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He would rather cease to be, than walk the dull level of the commonplace than live the unideal of men in whose company he can take no pleasure men who are as of a lower race, whom he fain would lift, who will not rise, but for whom as for himself he would cherish the hope they do their best to kill.
+Christianity and Collectivism.+ In what I am now saying I am well aware that I have come to a phase of my subject which thousands of my countrymen are stating so clearly and forcibly as to compel attention; but what I want to show is that the present unideal condition of the civilised world is an indictment of the churches and their conventional doctrines. We seem to have forgotten our origin.
Terry was Marie's point of contact with form, in its deep relation to life. Marie felt this and loved him and was grateful, to the depths of her nature, so different from his, so animal, so unideal, in comparison! She wrote: "Terry gave me a new way to express myself, and that, after all, is the only thing worth living for.
The spirit of Cosimo de' Medici, almost cynical in its positivism, the spirit of Sixtus IV., almost godless in its egotism, were abroad in Italy at this period; indeed, the fifteenth century presents at large a spectacle of prosaic worldliness and unideal aims.
Amanda and Rebecca were now girls of seventeen and eighteen years buxom, rosy, absolutely unideal country lasses. Beside them, frail little Tillie seemed a creature of another clay.
If the evangelical creed he inculcated was rude, crude, and unideal, it was serious, sincere, and stimulating. He waged war against the Devil, as that mysterious personage was understood by him, with the most whole-hearted and relentless zeal.
Next, two pails of the best cold water at your earliest convenience. Hurry, now, there's a Hebe!" "Very good, sir," giggles Hebe, retreating down passage. It is to be supposed that it was the plebeian body-servant that carried on this unideal conversation, and that the patrician soul had nothing to do with it.
The purely earthly unideal life is represented as a life of men tied neck and heels from birth in a cave, having their backs to the light, and their eyes fixed only on the shadows which are cast upon the wall. These they take for the only realities, and they may acquire much skill in interpreting the shadows. Turn these men suddenly to the true light, and they will be dazzled and blinded.
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