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Presently they would altogether lose their power to wound and to distress her, while this freedom and the closer union, gained by means of them, continued immutable and fixed.
The majority of them, he remarks, are so far constant, "within the range of our experience," and their forms and characters so faithfully handed down through thousands of generations, that they admit of being treated as if they were permanent and immutable.
Indeed, even to Reed himself, that was the most tragic phase of the whole tragic situation: that his hours of restless longing seemed to have come to a final end. Always too sane to waste regrets upon futilities, he had come now to a point of passive acceptance of the immutable bad in his surroundings, an active effort only to snatch at whatever good remained.
Remedies certainly exist for all curses, but no remedy can avail those cursed by their mother. Hearing that this curse hath been uttered in the presence of the Immutable, the Infinite, and the True one, my heart trembleth. Surely, our annihilation hath come. Otherwise why should not the Immutable Lord prevent our mother while uttering the curse?
More than once Mary had taken courage, and had talked to her grandmother of the world beyond, the blessed hope of re-union with the friends we have lost, in a new and brighter life, only to be met by the sceptic's cynical smile, the materialist's barren creed. 'My dearest, we know nothing except the immutable laws of material life.
It is now a living thing, immutable, indissoluble. It commands your obedience and mine." Lee was silent and Mrs. Marshall cried: "Surely this is true, Robert!" "My dear Mr. Blair," Lee slowly began, "your claim is the beginning of the end of law the beginning of anarchy. If under the law, Virginia is right, is it not my duty to defend her?
Charlie Ferrola said that the Van Astrachans were obtuse; and so, to a certain degree, they were. In social matters they had a kind of confiding simplicity. They were so much accustomed to regard positive morals in the light of immutable laws of Nature, that it would not have been easy to have made them understand that sliding scale of estimates which is in use nowadays.
People are thinking and feeling generously, if not living justly, in our time; it is a day of anxiety to be saved from the curse that is on selfishness, of eager question how others shall be helped, of bold denial that the conditions in which we would fain have rested are sacred or immutable.
"Now two hypotheses may be taken into consideration as to a modification in this state of things: "Either the attraction of the moon will end by drawing it towards her, and the travellers will reach the goal of their journey, "Or the projectile, maintained in an immutable orbit, will gravitate round the lunar disc till the end of time.
The radical point in the new philosophy, as it applies to the human nature in particular, is the pivot on which all turns here, here as elsewhere in the writings of this school, the distinction of 'the double self, the distinction between the particular and private nature, with its unenlightened instincts of passion, humour, will, caprice, that self which is changeful, at war with itself, self-inconsistent, and, therefore, truly, no SELF, since the true self is the principle of identity and immutability, the distinction between that 'private' nature when it is developed instinctively as 'selfishness, and that rational immutable self which is constitutionally present though latent, in all men, and one in them all; that noble special human form which embraces and reconciles in its intention, the private good with the good of that worthier whole whereof we are individually parts and members; 'this is the distinction on which all turns here. For this philosophy refuses, on philosophical grounds, to accept this low, instinctive private nature, in any dressing up of accidental power as the god of its idolatry, in place of that 'divine or angelical nature, which is the perfection of the human form, and the true sovereignty.
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