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"Self-control? I tell you, it's super-human! I've thought sometimes it was a divine power sustaining him. Why, I saw that man at his mother's deathbed. She lay in his arms, and he sang to her hymns, you know sang to her in a clear, unbroken voice until her spirit had passed out of hearing. I couldn't have done it, even for a stranger." "I am sure you could not," said Miss Swendon.
Not that uninspired intellect overruled the super-human gift which was committed to the Council, which would be a self-contradictory assertion, but that in that process of inquiry and deliberation, which ended in an infallible enunciation, individual reason was paramount.
Her frivolous friends looked upon that as a great act of heroism, as something almost super-human, and so courageous, that they tried to distract her by their incessant letters, religiously kept her up in all the scandal, and love adventures, in the falls, as well as in the apotheosis of the capital.
Who, and what am I? Carry your mind back to our conversation on the Walls of this interesting City, and let us start once more from your point of view. Now observe! There are many varieties of Rogue; let me tell you my variety, to begin with. I am a Swindler." His entire shamelessness was really super-human.
Indeed, it looked very like a shut-out from chapel too, and that meant no end of a row. By a super-human effort he got his boat clear, and sculled down hard all, reaching the boat-house at seven minutes to eight.
She walked with a new air, looked about her with confidence and a sense of ownership. Above all, she had reached that almost super-human state she knew herself to be indispensable. xiii When Gaga seemed to be well enough, they went out for a time each day, and Sally tried to interest him in plans for a change of home.
Assailed by the foe with all his might, my body mangled with their arrows, I sought safety in flight. This however, O Bharata, seemed to me to be a great marvel that I behold you all come safe and sound in body, with your wives, troops, and vehicles, out of that super-human encounter.
He represents his own life-work as a sort of religious quest; he feels convinced that in devoting himself to philosophical discussion he has done the bidding of a super-human guide; and he goes to death rather than be untrue to this personal conviction. If you propose to acquit me, he says, on condition that I abandon my search for truth, I will say: I thank you, O Athenians, but I will obey God, who, as I believe, set me this task, rather than you, and so long as I have breath and strength I will never
If God is a personal agent affected by the desires of his worshipers, this act is perfectly logical. Yet the nature of sickness is now so well known that we see in it a cause and effect relation of a definite sort. Knowledge of impersonal agency is undermining the faith in super-human agency.
Parson skulks off to rouse Game, knowing perfectly well that Bloomfield will be sound asleep again before he is out of the door, which turns out to be the case. After super-human efforts to extract from Game an assurance that he's getting up that moment, and Parson needn't wait, the luckless fag returns to find his master snoring like one of the seven sleepers. The same process has to be repeated.
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