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I think I picked it up from Wallis, or Cook, or some other plain spoken voyager. The crew gaze in pardonable admiration, but the hero, in a long speech, reproves them for their lightmindedness, reminds them of their sacred mission, and informs them that, The soldiers of the cross should turn their eyes From carnal lusts and heathen vanities;
They put away all the softness and lightmindedness of women, and inured their womanish spirit to masculine ruthlessness. They sought, moreover, so zealously to be skilled in warfare, that they might have been thought to have unsexed themselves. Those especially, who had either force of character or tall and comely persons, used to enter on this kind of life.
To own the truth to you, Deerslayer, I should have married the gal two years since, if it had not been for two particular things, one of which was this very lightmindedness." "And what may have been the other?" demanded the hunter, who continued to eat like one that took very little interest in the subject. "T'other was an insartainty about her having me. The hussy is handsome, and she knows it.
"My dear friend," said the old man, "I am sick in body and soul." "You haven't got a soul." "But the trouble is in the heart." "Cor, cordis, the heart; then you have eaten too much. Take a purge, Monsieur; then you will be lighter than lightmindedness itself." "Prescribe me some proper medicine, man; I am dying." "Then go to a watering-place." "Like a minister who is in disgrace; no, thank you."
The barriers to interior consciousness, which drive the psychic nature this way and that, are these: sickness, inertia, doubt, lightmindedness, laziness, intemperance, false notions, inability to reach a stage of meditation, or to hold it when reached.
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