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The new Lady Rylton plants a very shapely little foot against an excrescence in the wall, and in a second has her knee on the window-sill. "After all, my mother was right," says Rylton, laughing. "You are a hoyden." He takes the slight girlish figure in his arms, and swings her into the room. She stands for a second looking at him with a rather thoughtful air. Then
Cecropia that beauty whose wings, fully six inches across, will flap gracefully through the summer twilight weaves about himself a half oval mound, along some stem or tree-trunk, and becomes a mere excrescence the veriest unedible thing a bird may spy.
But in truth we regard the whole discussion on organization as a huge and unnecessary excrescence on his argument, for he would have come to his point quite as effectually, and much more directly, had he said nothing at all about an organized being, and insisted merely on one, whether material or spiritual, possessing powers of intelligence, contrivance, and design; for it is evidently on the existence of such a being, and not on the arrangements or adaptations of his organic parts, that his main argument depends, namely, that such a being implies also a contriver, and that again another, and so on in an endless series.
As no scientific examination has been made of this part of the mound, the above supposition can only be regarded as a conjecture. Possibly the excrescence does not so much mark a vestibule as a second shrine, like that which is said to have existed at the foot of the Belus Tower at Babylon.
Now with a fine-pointed flame the glass covering the end of the small tube is heated to the softening temperature, and then is blown out to an excrescence by blowing on the end of the small tube which passes through the cork.
But if the person deformed hath an excrescence on his breast instead of on the back, he is for the most part of a double heart, and very mischievous. Of the divers Manners of going, and particular Posture both of Men and Women.
The ore that he mined now was a mere excrescence of the great ore-body he hoped to find, but each day the blanket-vein turned and dipped on itself until at last it folded over and led down. In a huge mass of rocks, stuck together by crystals of silica and stained by the action of acids, the silver and copper came together and intermingled at the fissure vent which had produced them both.
Gravity would be taught ambiguously of the two bodies. Proof of these impossibilities by a diagram. Cannot be true, for a. The Water of the excrescence would be diffused, and consequently the excrescence could not exist: b. It is unnecessary, and what is unnecessary is contrary to the will of God and Nature. B. All land is higher than the sea.
Two notes only I have made: one though who hasn't made it over and over again? on the exquisite elegance of mountain forms in this endless play of the excrescence, it being exactly as if there were variation of sex in the upheaved mass, with the effect here mainly of contour and curve and complexion determined in the feminine sense.
'An English criminal trial is a public inquiry, having for its object the discover of truth, but thrown for the purposes of obtaining that end into the form of a litigation between the prosecutor and the prisoner. On the other hand, in the French system, the jury is really an 'excrescence' introduced by an afterthought.
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