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"He was not," says his biographer, "free from those superstitious notions so prevalent in his country; and, although few men possessed more strength of mind in resisting the operation of false and gloomy tenets, he was sometimes led away from the principles he had adopted, to a belief in supernatural appearances."

"Captain Neeland," she said, "I am a Bretonne, but, until recently, I did not suppose myself to be superstitious.... I really am not unless except for this one matter of L’Ombre.... My English governess drove superstition out of my head.... Still, living in Finistère here in this house" she flushed again "I shall have to leave it to you.... I dread ridicule; but I am sure you are too courteous ... It required some courage for me to write to Lorient.

"I am told so; and there are various stories afloat concerning her: but of this, I assure you that I am fully persuaded than some accident will happen before we reach port, although everything, at this moment, appears so calm, and our port is so near at hand." "You are superstitious," replied Krantz; "and yet I must say that, to me, the appearance was not like a reality.

As for their purposes being superstitious, we shall be better able to judge of that when we have seen what they were what sort of a house they meant to build to God. As for their having self-interest in view, no doubt they thought that they should benefit their own souls in this life, and in the life to come. But one would hardly blame them for that, surely?

"Well," began Rosemary, "I am happy to say that is not a failing of mine." "I think everything of the kind is nonsensical," added Kate Parsons. "I'm not a bit superstitious either," volunteered Emily. "Nor I," interposed Anna. "I despise such absurdities," continued May Johnston.

And she keeps looking in a glass ball, like the labourers' women, some of them; she's sunk as low as that; so superstitious; and sometimes she tells me that she sees what he is doing, and where he is; and now and then, when his letters come, she shows me bits of them, to prove she was right. But just as often she's wrong; only she won't listen to me. She says it's Telly, Tellyopathy.

So, as she tripped gaily and lightly along the thoroughfares, the children would draw aside from her path, and whisper with superstitious fear mingled with contempt, "It's the idiot girl!" Idiot how much more of heaven's light was there in that cloud than in the rushlights that, flickering in sordid chambers, shed on dull things the dull ray esteeming themselves as stars!

If man feared death less, he would neither be a slave nor superstitious; truth would find defenders more zealous; the rights of mankind would be more hardily sustained; virtue would be intrepidly upheld: error would be more powerfully opposed; tyranny would be banished from nations: cowardice nourishes it, fear perpetuates it.

But he found the task too hard, and too distasteful, and resigned in 1873. A provisional republic was then formed, of which Castelar was the guiding spirit. But the Spaniards, trained to regard monarchy with superstitious reverence, had no sympathy with republican institutions. Don Carlos seized the opportunity to revive the claim of inalienable male succession, and raised the standard of revolt.

Aside from such cases of madness, which have often resulted in the killing and eating of children, etc., and which arouse the most superstitious horror in the minds of all Indians, the "savages" of this region are the most inoffensive imaginable.