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The text was, There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. I will not attempt to reproduce it here, though many of its passages are still vivid in my memory.
Did Cornelia know what she was about? had she netted beforehand all the meshes of this web she was throwing over him? the admirable mixture of frankness and subtlety, nature and art must it not have been planned and calculated beforehand, to bewilder and mislead? It may well be doubted. No preconceived and elaborated programme can come up to the inspiration of the moment, which is genius.
The sweet passionate melody went to his heart from the first note; it was glowing and languishing with inspiration, happiness and beauty; it swelled and melted away; it touched on all that is precious, mysterious, and holy on earth. It breathed of deathless sorrow and mounted dying away to the heavens. Lavretsky drew himself up, and rose cold and pale with ecstasy.
"How much have you got?" "What is that to you?" demanded Carl. "I want what you've got, that's all." "I'll not give it to you." "All right then, I'll walk to Fairview and tell what I know about that explosion." "We'll say you did it!" cried Carl, struck by a sudden inspiration. "Won't do no good I can prove you're guilty," answered Kiddy Leech.
The Koran was ahead of its day, but having been by a theory of inspiration petrified into artificial finality it became the enemy of all opinions which would pass beyond its own. When, now, one contrasts Mohammedanism with Christianity, one finds an important difference. For all our temptation, succumbed to by multitudes, to make the Bible a Koran, Christianity has had a progressive revelation.
A purpose, in its turn, prompted by his sense of right and justice, and those things which have their inspiration in a broad generosity of spirit. So it was that under all conditions his conscience remained at peace. It was supported by such feelings that he faced the tasks which the desperate heart of Unaga imposed upon him.
Norah had a brilliant inspiration, and suggested "Chestnuts," and Master Raymond sat in comfort, directing the efforts of poor red-faced Bob, as he bent over the fire and roasted his fingers as well as the nuts.
He solemnly maintained the opinion "that there was a strange kind of magic bias which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our character and conduct." How many Caesars and Pompeys, he would say, by mere inspiration of their names have been rendered worthy of them!
Browning's life which falls practically into the present period of our history: his withdrawal from Shelley of the devotion of more than forty years on account of an act of heartlessness towards his first wife which he held to have been proved against him. The sweet and the bitter lay, indeed, very close to each other at the sources of Mr. Browning's inspiration.
The supreme inspiration is the common weal. Humanity hungers for international peace, and we crave it with all mankind. My most reverent prayer for America is for industrial peace, with its rewards, widely and generally distributed, amid the inspirations of equal opportunity. No one justly may deny the equality of opportunity which made us what we are.