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"I don't care about truth. I want some happiness." "Well, if you've got a decent mind the second has got to be qualified by the first. Any simple soul can delude himself with mental garbage." "I don't care," she held out stoutly, "and, what's more, I'm not propounding any doctrine." The argument faded off, but reoccurred to Anthony several times thereafter.
She had learned to dread her father's fondness for starting topics which led to religious discussions of a somewhat heated nature. But as I did not speak, Mr. Harland was placed in the embarrassing position of a person propounding a theory which no one shows any eagerness to accept or to deny, and, looking slightly confused, he went on in a lighter and more casual way
There, in the States, as also here in England, you shall from day to day hear men propounding, in very loud language, advanced theories of political action, the assertion of which is supposed to be necessary to the end which they have in view.
'The Shepherd' is a most unorthodox kind of Pantheist; yet even he does not scruple to swell the senseless cry against 'Godless infidels, whom he calls an almost infinite variety of bad names, and among other shocking crimes accuses them of propounding a 'dead philosophy. Yet the difference between his Pantheism and our Atheism is only perceptible to the microscopic eye of super-sublimated spiritualism.
The reader who begins to examine for himself, for the first time, in the original books of it, this great system of the Modern Science, impressed with the received notions in regard to its scope and intentions, will be, perhaps, not a little surprised and puzzled, to find that the thing which is, of all others, most strenuously insisted on by this author, in his own person, next to the worthlessness of the conceits which have no correspondence with things, is the fact that the knowledge of the physical causes is altogether inadequate to that relief of the condition of man, which he finds to be the immediate end of science; and that it is a system of metaphysics, a new metaphysics, which he is everywhere propounding to that end, openly, and with all the latent force of his new rhetoric.
Just at the moment that the Wondersmith uttered this sentence, the four gypsies were startled by a hoarse voice issuing from a corner of the room, and propounding in the most guttural tones the intemperate query of "What'll you take?"
"Ah! but how could you have found them again?" inquired Mr. Chalk, with the air of one propounding a poser. "With my map," said the captain, slowly. "Before I left I made a map of the island and got its position from the schooner that picked me up; but I never heard a word from that day to this." "Could you find them now?" said Mr. Chalk. "Why not?" said the captain, with a short laugh.
He was so far neither more nor less 'theoretical' than his predecessors, but simply more impressed by the necessity of having at least a consistent theory. There was never a time at which logic in such matters was more wanted, or its importance more completely disregarded. Rash and ignorant theorists were plunging into intricate problems and propounding abstract solutions.
He throws so much life into all his writings. Whether they are about making the most of food or fuel, or propounding the benefits of bathing, or inveighing against smoke, it is that he went and saw and did and experimented himself upon himself. His proceedings at Munich to feed the poor are more interesting than many a novel.
"Bless my soul! Washed away!" gasped Mr. Damon. "And, in the course of a comparatively short time, it will sink," went on the scientist, as cheerfully as though he was a professor propounding some problem to his class. "Sink!" ejaculated Mrs. Nestor. "The whole island undermined! Oh, what an alarming theory!" "I wish I could hold to a different one, madam," was Mr. Parker's answer, "but I cannot.
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