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Yet before I proceed to my legitimate subject some few final remarks will no doubt be expected by my Readers upon these pillars and mainstays of the Constitution of Flatland, the controllers of our conduct and shapers of our destiny, the objects of universal homage and almost of adoration: need I say that I mean our Circles or Priests?
"I regret the necessity of binding you, Highness, but it is for your protection; as I told you, this spell can be extremely painful to one with your automatic magical defenses, possibly causing convulsions and self-injury." "I appreciate the consideration, especially toward one you must regard as little if any better than the Shapers."
Their words may have sounded monistic when they said "there is no God but God"; but the original polytheism of mankind has only imperfectly and vaguely sublimated itself into monotheism, and monotheism itself, so far as it was religious and not a scheme of class-room instruction for the metaphysicians, has always viewed God as but one helper, primus inter pares, in the midst of all the shapers of the great world's fate.
That would explain much about them but how could anyone be so stupid?" Medart shrugged. "We don't know. When our Sandemans overthrew their Shapers, almost all the Shaper records were destroyed. My personal opinion is that it was sheer arrogance." "Which they passed along to their creations," Chavvorth said. Medart chuckled.
You can feel that he is Canadian through and through." "A farmer's son, I think, from Manitoba?" "Yes." Elizabeth's tone was a little defensive. "Will you not sometimes if you watch his career regret that, with his ability, he has not the environment and the audience of the Old World?" "No, never! He will be one of the shapers of the new." Delaine looked at her with a certain passion.
Workers and smiths were everywhere. They crawled over the scaffolding like ants. They hammered and pounded at the framework. They were bent over the furnaces and the anvils. The presses and the shapers were pounding away. Never before had Jack Odin seen so much activity in Opal. "We are wrecking our buildings for this ship," Wolden mourned.
"Here, Teddy," said one of the countrymen, "will you fill the bottle again." "No," replied Teddy, who though as cunning as the devil himself, could seldom be got to speak anything better than broken English, and that of such a character that it was often scarcely intelligible. "No," he replied; "I gav'd you wan bottle 'idout payment fwhor her, an' by shapers I won't give none oder."
Accordingly we shall find, throughout the 18th century, a stirring of thought, an originality, a resistance to circumstances, an indignant defiance of circumstances, which would have been impossible, had circumstances been the true lords and shapers of mankind. Had that latter been the case, the downward progress of the Ancien Regime would have been irremediable.
Have you been there?" "To Alpha Prime's, yes but that's a different world, in a different part of the galaxy. I'm looking forward to seeing yours." "It is a beautiful one, particularly near the Vader clanhome," Kelly said. "As the first clan formed after Overthrow, we took the Shapers' area and they, of course, had chosen one of the best and most attractive parts of the planet."
To deny that Whitman belongs to the fraternity of great artists, the shapers and moulders of the ideal, those who breathe the breath of life into the clay or stone of common facts and objects, who make all things plastic and the vehicles of great and human emotions, is to read him very inadequately, to say the least.
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