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The nations in which women have influenced national aims face the nation that glorifies brute force. America opposes the exaltation of the glittering sword; opposes the determination of one nation to dominate the world; opposes the claim that the head of one ruling family is the direct and only representative of the Creator; and, above all, America opposes the idea that might makes right.
"I don't expect Lady Maude will be very willing; she always opposes us, does she not?" "Sometimes," said Margaret drily. "He is not so rich as De la Zouch," pursued Dorothy, "so I don't think she will agree to it at first." "To what? What do you mean?
Since we are not participants of it, our protest would be futile, and even if we played a part in it, we should be as foolish as we should be weak, not to recognize that the will which opposes us is as inflexible as our own "such is life" that is our ultimate comment.
How often, in fact, we think we feel, against society a moral discontent, while we are simply soured by the obstacles that it opposes to our inclination.
It will, however, be well to consider the argument that M. Bayle puts forward to show that one cannot refute the objections which reason opposes to the Mysteries. 'It is enough for me', he says, 'that it be unanimously acknowledged that the Mysteries of the Gospel are above reason.
The text of this political phoenomenon must be well known in England I shall, therefore, confine myself to giving you a general idea of its spirit and tendency, It is, compared to regular government, what force is to mechanism, or the usual and peaceful operations of nature to the ravages of a storm it substitutes violence for conciliation, and sweeps with precipitate fury all that opposes its devastating progress.
He roundly says that they are lying, and the worst sort of lie an acted lie: 'They do not the truth. Then, with a quick turn, he opposes to these pretenders the men who really are in fellowship with God, and in my text lays down the principle that walking in the light is essential to fellowship with God.
They know that force is that which moves, or tends to move, matter; and that the greater the force, the more surely it will move matter, or anything that opposes it.
This teaching opposes the Atomic Theory of the Vaisheshika system, and holds that the atoms are not indestructible nor eternal, but may be resolved back into a primal substance called Prakriti. Prakriti is held to be an universal, eternal energy or ethereal substance, something similar to certain Western scientific conceptions of an Universal Ether.
But the traits of his young manhood, intensified, are still his. He is handsome, and attractive, and rich, and influential, but he is also cold-blooded, and greedy for money until it is his ruling passion, villainously unscrupulous, and mercilessly unforgiving toward any one who opposes his will; and his capacity for undying hatred is appalling."
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