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On one side a bull-man, a rather weak-chinned minotaur, stands for the strength of Western civilization; on the other, a cat-woman represents the civilization of the Eastern hemisphere.
Her companions had been men not women, or nurses, or pious, pedantic priests. Through the veins of her young body pulsed and leaped life plus. She abhorred the thought of an alliance with her weak-chinned brother; and the ministers of state who suggested another husband, as a compromise, were dismissed with a look.
"You heard the orders," the hugest one barked: "no congregating of Earth slaves on the conveyors or elsewhere. Next time you disobey, I'll ray you. You understand?" "Yes, Magnificent," the weak-chinned man muttered hurriedly. But the little knot reformed immediately after the guards had passed on. "Magnificents!" The first speaker spat viciously. "I'd like to wring their necks."
These damned Mercutians are not invulnerable. They can be overcome, chased off the Earth. But we've got to be men, not slaves." High excitement shone in the surrounding faces. "But we ain't got no weapons," a small, weak-chinned man protested. The other spat carefully: "No weapons, huh? Man, I could show you " A dark, silent man standing uninterestedly next to him jabbed him in the ribs.
Stupid men are monstrously cruel. The guards and the men over me, from the Warden down, were stupid monsters. Listen, and you shall learn what they did to me. There was a poet in the prison, a convict, a weak-chinned, broad-browed, degenerate poet. He was a forger. He was a coward. He was a snitcher.
He was a weak-eyed, weak-chinned, indecisive man. "'Tis a damned murder!" O'Brien cried out. "I'll have none of ut," Mahoney announced. "Not a bite shall pass me lips." "Then 'tis yer share for better men than yerself," Sullivan sneered. "Go on with yer duty, cook." "'Tis not me duty, the killin' of b'ys," Gorman protested irresolutely.
Everett.........................$60 So Tom Everett, Macy's weak-chinned nephew, had started at sixty and in three weeks he had been out of the packing-room and into the office. So that was it!
The over-rouged young lady followed her with a brief, bitter glance then turned again to the weak-chinned waiter and took up her argument. "You better go up and tell him I'm here," she said defiantly, "or I'll go up myself." "No, you don't!" said George sternly. The girl smiled sardonically.
And so it continued until he was forty years old, when he went home to find Minnie a widow with a grown-up son a fat, weak-chinned, pale-faced parody on manhood, who never had done a day's work in his life a "mamma's boy," who was destined for the ministry. The dark, seamy-faced man of storm and strength, of stress and strain, asked her again to be his wife.
The only activity exerted by the church in the direction indicated partakes too strongly of the eleemosynary nature to make it acceptable to any save the most degraded the weak-chinned, flabby-natured horde of men and women who rally instinctively to the drum-taps of the street-corner Salvationist, or seek warmth and cheer on cold winter nights, and if possible more substantial benefits, from the missions and "church houses."
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