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There was still twenty minutes, and he decided to use the time in offering solace to the army of women who, by force of mere statistics, are fated to the frustration of their raison d'etre. On this subject he had nothing very remarkable to say, and, indeed, the maiden ladies who heard him must have felt that it all amounted to a pitying shrug of the shoulders.
If its sovereignty were not universal, extending alike over bodies and over souls, Catholicism would lose its /raison d'etre/; for the Church cannot recognise any empire or kingdom otherwise than politically the emperors and the kings being purely and simply so many temporary delegates placed in charge of the nations pending the time when they shall be called upon to relinquish their trust.
The only raison d'etre of the music in the minds of the fashionable audience was then as now to provide a stimulus for conversation and flirting, or a pleasant diversion in the intervals of their business transactions. But it is easy to ridicule the follies and failures of men who were striving after an ideal.
"And what talk have you out of you about waterasks? You're the great man, bedad." "Me aunt's lookin' in on Mrs. Kilfoyle, ma'am," said Ody, "be raison of Brian bein' off to the Town. And right enough you and me knows what's took him there; and so does Norah Finegan. Och, good luck to the pair of thim." "Coortin'," said his aunt, who preferred to put things briefly and clearly.
In some places it's almost impossible f'r a man to get rid iv his fam'ly onless he has a good raison. There's no regularity at all about it. In Kentucky baldness is grounds f'r divoorce; in Ohio th' inclemency iv th' weather.
Eliminate Caligula, and Nero, Domitian, Commodus, Caracalla and Heliogabalus would never have been. It was he who gave them both raison d'etre and incentive. The lives of all of them are horrible, yet analyze the horrible and you find the sublime. Fancy a peak piercing the heavens, shadowing the earth.
"And what's more remarkable," added Martin, "is that they all carry quivers full of arrows, but none of them have bows." "There's a raison for iverything," said Barney, pointing to one of the Indians in advance; "that fellow explains the mystery."
The American Irish-American of long American descent, who, though not inheriting a drop of Irish blood, is yet a vigorous if not obstreperous ally of the Irish party in America. This last is the most striking of the three, as on the face of it, he would not appear to have any logical raison d'être as a political entity, but in reality exerts a powerful influence in favour of "the Cause."
"If you had had one the element in question would soon have become practically all you'd see. To me it's exactly as palpable as the marble of this chimney. Besides, the critic just ISN'T a plain man: if he were, pray, what would he be doing in his neighbour's garden? You're anything but a plain man yourself, and the very raison d'etre of you all is that you're little demons of subtlety.
God pardon me! how-and-ever, but upon my conscience, it isn't the religion that keeps a man poor, but the religion that puts the flesh on his bones, and keeps it there, that is the right one aye, and not only that, but that keeps a good coat on his back, your honor, and a good pair of breeches to his posterals for which raison, whenever I do sariously turn it'll be but you may guess it'll be to the only true and loyal church; for when a man can get both fat, and loyal, and religious, all at one move, he's a confounded fool that won't become religious."
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