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Updated: August 16, 2024
It is, nevertheless, difficult to believe that these enthusiasts confined themselves to the superficialities of Chinese learning. The illustrations of altruism which they furnished by abdicating in one another's favour may well have been inspired by perusing the writings of Confucius.
The same detail had held her gaze, the same thought almost the same simile had come into her mind; but she had hardly expected to find a love of the beautiful in this bronzed forester. In fact, she found that a number of her preconceived ideas were being turned topsy-turvy. Heretofore, it seemed to her, her thought had always dwelt on the superficialities rather than the realities of life.
If Alexander wasn't suspicious of him now the man was a fool. He'd done as well as he could with confusion and outrage, but it was hardly possible to hide behind superficialities. Even the most disciplined mind couldn't do that without some preparation. Undoubtedly his concern about Copper had leaked through. He could only hope that other and more important things had not.
One night they heard the wolf pack chanting as they ran along the ridge. Life was real up here. The superficialities with which she had dealt before were revealed in their true light. Of all the past material requisites, only three remained, food and warmth and shelter. Others that she did not think she needed protection, and strength and discipline were shown as vitally necessary.
If this principle on the part of mothers in America in providing for their children were confined to such superficialities as their clothing, no appreciable harm or good would come of it. But such is not the case; it extends to the uttermost parts of the child's home life. Only the other day I happened to call upon a friend of mine during the hour set aside for her little girl's piano lesson.
But such reaction was effective only because an age had come the age of a negative, or agnostic philosophy in which men's minds must needs be limited to the superficialities of things, with a kind of narrowness amounting to a positive gift.
Each of us has had her little fling at maternity about as much as a washerwoman does in her odd time every two or three years and that is our uttermost reality. All the rest, trimmings! "Something has to be done for women, Stephen. We are the heart of life, birth and begetting, the home where the future grows, and your schemes ignore us and slide about over the superficialities of things.
And in addition to these physical manifestations there were subtle intimations of a delight in a freedom of body she had never before known, of an exhilaration in action that made her hot and made her breathe, of a sloughing off of numberless petty and fussy and luxurious little superficialities which she had supposed were necessary to her happiness.
Anyone who has seen much of undergraduates, or medical students, or Army candidates, and also of their social subordinates, must be disposed to agree that the difference between the two classes is mainly in unimportant things in polish, in manner, in superficialities of accent and vocabulary and social habit and that their minds, in range and power, are very much on a level.
Measured by all the standards by which men are measured, stripping off the superficialities of surface culture and clothes, the thin veneer of education which in his case, as in the cases of the great majority of young men who have been graduated from this or that university, had imparted only a sort of finish, a neat, gleaming polish, and no great metamorphosis of the inner and true being, was he a better man?
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