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And I'm here to explain. Mrs. Freddy said if she wasn't back on the stroke 'Oh, I dare say I'm a trifle early. It was a theory that presented fewer difficulties than that he should be kept waiting. 'I was to beg you to give her a few minutes' grace in any case. Instead of finding a seat, he stood looking down at the charming face.
Such was his view, though I don't think he ever carried it so far as he was accused of doing. Nay, I think he sometimes had to prick up his zeal before assuming the flagellum. It was to Douglas's credit that he always felt the want of a deeper and holier theory, and that, with all his gaiety, he felt it incumbent on him to use his pen as an implement of what he thought reform.
These are questions that can only be answered by guess; but perhaps the following theory may in some degree be found satisfactory.
Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet is president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed ... they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that was twined with it or educed out of it departs as a dream.
At other times she occupied herself with her Bible she had adopted, as will be guessed, the grateful theory of Mrs. Sand, that she had only changed the sphere of her ministrations.
"But the worst of that theory is," I said, "that one lays down canons of taste, which are very neat and pretty; and then there comes some new writer of genius, knocks all the old canons into fragments, and establishes a new law. Canons of art seem to me sometimes nothing more than classifications of the way that genius works.
This theory of a universal Nothing is the real purport of Sugata's doctrine; the theories of the momentariness of all existence, &c., which imply the acknowledgment of the reality of things, were set forth by him merely as suiting the limited intellectual capacities of his pupils. This is the real view of Buddha, and its truth is proved by the following considerations.
Perhaps they were, but they did not say so, and others conspicuously Mr. Romanes himself did not understand them to be meaning what he now discovers that they meant. When Mr. Considering how recently Mr. Romanes wrote the words just quoted, he has soon forgotten them. I do not, as I have said already, and never did, claim to have originated the theory I put forward in "Life and Habit."
In fact, phenomena are claimed to occur which it is difficult or impossible to explain on any such theory, or on any other theory yet promulgated.
The praiseworthy object of pursuing everywhere moral good as the supreme aim, which has already brought forth in art so much mediocrity, has caused also in theory a similar prejudice.
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