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He carried into the study of character which had begun in Addison with an eye to externals and eccentricities, a minute faculty of inspection which watched and recorded unconscious mental and emotional processes. To do this he employed a method which was, in effect, a compromise between that of the autobiography, and that of the tale told by an invisible narrator.
The common sentiment of mankind is offended by heterodoxy in mean attire; for there we see the self-convicted villain the criminal caught in the act; we try it and convict it by instinct without the ceremony of a jury; and so thoroughly aware of our promptitude in this respect has our arch-enemy become since his mediaeval disgraces that his particular advice to his followers is now to scrupulously copy the world in externals; never to appear poorly clothed, nor to impart deceptive communications in bad handwriting.
The reader has seen enough, however, to understand that, in religious matters at least in the forms and externals of religion he was a rigid disciplinarian. Upon grace before and after meat he always insisted. His own prayers of this sort might have been unctuous, but they were never short; and the meats were very apt to grow cold, while the impatience of his hearers grew warm, before he finished.
It is in this scene that the local color is not confined to externals alone, but infuses the music as well. Very skilfully Verdi makes use of two melodies which are saturated with the languorous spirit of the East. The first is the invocation of Ptah, chanted by an invisible priestess to the accompaniment of a harp: The second is the melody of the sacred dance:
Though unable to originate these ideas, the Japanese yet proved themselves capable of understanding and appreciating them in a measure at least. They were at first attracted to that which related chiefly to the externals of civilization, to that which would contribute immediately to the complete political centralization of the nation.
Family circles, cooped up, timid and distant, keep their doors closed to the general public. No one has yet dared to permanently set up here their Lares and Penates. The subordination of family life to externals, and insincerity of social compacts, are destined to make California a mere abiding place for several generations.
So far as the externals of portraiture were concerned, there can be no doubt that his art benefited much from his early military life.
He woke up to externals again at the sound of a sentence or two from the monk. "I beg your pardon," he said. "What was that?" "I was saying that the news from Germany is disquieting." "Why?" "Oh! nothing definite. They expect trouble. They say that the Emperor is extraordinarily interested in this girl's case, and that the Socialists of Berlin are watching him.
Those who can take the broad road of selfishness unmolested, and choose the narrow path of high endeavour instead, seem to me greater than those who overcome mere externals. Many such men have existed, and the steady, slow, but certain progress of the world from barbarism to civilization, from accepted cannibalism and slavery to ideals of brotherhood, we owe to them.
"Well, yes, I think I should have known it." "O go 'long! Somebody told you! But I swear, Mr. Fair, I wonder, sir, you're not more struck with Miss Halliday. Now, I go in for mind and heart. I don't give a continental for externals; and yet did you ever see such glorious eyes as Fan Miss Halliday's? Now, honest Ingin! did you, ever?" Mr. Fair admitted that Miss Halliday's eyes danced.
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