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… he called he was assailed in the most intemperate language and the delivery refused. The second idea was to get my tailor to obtain judgment against me for the few hundreds I owed him, to be executed by seizing the stock. But the sheriff received the same treatment as everyone else. Warner started at once to heap insults upon, and hurl defiance at, the representatives of the law. What interests me most in all this is the problem of how such a man ever does any business. In my own case, part of my original plan involved the placing of large ord…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…. In this way I managed to insinuate my message perhaps more effectively than could possibly have been done by any amount of visible argument and persuasion. The Scrutinies of Simon Iff are perfectly good detective stories, yet they not only show a master of the Law as competent to solve the subtlest problems by considerations based upon the Law, but the way in which crime and unhappiness of all sorts may be traced to a breach of the Law. I show that failure to comply with it involves an internal conflict. (Note that the fundamental principle o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
43 Wales. I told him yes, and mentioned one particular place, the Devil's Kitchen or Twll Dy, which I had climbed by taking off my boots. I had no idea that the place was famous, but it was. It was reputed unclimbable. Almighty Jones himself had failed. I found myself, to my astonishment, the storm centre. Jones, behind my back, accused me flatly of lying. Quite unconsciously, however, I put myself in the right. I have always failed to see that it is necessary to make a fuss about one's climbs. There is a good reason for describing a first clim…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…Kraft-Ebing. ‘Ihe names of the parties have been changed. that whirling tumult of pleasure, scheming, success, and despair, the minds of men hada trying ordeal to pass through. In Zola’s ‘‘ La Curée”” we see how such ordinary and natural characters as those of Saccard, Maxime, and the incestuous heroine, were twisted and dis- torted from their normal sanity, and sent whirl- ing into the jaws of a hell far more affrayant than the mere cheap and nasty brimstone Sheol which is a Shibboleth for the dissenter, and with which all classes of religious…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…imply that it does not convince him—which is true. - A casual carpenter wandered about a string of villages and suddenly a horde of rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a common hypothesis, for it is hated. Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism, for I have not room for it in this colu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…d-so is, did and suffered: these are merely clues to that great problem. So then the earliest memories of any autohagiographer will be immensely valuable; their very incoherence will be an infallible guide. For, as Freud has shown, we remember (in the main) what we wish to remember, and forget what is painful. There is thus great danger of deception as to the "facts" of the case; but our memories indicate with uncanny accuracy what is our true will. And, as above made manifest, it is this true will which shows the nature of our proper motion. I…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…raft-Ebing. T he names of the parties have been changed. that w hirling tumult of pleasure, scheming, success, and despair, the minds of men had a trying ordeal to pass through. In Zola’s “La Curée” we see how such ordinary and natural characters as those of Saccard, Maxime, and the incestuous heroine, were twisted and dis- torted from their normal sanity, and sent whirl- ing into the j aws of a hell far more affrayant than the mere cheap and nasty brimstone Sheol which is a Shibboleth for the dissenter, and with which all classes of religious …
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…the Sporting Times, such letters being usually written by public scribes for a few pice in the native bazaar. As to “Babus” (Babu, I may mention, is the equivalent to our “Mister,” and not the name of a savage tribe), Mr. Chesterton, from his Brixton Brahmaloka, may look forth and see that the “Babu” cannot understand Western ideas; but a distinguished civil servant in the Madras Presidency, second wrangler in a very good year, assured me that he had met a native whose mathematical knowledge was superior to that of the average senior wrangler, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…f the virtue of compassion (for Shakespeare was, as I shall hope to prove one day, a Buddhist) that Corn- wall, the somewhat cruel instrument of eternal Justice, is killed by his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would note that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author's design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. deve…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
… the virtue of compassion (for Shakespeare was, as I shall hope to prove one day, a Buddhist) that Corn- wall, the somew hat cruel instrument of eternal Justice, is killed by his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would not that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author’s design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. devel…
1906 · PDF PAGE 194
… herit, would hunt down to death, a beloved son, on such evidence? Or are we to take it that the eclipse gave proof unshakable of a phenomenon so portentous? In Scene ii. we have another taste of Kent’s gentlemanly demeanour; let our conven- tionalist interpreters defend this unwarrantable bullying if they dare! Another might be so gross, so cowardly; but not our greatest poet ! A good portion of this play, as will be shown later, is devoted to a bitter assault upon the essentially English notion that the pugilist is the supreme device of the C…
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…en a bribe to the unwary, a bait for the charlatan, a hindrance to the philosopher; let us discard it. * Hume, and Kant in the ‘‘ Prolegomena,” discuss this phenomenon unsatisfactorily.— A. C. + It is this rapture which has ever been the bond between mystics of all shades; and the obstacle to any accurate observation of the phenomenon, its true causes, and soon. This mustalways bea stumbling- block to more impressionable minds ; but there is no doubt as to the fact—it zs a fact—and its present isolation is to be utterly deplored. May I entreat …
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
… herit, would hunt down to death, a beloved son, on such evidence? Or are we to take it that the eclipse gave proof unshakable of a phenomenon so portentous ? In Scene ii. we have another taste of Kent’s gentlemanly demeanour ; let our conven- tionalist interpreters defend this unw arrantable bullying if they dare ! Another might be so gross, so cowardly ; but not our greatest poet ! A good portion of this play, as will be shown later, is devoted to a bitter assault upon the essentially English notion that the pugilist is the supreme device of …
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…en a bribe to the unwary, a bait for the charlatan, a hindrance to the philosopher; let us discard it.† * Hume, and Kant in the “Pr olegomena,” discuss this phenomenon unsatisfactorily.—A. C. † It is this rapture which has ever been the bond between mystics of all shades; and the obstacle to any accurate observation of the phenomenon, its true causes, and so on. This must always be a stumbling- block to more impressionable minds; but there is no doubt as to the fact—it is a f act—and its present isolation is to be utter ly deplored. M ay I entr…