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At the same time, M. Huysman apart who occupies much the same quasi-religious position as that which attached a fleeting interest to the personality of Mr W. H. Mallock all writers and all witnesses are, or assume to be, at the present time, convinced and zealous Roman Catholics.
Once it is seen without the quasi-religious, or rather mock-religious, character of the Bayreuth performances, the hollowness, trumpery staginess and evil tendency of the work will be only too obvious, and if Bayreuth wants a monopoly of it no one will wish to say Bayreuth nay.
They have illuminated all the close of the Terror; they are beginning to make us understand that most difficult piece of political psychology, the reaction of Thermidor, and with it how Europeans lose their balance and regain it in the course of their quasi-religious wars; for all our wars have something in them of religion. Three elements appear to enter into the judgment of history.
Wholly repugnant to the general freedom are such devices as enthralling men's minds with prejudices, forcing their judgment, or employing any of the weapons of quasi-religious sedition; indeed, such seditions only spring up, when law enters the domain of speculative thought, and opinions are put on trial and condemned on the same footing as crimes, while those who defend and follow them are sacrificed, not to public safety, but to their opponents' hatred and cruelty.
Huxley; development of the gyri and sulci. Brakenridge, Dr., on the influence of climate. Brandt, A., on hairy men. Braubach, Prof., on the quasi-religious feeling of a dog towards his master; on the self-restraint of dogs. Brauer, F., on dimorphism in Neurothemis. Brazil, skulls found in caves of; population of; compression of the nose by the natives of. Break between man and the apes.
In these Nature-worships there may be discerned three fairly independent streams of religious or quasi-religious enthusiasm: that connected with the phenomena of the heavens, the movements of the Sun, planets and stars, and the awe and wonderment they excited; that connected with the seasons and the very important matter of the growth of vegetation and food on the Earth; and that connected with the mysteries of Sex and reproduction.
At each half year there is issued a printed statement which is addressed to the shareholders of the United Churches Limited and is hardly to be distinguished in style or material from the annual and semi-annual reports of the Tin Pot Amalgamation and the United Hardware and other quasi-religious bodies of the sort.
+581+. So far we have been considering the growth of the simpler religious ideas and the parallel development of a quasi-religious social organization. The ethical development is no less important than the religious and the political, with which it has always been closely connected. Ethical ideas and customs are in their origin independent of religion.
Apuleius was one of those minds not uncommon in a decaying civilization, in which extreme quasi-religious exaltation alternates with impure hilarity. He is a licentious mystic; a would-be magician; a hierophant of pretentious sanctity, something between a Cagliostro and a Swedenborg; a type altogether new in Roman literature, and a gloomy index of its speedy fall.
On either side of her stood a faithful attendant, one being a confidential maid, the other a Miss Drake an old, mittened companion, hardly younger in appearance than herself both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence, and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtsies.
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