered at having you in my hands.
"What an extraordinary idea!" remarked Bob in the slow tones of a genuine astonishment. "You'd call it to condole, I suppose! That's rather worse." Bob confined himself to a long look at her. It brought him no enlightenment. "You must see that you're the very " She broke off abruptly, and, turning away, began to walk up and down. "The very what?" asked Bob.
As in Germany, so in Russia spiritual emancipation preceded political emancipation. Still shorn almost entirely of the elementary rights of citizens, the Russian Jews nevertheless followed their ideal promptings, and participated enthusiastically in the movement for enlightenment which at that time held the noblest of the Russians enthralled.
Consequently his demand for further enlightenment came with terse directness. Benton nodded and a defiant glint came to his pupils. "I come to serve notice," he announced briefly, "of something I mean to do." Van took the pipe from his mouth and regarded it with concentrated attention, while his friend went on in carefully gauged voice. "I am here," he explained, "as a guest in your house.
Before any of the group could utter a word of thanks, the mysterious boy was off again to the north-west with the speed of the wind. "That voice!" exclaimed Stephen striking his forehead. "I know it surely; whose can it be?" and bewildered past hope of enlightenment, he turned his horse down the slope, and dashed towards the Saskatchewan.
If the group must have on the average three children from each of its women in order to replace itself, the larger part of the reproductive activities will still be confined to the more ignorant, or if they also make use of contraceptive knowledge, the group will simply die out from the effects of its own democratic enlightenment.
There are many things on which we may seek and perhaps find enlightenment. The more we know at the start, the more things which may come into our view will develop themselves." Curiosity took Adam Salton out of bed in the early morning, but when he had dressed and gone downstairs; he found that, early as he was, Sir Nathaniel was ahead of him.
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