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The pure conception of God, of Elohim, as of the spirit informing and supporting the universe, collided with the blurred system of heathen deities and crass idolatry. The simple cult of the shepherds, consisting of a few severely plain ceremonies, transmitted from generation to generation, was confronted with the insidious, coarsely sensual animal worship of the Egyptians.
'He'll find he's a day too late, said Misery, with a ghastly grin. 'We'll get the job done on Wednesday. 'She didn't want to give it to me, at first, Crass concluded, 'but I told 'er we'd see 'er right if old Snatchum tried to make 'er pay for the other coffin. 'I don't think he's likely to make much fuss about it, said Hunter. 'He won't want everybody to know he was so anxious for the job.
Philpot stammered out something about having thought there was one at the house already, and the others said they had not thought about it at all. 'Well, what the bloody hell are we to do now? cried Crass, angrily. 'I'll go to the yard and get one, suggested Barrington. 'I can do it in twenty minutes there and back. 'Yes! and a bloody fine row there'd be if Hunter was to see you!
Any man who failed to satisfy him in this respect he reported to Hunter as being 'no good', or 'too slow for a funeral'. The result was that this man was dispensed with at the end of the week. The men knew this, and most of them feared the wily Crass accordingly, though there were a few whose known abilities placed them to a certain extent above the reach of his malice.
Oh, how coarse and crass and stupid it sounded how course and crass and stupid to say it to this small defiant scrap of what seemed the inevitable suffering of the world! The clear blue of the eyes Robin had dwelt in, lifted itself to her. There was something almost fierce in it almost like impotent hatred of something.
The people who own all these things now never really paid for them with money they obtained possession of them by means of the "Money Trick" which Owen explained to us some time ago. 'They obtained possession of them by usin' their brain, said Crass. 'Exactly, replied the lecturer.
The finale of this tale was received with a burst of incredulous laughter by those who heard it. 'Do you 'ear what Harlow says, Bob? Easton shouted to Crass. 'No. What was it? ''E ses 'e once 'ad a chance to 'ave something but 'e wouldn't take it on because it was too ugly! 'If it 'ad bin me, I should 'ave shut me bl y eyes, cried Sawkins. 'I wouldn't pass it for a trifle like that.
Ah, my friend," and he came abruptly nearer "the pathos, the comedy, the pert self-sufficiency of their dull pride, the crass stupidity and littleness of their denials, in the eyes of those like ourselves who have actually known the passion of the larger experience ! For all this modern talk about a Subliminal Self is woven round a profoundly significant truth, a truth newly discovered and only just beginning to be understood.
'That means that you would have to pay sevenpence per year if we had a halfpenny rate. Wouldn't it be worth sevenpence a year to you to know that there were no starving children in the town? 'Why should I 'ave to 'elp to keep the children of a man who's too lazy to work, or spends all 'is money on drink? shouted Crass. ''Ow are yer goin' to make out about the likes o' them?
But I did not come to Scotland to vindicate the honour of one of the neatest men she has ever produced. My business is to point out to you that the only way of escape out of the "crass materialism" in which we just now landed, is the adoption and strict working out of the very principles which the Archbishop holds up to reprobation.
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