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Merton thought of the volume in M. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The volume slowly slid from the shelf, glided through the air to Merton, and gently subsided on the table near him, open at the word Moa. Merton walked across to the bookcase, took all the volumes from the shelf, and carefully examined the backs and sides for springs and mechanical advantages. There were none.
Wheeler dropped into the deep willow chair, realizing that she was very tired, now that she had left the stove and the heat of the kitchen. She began weakly to wave the palm leaf fan before her face. "It's said to be such a beautiful city. Perhaps the Germans will spare it, as they did Brussels. They must be sick of destruction by now. Get the encyclopaedia and see what it says.
As for the Portuguese merchants, we permit them to enter our ports, there to continue their accustomed trade, and to remain in our estates provided our affairs need this. But we forbid them to bring any foreign priests into the country, under the penalty of the confiscation of their ships and goods."* *Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition; article "Japan," by Brinkley.
The grown-up is bursting to explain, and ought to be humoured; or else he obviously doesn't know, and ought to be shown up. But these would not be my motives if the editor of The Children's Encyclopaedia took me for a walk and allowed me to ask him questions.
The propaganda of which the Encyclopaedia was the centre was reinforced by the independent publications of some of the leading men who collaborated or were closely connected with their circle, notably those of Diderot himself, Baron d'Holbach, and Helvetius. The optimism of the Encyclopaedists was really based on an intense consciousness of the enlightenment of their own age.
The harassing slowness of Chancery proceedings is proverbial; I am therefore especially desirous that you should not count upon this money." "I shall never do that, papa. I should certainly like a fine edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for Valentine, by-and-by, as he says that is essential for a literary man; and a horse, for people say literary men ought to take horse exercise.
What shall we think of the relations of the church and family as to their comparative rights and our duty to them? Do you agree that the family is the most important religious institution? See Webster, Primitive Secret Societies, chaps. i, ii. On the place of the family in different religious systems see the fine article under "Family" in Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.
"He is so very quiet," Lady Anningford went on, "and, whenever he speaks, it is something worth listening to; and if you get on any subject of books, he is a perfect encyclopaedia. He gives me the impression of all the forces of power and will, concentrated in a man. I wonder who he really is? Not that it matters a bit in these days. Do you think there is any Jew in him?
We could see through their flimsy pretensions to originality much as a schoolmaster recognises the extracts from the encyclopaedia in his boys' essays. As with this Judas trade, so it is with other more important arts and sciences in this country. The old types descend, almost unchanged, from generation to generation. Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
For the rest this essence may be as simple as you will, if the nature directed upon it is unified and simple; and it would be mere intellectual snobbery to condemn pleasure because it has not so many subdivisions in it as an encyclopaedia of the sciences.
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