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An Island in the Over-Sea which doubtless washed the Eastern end of the earth, wherever that might be. And the writer! How did he get there? And what impelled him to go? A chill shot the thinker's nerves.
Speculative thought was profitable only so long as it was a mere elucidation of the dogmas of the church. As soon as those dogmas were even remotely questioned, the thinker's soul was in peril. In repressing heretical suggestions by the sternest measures, the church was discharging a plain duty. Earthly pleasure was dangerous, but in suffering lay medicinal virtue.
When those wonderful Greeks wished to express the thinker's art, they spoke of Sophia or wisdom; when they heard the first preacher who told them of their innermost selves, they called him the Prophêtês or prophet, the man that speaketh forth as from an illimitable deep; and when they listened to the soul of music coming from the lips of a Homer or a Sappho, they called it by the most expressive name of all, "making" or "creation". The poet was a creator.
It was only towards the close of the period which is commonly known as the age of "Illumination" that Progress came to the front, and it is interesting to observe the reason. Wolf was the leading successor and interpreter of Leibnitz. He constrained that thinker's ideas into a compact logical system which swayed Germany till Kant swept it away.
Not total deficiency; for every production of mind which is of any substantive value, has an originality of its own is a conception of the mind itself, not a copy of something else. Thoughts original, in the sense of being unborrowed of being derived from the thinker's own observations or intellectual processes are abundant in the writings of women.
Cooke says truly of this oration, that nearly all his leading ideas found expression in it. This was to be expected in an address delivered before such an audience. Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off.
No, no in spite of the delicacy of her attachment, my benefactress must unconsciously hurt my feelings, even whilst she pities me for only sympathetic sorrows can console each other. Alas! why did she not leave me to die?" These reflections presented themselves to the thinker's mind as rapidly as thought could travel.
No, no in spite of the delicacy of her attachment, my benefactress must unconsciously hurt my feelings, even whilst she pities me for only sympathetic sorrows can console each other. Alas! why did she not leave me to die?" These reflections presented themselves to the thinker's mind as rapidly as thought could travel.
As a strictly scientific accomplishment the great thinker's conception of primordial elements contained a germ of the truth which was to lie dormant for 2200 years, but which then, as modified and vitalized by the genius of Dalton, was to dominate the new chemical science of the nineteenth century.
"All I want," D'ri was saying, "is a piece of iron, with a sharp end, half es long es yer arm." He made no answer, that big, sullen, bull-dog man who brought our food to us. When he had gone, D'ri lay over and began laughing under his breath. "His thinker's goin' luk a sawmill," he whispered. "Would n't wonder ef it kep' 'im awake nights. He was askin' 'bout thet air tew thousan' dollars.
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