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Updated: June 26, 2025
Of course it is remotely possible that some of them would like to do it now, but public opinion would not let them; things have changed, and the change is in the direction of a higher general morality. If any man feels pessimistic about the present, let him study the past and he will feel reassured. Those who maintain that society is not morally better but only more sentimental, beg the question.
"I don't understand that it ends well?" "Unless you consider the implicated marriage of the young people a good ending. Haxard himself, of course, is past all surgery. But the thing isn't pessimistic, as I understand, for its doctrine is that harm comes only from doing wrong." The manager laughed. "Oh, the average public would consider that very pessimistic.
MacMasters will let us shell the Hun?" demanded Frenchy eagerly. "She'll more likely shell us," declared Torry, inclined to be pessimistic. "I bet we can run away from her," cried Ikey Rosenmeyer. "Say! this tender is no sub chaser. In a race with the S. P. 888, for instance, she wouldn't have a chance."
'Of course, journalism isn't like a business that you can build up and constantly improve; but you can at least establish a reputation amongst newspaper readers. 'You can't do that so well nowadays, returned Henry, who seemed in pessimistic vein, 'owing to the present demand for getting well-known names attached to articles.
His pessimistic estimate of the actual world drives him to a disbelief in a personal God. We do not ignore the sad facts of life; even the Christian is often saddened by the mysteries which he cannot explain.
Once the Germans assumed in accordance with the race dogma that some European races are born to rule and others to obey, it was inevitable that they should draw the further inference that they of all races were the dominant race. It is true that the belief of the Calvinist in religious predestination may lead to a pessimistic as well as to an optimistic conclusion.
Indigestion, with its various ramifications, is alone responsible for most of the crimes, catastrophes and cruelties, public and private discord; for it tinges human thought and vision with pessimistic black or bloody red or envious green or degenerate yellow instead of the normal, serene and invigorating white. All the world's great public disturbers have been diseased.
But in Riseholme it would have been rank heresy to dream, even in the most pessimistic moments, of its being anything but a ducking-pond.
But, as an anti-climax, he always showed up alive in vacation time. During his college years he had apparently forgotten her, had made himself conspicuous by some highly pessimistic theories, and had tried the Byronic gesture. Then, after Commencement, meeting her unexpectedly, he had turned a yellowish white.
And I was not pessimistic. I swear I was not pessimistic. I was merely bored. I had seen the same show too often, listened too often to the same songs and the same jokes. I knew too much about the box office receipts. I knew the cogs of the machinery behind the scenes so well that the posing on the stage, and the laughter and the song, could not drown the creaking of the wheels behind.
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