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"Speaking of which," said I, "I met your father no later than this morning." "Did you?" she cried, with a voice of joy that seemed to mock at me. "You saw James More? You will have spoken with him, then?" "I did even that," said I. Then I think things went the worst way for me that was humanly possible. She gave me a look of mere gratitude. "Ah, thank you for that!" says she.
Many things which are humanly speaking impossible are of the most common occurrence and the theologian knew it. It is only by the use of this saving clause that one may safely moralize or generalize or indulge in the mildest form of prediction.
He must realize, too, that, even if such a centralization of power and responsibility were humanly possible, our National Government is unsuited for the task. The electorate is too numerous and heterogeneous; its interests and needs are too diverse. Shall the conduct of citizens of Mississippi be prescribed by vote of congressmen from New York, or supervised at the expense of New York taxpayers?
If all Americans are like him, America will soon become a force in the world. I have taken a fancy to him; and you know what they say of your father no formality with those whom he likes. Humanly, I am right; but in the virtue of everyday events in court life, I am wrong." She moved uneasily. He went on: "Herbeck has spoken of it, the older women speak of it; and they all say "
When I look at my ain celeebrity I joost ask, as the Psawmist asked before me, 'Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? It seems ye've something to say to me," he added, suddenly reverting to the object of Anne's visit. "Is it humanly possible that ye can ha' come a' the way to Pairth for naething but that?"
The Madagascar Mission was, humanly speaking, a failure; the natives were hostile, the missionaries not sufficiently numerous; it was necessary in the end to give up the enterprise. The Lazarists were at work also in Poland, in Ireland, and in the Hebrides.
Indeed in Walpole's day it might almost have seemed as if the stage required censorship less than the ballad. Probably, if it had been thought humanly possible to prevent the publication and the circulation of scurrilous poems against eminent men and women, Walpole might have ventured on the experiment.
Let it be understood that every one, male or female, rich or poor, learned or ignorant, is expected to qualify not in the whole programme, but first of all and as far as humanly possible in the primary condition of physical health and development, and then after that in some one, at any rate, of the above-mentioned or similar trades so that in case of general need or distress he can do something of use.
You stop the arm of a murderer, or arrest the finger of a pickpurse; but is not the guilt incurred as much by the intent as if never so much acted? Why children are hurried off, and old reprobates of a hundred left, whose trial humanly we may think was complete at fifty, is among the obscurities of providence, The very notion of a state of probation has darkness in it.
The idea appeared crazy but was equally on a par with the events we witnessed daily. Myself, I planned to take no chances; if it were humanly possible. We were all ordered to parade for the inoculation. I hid myself with a few others and so escaped the operation.
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