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Eventually, as an ever-evolving civilization exhausts its spiritual sources, a process of disintegration sets in, as it does throughout the phenomenal world. Turning again to analogies offered by nature, Bahá’u’lláh compares this hiatus in the development of civilization to the onset of winter. Moral vitality diminishes, as does social cohesion.
To understand how constant is this preoccupation of good writers, even where its results are least obtrusive, it is only necessary to turn to the bad. There, indeed, you will find cacophony supreme, the rattle of incongruous consonants only relieved by the jaw-breaking hiatus, and whole phrases not to be articulated by the powers of man. Conclusion.
It may be surmised that he had here forgotten some connecting link which should have joined without abruptness the declaration of his own love, and his social view as to the general expediency of matrimony. But Dorothy did not discover the hiatus. "Certainly, when they like each other, and if their friends think it proper."
"You must have sea blood in your veins," he remarked. "You listen as though you heard music all the time." "And what about you?" she asked him, smiling. "You are the grandson of Admiral Sir Wingrave Seton who commanded a frigate at Trafalgar, and an ancestor of yours fought in the Armada." "I am afraid," he said quietly, "that there is a hiatus in my life somewhere.
That is the first point a gap, a hiatus in our social organisation to which I direct your attention to-night, and upon which the intelligence of this country ought to be concentrated. The second vicious condition is positive and not negative. I mean the gross, and, I sometimes fear, increasing evil of casual labour.
The dreadful hiatus between aspiration and performance, between acknowledged and realised ideals will widen. The eager impulse to disregard self and to serve God with love and praise and joy, will be found horridly at variance with a natural and rooted impulse towards self-devotion and indulgence.
The other two analogies nobody has ever thought of, although they have always been silently employed by the mind,* because the guiding thread furnished by the categories was wanting, the guide which alone can enable us to discover every hiatus, both in the system of conceptions and of principles. Explanation.
But "natural asceticism" is a thing hardly to be distinguished from functional weakness. What is natural asceticism but a lack of vigor? Does it not tend to close the avenues between the soul and the universe? "Is it not so much death?" The accounts of Emerson show him to have been a man in whom there was almost a hiatus between the senses and the most inward spirit of life.
She will recover now. And you have stood all this time in the wet night. I am sure that Beatrice ought to be flattered." "Not at all. It seemed so awful, and I I take such an interest " and he broke off. "Such an interest in Beatrice," said Elizabeth drily, supplying the hiatus.
There is a hiatus, it would seem, an impassable gulf, between the admission that law and order prevail in Nature, and the conclusion that law and order are manifestations of design: "What I supposed to be design in the opening of my argument is no longer design.
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