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We girls about made up our minds that we would get together a little fund and see if we couldn't do some missionary work in that neighbourhood hire some real good artists" Abner winced at this hideous perversion of the word "hire some real good artists to go over there and let those poor creatures see what a first-class show was like; and Mr. Whyland promised to contribute " "Stop!" said Abner.
Only its sweet deception did not stay with her, and she let that go with open hands. She wanted, more than ever, the whole of Stephen Arnold, all that was so openly the Mission's and all that was so evidently God's. It will be seen that she felt in no way compelled to advise him of this her backsliding. I doubt whether such a perversion of her magnificent course of action ever occurred to her.
"You are really quite indignant against the doctor," said Elinor. "Not only against him, but against all who are willing, like him, to encourage such a miserable perversion of truth. Believe them, and you make patriotism anything, and everything, but a virtue." "Why, how now, count? Wherefore are you so sad?" "WELL, Jenny, you are going to leave us to-day, it seems," said Mr.
Or from what possible perversion of common sense are we to look like field-preachers in Zembla, holy lumps of ice, numbed into quiescence and stagnation and mumbling?"
"It is a perversion of the text," said the eager Henry Warden, "grounded on a vain play upon words a most idle paronomasia."
Men are regarded and treated, not as individuals, but always as members of a particular group. Everybody is first a citizen, and then, as a citizen, he is a member of his order of an aristocracy or a democracy, of an order of patricians or plebeians; or, in those societies which an unhappy fate has afflicted with a special perversion in their course of development, of a caste.
Catholic writers know this. Paul wrestled with this practical perversion of the loving intentions of our heavenly Father in his day. After declaring to the Romans: "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound," he raises the question: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?" He returns this horrified answer: "God forbid!
Though subject to perversion and infinitely variant in detail, community-morals and individual conscience have been the chief means of making man's life safe and wisely directed. The criterion that emerges from such a study is not, however, the bald existence of codes of morals, or of conscience, but the human welfare which those codes and that conscience exist to serve.
I shall best convey to the reader an idea of the entire perversion of thought which exists among this extraordinary people, by describing the public trial of a man who was accused of pulmonary consumption an offence which was punished with death until quite recently.
But to bury myself as a physician, stealing about from house to house, and moping over sick beds, is a sacrifice of my talents that I cannot think of without turning from the picture with disgust." "Nor can I," would be the wife's reply. "And what is more, I never will consent to such a perversion of your talents." "Why cannot you study law, even now, Charles?" she asked of him one day.
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