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Roberts had been served, and the three hours which must necessarily elapse before that happy moment looked very long and very unproductive to him, especially as he had found no answer as yet to the question which so grievously perplexed him.
"Oh, I want more than that," was the retort; "I want a list of your deaths not necessarily for publication. If the public were to hear of it, they would pull the place down about your ears, and probably hang you on your own water-tower." Von Holzen laughed. "Ah, my fine gentleman, if there is any hanging up to be done, you are in it, too," he said.
In selecting such passages as I have in these letters I have necessarily followed my own taste, and taste as I said when I first began writing to you is illusive. I could do no more than cite that which makes my own heart beat faster from a compelling sense of its nobility and beauty.
Men of cultivated minds see, in my old house and chimney, a goodly old elephant-and-castle. All feeling hearts will sympathize with me in what I am now about to add. The surgical operation, above referred to, necessarily brought into the open air a part of the chimney previously under cover, and intended to remain so, and, therefore, not built of what are called weather-bricks.
The character and prophetical career of this individual will necessarily be fully displayed in the progress of this work. There is, however, one trait of his character which may be appropriately mentioned in this place his disposition to boast, not only of his own standing and importance, but also of the rank and respectability of the family to which he belonged.
This kind of coercion tends to increase. Is its extension necessarily an encroachment upon liberty, or are the elements of value secured by collective control distinct from the elements of value secured by individual choice, so that within due limits each may develop side by side?
In every case you try and discover and act upon a plausible equity that must necessarily be based on arbitrary assumptions. There is no equity in the universe, in the various spectacle outside our minds, and the most terrible nightmare the human imagination has ever engendered is a Just God, measuring, with himself as the Standard, against finite men.
And although Eliot became in later life a more accurate reporter of the intellectual unrest of her day, and had probed deeper into the mystery and the burden of this unintelligible world, great novels are not necessarily made in that way and the majority of those who love her cleave to the less burdened, more unforced expression of her power.
Such a striking natural phenomenon as a storm, a disease, a waterfall, are recognised as "animate"; while fruits and herbs, and even inconspicuous animals, such as house-flies, maggots, lemmings, sheep, are not ordinarily apprehended as "animate" except when taken collectively. As here used the term does not necessarily imply an indwelling soul or spirit.
For if any storm should fall upon us, one of two things, they say, must necessarily befall the ships, either that they flee far from Libya or be destroyed upon this headland. What then under the present circumstances will be more to our advantage to choose? to have the ships alone destroyed, or to have lost everything, men and all?
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