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Few can wade through the mingled solecisms in language and mistakes in science, the empty verbiage that dilates on a platitude in one place, and the jejune abstract that hurries over a knotty argument in another, without regretting that so unreadable a poet should have been preserved. And yet his book is not altogether without interest.
Platitude raised to a very high key. "Yes, my dear sir," said he, "it is but too true; I have it on good authority a gone church a lost church a ruined church a demolished church is the Church of England. Toleration to Dissenters! oh, monstrous!" "I suppose," said my host, "that the repeal of the Test Acts will be merely a precursor of the emancipation of the Papists?"
Hidden in the murk of the past ages, the argument based upon the non-existence of fossil instinct is no better able than the others to withstand the light of living realities; it crumbles under the stroke of fate; it vanishes before a La Palice platitude. Do you know the Halicti? Perhaps not.
"That is one thing, Mr. Pathurst, I always sleep like a baby . . . which means a good conscience, sir, yes, a good conscience." And while he enunciated the platitude I was uncomfortably aware that that alien thing inside his skull was watching me, studying me. In the cabin Captain West smoked a cigar and read the Bible.
Look at the Baptism, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Massacre of the Innocents, the Saint Peter walking on the Sea, the Magdalen at the feet of Jesus, the ridiculous Consummatum est look at them all: these prints are matchless for platitude, effeteness, poverty of spirit. They might have been designed by the first-comer, and are painted with muck, wine-sauce, mud!
It would be hard to overemphasize or overestimate the power of an organization that exists not to advertise but to be advertised to. I say again if I may be forgiven for the still small voice of platitude a platitude because nobody acts as if he believes it the most effective advertising is advertising that is asked for.
In the world I have not found opacity of platitude go deeper among any People. This is Difficulty First, not yet suspected by an English People, capable of great opacity on some subjects. "Difficulty Second is, That their Ministry, whom they had to force into this War, perhaps do not go zealously upon it.
"Between men on the Stock Exchange it is a platitude that you can only get a price in selling what some one else wants to buy; between men and women outside the Stock Exchange this is often considered a paradox." From the diary of Eric Lane.
'Then the stranger looked at the chamberlain; and the chamberlain bent his eyes on the ground and sighed. There it ends. Now I say, one sees there an abyss of platitude open, and the German nature swimming calmly about in it, which seems in some way or other to have its entry screened off for the English nature.
God made the country, man made the town, and the devil made the country town, was not for us an idle platitude but a burning fact, though we agreed that man was often a much more evil creator than the devil, and that the great capitals of Europe and America were the worst places for Man's heavenly spirit that Time had ever known.
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