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"You mean to tell me," he said, "that if every time I remember, when I am dwelling upon the subject which pains me, that I must make my thoughts turn to other things which give me pleasure, that gradually the new thoughts will banish the old?" "Of course, I mean that," Moravia told him. "Everything comes in cycles; that is why people get into habits.
Sabine was the first to note the coincidence between this unlooked-for result and Schwabe's sun-spot period. He showed that, so far as observation had yet gone, the two cycles of change agreed perfectly both in duration and phase, maximum corresponding to maximum, minimum to minimum.
So the earth, every three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes and a fraction, completes a revolution; and then it begins a new cycle—that is to say, the first cycle is again renewed. In the same way, for the whole universe, whether for the heavens or for men, there are cycles of great events, of important facts and occurrences.
Motors and cycles he treated with tolerant disregard, but pigs, wheelbarrows, piles of stones by the roadside, perambulators in a village street, gates painted too aggressively white, and sometimes, but not always, the newer kind of beehives, turned him aside from his tracks in vivid imitation of the zigzag course of forked lightning.
Not many writers live long enough to see themselves recognized as classics; the benign judgment is more frequently tardy; and then it happens, as De Musset says, that "Fame is a plant which grows upon a tomb." It takes years of repetition to impress new ideas in literature into the hearts and memories of men; and, as literary cycles move, the age of Holmes is still new.
At least it indicates a feeling, perhaps peculiar to himself, perhaps general, that the world stood on the brink of a great change in the cycles, and that an Adept Leader might be expected, who should usher the new order in. His eyes may have been opened to the possibilities of the young Octavian.
They gratefully thanked her; and when they found their cycles they discovered that the tickets were neatly pinned into each back tire! Desirous of buying a camera, a certain fair young woman inspected the stock of a local shopkeeper. "Is this a good one?" she asked, as she picked up a dainty little machine. "What is it called?" "That's the Belvedere," said the handsome young shopman politely.
See also for 1914-1919 data, Research Report Number 20 of the National Industrial Conference Board on "War Time Increases of Wages." W. C. Mitchell, "Business Cycles," pages 468-9. W. C. Mitchell, "Business Cycles," page 483. The increased cost of labor arises from many causes besides the increase of wages.
Similarly Aristotle will speak of degraded animal forms, and sometimes write as though the animal world could sink back into the vegetable altogether. Admitting, however, something like progress within the different cycles, we must ask a little more about the kind of progress which Aristotle would have desired.
And hence it becomes obvious that the "origin of the nebula" presents a difficulty neither greater nor less than "the origin of the planets," since, "if we may go back as far as we please," we can entertain no scientific doubt that we should come to a time, prior even to the nebula, when the substance of the solar system existed merely as such i.e., in an almost or in a wholly undifferentiated form, the product, no doubt, of endless cycles of previous evolutions and dissolutions of formal differentiations.
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