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They will reproduce the florid ornament of late Gothic as slavishly as the steady Academician reproduces the pimples on an orange; and if they do attempt to simplify some of them have noticed the simplification of the primitives they do so in the spirit, not of an artist, but of the "sedulous ape." Simplification is the conversion of irrelevant detail into significant form.
But he must, none the less, have realised, as all prophets and seers have done, that solitariness of soul and freedom from the petty complexities of social life are necessary to the mystic whose constant endeavour is to simplify and to winnow, the transient from the eternal.
Even when the author meant to be most lucid Bean found him not too easy. "In order to simplify the theory of the Karmic cycle," dictated the white-bearded one for his Introduction, "let us think of the subplanes of the astral plane as horizontal divisions, and of the types of matter belonging to the seven great planetary Logoi as perpendicular divisions crossing these others at right angles."
Infractions of this law should be punishable with death. And eighthly, and last, I would retain ZUG and SCHLAG, with their pendants, and discard the rest of the vocabulary. This would simplify the language. I have now named what I regard as the most necessary and important changes.
'I wish I were a man! she said all at once, and the parasol bent dangerously as she gave it a particularly vicious twist, leaning upon it at the same time. 'It would certainly simplify matters for me, if you were, said Lushington coldly. She looked up with a hurt expression. 'Oh, please don't go back to that way of talking! she said. 'It's bad enough, as it is!
Would it not he better to simplify the faith in other and familiar words, to reduce the number of 'essentials'? In order to discover these essentials, surely the inquirer must turn to the Bible, the record of that miraculous revelation which was given to deliver man's unassisted reason from the perils of ignorance and doubt.
This is the method of manufacturing a bowstring as devised by the late Mr. Maxson and described in American Archery. Some few alterations have been introduced to simplify the technique. It is advisable to take the threads in your hands as you follow the directions.
Of course there may be cases, in fact there often will be cases, where particular words will require special explanation, but they will be comparatively few, and instead of making efforts to avoid them, it will be better to let them come. The pupils will be interested and profited by the explanation. Perhaps some may ask what harm it will do to simplify language when talking to children.
"I don't know that I expect to convert you; but at least I am glad to make my position clear. I don't assume that I am in the right. I only know that I am trying to do what appears to me to be right, trying to simplify the issues of life, to unravel the tangle in which so many people seem to me to acquiesce helplessly and timidly." The Mill The Stream's Pilgrimage
"Oh, it's as simplifying for him that I speak of it." "The difficulty really is that he's a person with so many ideas that it's particularly hard to simplify for him. That's exactly of course what Aunt Maud has been trying. He won't," Kate firmly continued, "make up his mind about me." "Well," Milly smiled, "give him time." Her friend met it in perfection. "One is doing that one is.
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