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But the progress of mankind shows everywhere the growth of a life higher in nature than that of physical or animal existence. Some kind of total-life has been formed in which the individual can participate; and in the participation of which he can be carried far beyond physical things and beyond his own individual interests.
The horde of impecunious babblers and busybodies attracted by such a bait would trample down the class of men who compose the present House of Commons, and who are, in various ways, at touch with all the multiform interests of the nation.
But they would find his card in the hall, and if the man had left any message they would find that too. "What are you?" he demanded. "Who are you your name I don't care about that. But it interests me to class people, and up to now I have failed with you." "I " He stopped. Ansell reflected that there are worse answers. "I really don't know what I am.
There were a few who understood their real interests, like the old Premier-President Mathieu Mole, and these hoped that by standing between the two parties they might get the only right thing done, namely, to convoke the States-General, which is what really answers to our own English Parliament.
I had the general design well in mind when I began to write it, but as it advanced it compelled into its course incidents, interests, individualities, which I had not known lay near, and it specialized and amplified at points which I had not always meant to touch, though I should not like to intimate anything mystical in the fact.
Free trade, in such circumstances, must lead to a destruction of important interests, and a total subversion of the balance of society in both the kingdoms subjected to it. To be conviced of this, we have only to look at the present condition of the British, or the past fate of the Roman empire.
If he succeeds by being really a more efficient man of business than his neighbours, he is only doing what, in the interests of all, it is desirable that he should do.
Under their control rates will be made chiefly for the benefit of clamorous local interests; and little by little the economic organization of the country, so far as affected by the action of commission government, would become the increasing rigid victim of routine management.
Virtue goes out of him into others." ... "He is identified in the mind with all select and holy images, with the supreme interests of the human race."
Morny stopped again, and Rodd gazed at him impatiently. "Here, I say," he cried, "what a tantalising sort of chap you are! Why, I could tell a story better than you." "Why, I have told you the story," said Morny. "No, you haven't. You keep stopping short when you come to what interests me most." "Nonsense!
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