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The protospatharius was the chief of the Imperial body-guard, of which the spatharocandidati constituted the élite. The Wisdom of the Indians. Appeared in 1890 in The Universal Review. The idea was suggested by an incident in Dr. Bastian's travels in Burma. The Dumb Oracle. Appeared in the University Magazine for June, 1878.
Lawrence looked back at his companion; she was holding her hat idly, huddled limply on the cushions. "Come," she said again, adding mockingly "If you are so ferocious, we shall get there too soon." Lawrence gave up his oar and lay down at her feet. Bastian's sweep dipped daintily in and out; the good current was doing his work. They drifted silently on near Venice.
I hope the matter will not be allowed to drop. Down, Beckenham, Kent. August 28, 1872. My dear Wallace, I have at last finished the gigantic job of reading Dr. Bastian's book, and have been deeply interested in it. You wished to hear my impression, but it is not worth sending. He seems to me an extremely able man, as indeed I thought when I read his first essay.
The fear of waking sleeping persons really refers to the widely-spread superstition that during sleep the soul leaves the body; numerous instances of which occur in Bastian's work. Informe, i. 14. Instead of pressing lip to lip, they place the mouth and nose upon the cheek, and inhale the breath strongly. Their form of speech is not 'Give me a kiss, but 'Smell me. "
I am now reviewing a much more important book and one that, if I mistake not, will really compel you sooner or later to modify some of your views, though it will not at all affect the main doctrine of Natural Selection as applied to the higher animals. I allude, of course, to Bastian's "Beginnings of Life," which you have no doubt got. It is hard reading, but intensely interesting.
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