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At least they serve to show that the Khasis have reached a high level of primitive culture; and they indicate further the strong importance of the feminine idea, which is the main interest in our inquiry. A few words must be said about the organisation of the tribes. These tribes are formed in sections of which the chief are the Khasi, Synteng, and War.
Heavy as the burden of taxation undoubtedly is, it might perhaps be borne without very serious inconvenience if the peasant families could utilise productively all their time and strength. Unfortunately in the existing economic organisation a great deal of their time and energy is necessarily wasted.
Gradually the leading Raskolniki perceived that they must make preparations, not for the Day of Judgment, but for a terrestrial future that they must create some permanent form of ecclesiastical organisation. In this work they encountered at the very outset not only practical, but also theoretical difficulties.
Bulgaria's material for a modern national organisation is being quickly improved by the upgrowth of a middle class whose sons will be able to keep their Bulgarian qualities even under the circumstances of life in Paris or other great modern city. In future, then, the courage of the people is likely to have a wiser, more reasonable leadership, and, with that, it will do wonders.
The whole thing is a gigantic mistake an organised disappointment. And then note, lastly, that in this case, as in all others, when an organisation has become effete and inoperative for its legitimate purpose, it is employed for quite other ones quite opposite ones. What is the usual plea put in for giving and attending these tedious assemblies?
In other words, in no country has the power of collective organisation been so pressed and exalted as in revolutionised France, and in no country has the free life of the individual been made to count for so little. With such force does the ancient system of temporal and spiritual organisation reign in the minds of those who think most confidently that they have cast it wholly out of them.
The place and the people were all a picture together, a picture that, when they went down to the wide sands, shimmered, in a thousand tints, with the pretty organisation of the plage, with the gaiety of spectators and bathers, with that of the language and the weather, and above all with that of our young lady's unprecedented situation.
The King knew all his secret plans and his aims, he held the clue to the whole network of his Revolutionary organisation, and the only chance he now had of ever arriving at the highest goal of his ambition was in the King's hands!
It is not an inviting task to abandon the comparatively healthy atmosphere of the battle-field, the blood-stained swamp, the murderous trench where human beings, even if communing only by bullets and push of pike, were at least dealing truthfully with each other and to descend into those subterranean regions where the effluvia of falsehood becomes almost too foul for ordinary human organisation.
The regular transmutation of motions which are at first voluntary into secondary automatic motions, as Hartley calls them, is due to a gradually effected organisation; and we may rest assured of this, that co-ordinate activity always testifies to stored-up power, either innate or acquired.
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