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In these memoirs, the point is made obvious that Fiona Macleod is not merely a nom de plume; neither is she an obsessing personality; a guide or "control," as the Spiritualists know that phenomenon.
Again like a monk, he was depressed and in the grip of an obsessing lassitude, seized with the need of self-communion and with a desire to have nothing in common with the profane who were, for him, the utilitarian and the imbecile.
The necessity to go loomed suddenly insistent, became the obsessing matter, and he staggered to his feet. Flight suggested disguise and he went to the bedroom and clawed about in the bottom of the cupboard for the old suitcase which held the clothes he had worn on his Sacramento trips.
The strain was frightful. "It is this: whatever you may see little tricks of speech or movement you must not for one instant yield to the thought that the creature that is obsessing him is what he thinks it is. Remember the thing is wholly evil, wholly evil; but it may, perhaps, do its utmost to hide that, and to keep up the illusion.
'I haven't time, he said; 'the present is too obsessing, the fight is too hard and insistent. Mr. Chamberlain in the early days of Tariff Reform, told me much the same thing. Perhaps we may say that men of action never look back. And so it was with General Booth.
Head sunk in hands, the bitterness of it all the awful, ghastly, horror of the things that he had done was obsessing him body and soul and brain and heart. The fires of the uttermost hell were flaring through his very being. Then it was that the woman beckoned to the child of the man that belonged to her. "Come here, dear," she said, voice modulated. The man might not hear yet.
Removed from all her past, from the sights and the people that suggested those obsessing thoughts which had filled her waking hours with dreariness, she had sunk into the simple routine of Grosvenor as the tired body sinks into a soft bed. The daily sight of the snowy fields, the frozen hillsides black with forests, and the dry spirituous air, lifted her.
Still, she liked and admired him. And she felt an awe, which was agreeable to her, of his tremendous enterprise and his obstinate volition. That faculty which he possessed, of uprooting himself and uprooting others, put her in fear of him. The enormous affair had been accomplished. This thought had been obsessing Hilda all the afternoon and evening.
I strove to dispel this obsessing thought, resolutely fixing my attention upon a tall Etruscan vase in the corner of the window, near to the shop door. Was I losing my senses indeed? A doubt of my own sanity momentarily possessed me. For, struggle as I would to dispel the illusion there, looking out at me over that ancient piece of pottery, was the bewitching face of the slave-girl!
We do not want to fight; we conceive the idea of fighting and the idea carries us away; we do not want to hang ourselves; we have the obsessing idea of hanging ourselves and this thought runs away with us. HIS MORAL SYSTEM. Spinoza wrote a system of morality. Is it not radically impossible to write a system of morality when the author does not believe in free-will?
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