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Yet could she conceive life such as this prolonging itself into the hopeless years, renunciation her strength and her reward, duty a grinning skeleton at her bedside? It grew harder daily. More than a year ago she thought that the worst was over, and since then had known the solace of self-forgetful idealisms, of ascetic striving. It was all illusion, the spinning of a desolate heart.
Yes," he continued; "for what few understand is that drink is an idealism and," he presently added with a laugh, "and, of course, like all idealisms, it has its dangers." With a monomaniac, conversation is apt to limit itself to monologue; so, while Henry was greatly interested in this odd talk, it left him but little to say. "I'm afraid I shock you a little, Mr.
Our modern town is thus in a very real sense, one not hopeless, but as hopeful as may be, a veritable purgatory; that is a struggle of lower and higher idealisms, amid the respective expressions and outcomes of these. Does he not see the dark fate of some, the striving and rising hope of others, the redemption also?
"These demands are," he proceeds, "romantic. They are founded on visions, idealisms, hopes, and affections, and the regulation of the purse is, in its essence, regulation of the imagination and the heart." With the demands which originate in men's equal needs we are not concerned here.
His cultivated instincts led him directly to an intimacy with his patient's idealisms, and he was one to whom every right-souled sufferer could trust his deepest confidence without reserve. "I fear, little girl, your ambitions are only for those of unquestioned strength. You are but a pigmy.
Nor does she show any knowledge of other philosophic idealisms nor any acquaintance with any solution of the problems she was facing save the commonplaces of evangelical orthodoxy. "Science and Health" knows nothing also of any medical science save the empirical methods of the medical science of 1860 and 1870.
Gratified by the smile of interest, Warricombe added: 'There are forces of madness; I have shown you that I make allowance for them. But they are only dangerous so long as privilege allies itself with hypocrisy. The task of the modern civiliser is to sweep away sham idealisms. 'I agree with you, Godwin replied.
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally. Like other idealisms, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy. Our clergy are positively tumbling over each other in their eagerness to be appointed court-chaplain to King Demos.
Haddon Chambers, The Awakening, turned on a sudden conversion the "awakening," in fact, referred to in the title. A professional lady-killer, a noted Don Juan, has been idly making love to a country maiden, whose heart is full of innocent idealisms.
It is the note which will bring mankind back to its senses when the hideous passions, the false idealisms, and the sordid greeds behind this world tragedy are shown up for what they are." By Dr. Alfred Salter in "The Labour Leader," December 31, 1914. "This essential friendliness, not between nations, but between people of different nations, is one of the biggest facts of civilization.
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