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Page 74 of 791929 · PDF PAGE 19
…cruel fanatic, no meaner villain, ever walked this earth. My father, wrong-headed as he was, had humanity and a certain degree of common-sense; he had a logical mind and never confused spiritual with material issues. He could never have believed, like my uncle, that the cut and colour of "Sunday clothes" could be a matter of importance to the Deity. Having decided that faith and not works was essential to salvation, he could not attach any vital importance to works. With him, the reason for refraining from sin was simply that it showed ingratit…
1909 · PDF PAGE 410
…o 3, 7, 10, 12, as the case may be. Since our expression ‘common denominator’ is used in a figurative and not in a strictly mathematical sense, the task is less complex than appears at first sight, and the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation of the Qabalah, provide a convenient scale, These 2 Paths are attributed by the Qabalists to the 10 Sephiroth, or Emanations of Deity, and to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and x2 simple letters. On this basis, tha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 410
…o 3, 7, 10, 12, as the case may be. Since our expression ‘common denominator’ is used in a figurative and not in a strictly mathematical sense, the task is less complex than appears at first sight, and the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation of the Qabalah, provide a convenient scale, These 2 Paths are attributed by the Qabalists to the 10 Sephiroth, or Emanations of Deity, and to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and x2 simple letters. On this basis, tha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
… Greek and Latin poetry. Stranger still, I could not master the rules of prosody. My most hostile critics admit that my technique and my sense of rhythm are unsurpassed; but the rules of scansion meant nothing to me, because no one explained their connection with the way a poem should be read. I should have liked school life well enough if it had not been for the bullying and the complete lack of intellectual companionship. I had no interest in games; my athletic ambitions were confined to climbing mountains. But at least there was no Christian…
1904 · PDF PAGE 7
…n is, of course, absurd, y et a straw will show which way the wind blows as well as the m ost beautiful and elaborate vane : and in this sense it is m y most eager hope that I may not unjustly draw a com- parison between my self and the great re- formers of eighty years ago. * So it is usually supposed. Maybe I shall one day find wor ds to com bat, perhaps to over throw, this position. P.S. As, f or exam ple, the Note to this I ntroduction. As a pr omise-keeper I am the original eleven stone three Peacherine.—A.C. I must apologise (perhaps) for…
1906 · PDF PAGE 66
… to annoy the reader by leaving any blanks, feeling that my own poverty of diction will be less noticeable than any actual hiatus in the sense or rhythm. I attempt neither eulogy nor criti- cism here. Indeed, it seems to me entirely uncalled for. His words were: ‘‘ Let the world know how wonderful it was,” that is, his love and hers; not ‘‘ how wonderful it is,’ that is, his poem. The poem is simple, understandable, direct, not verbose. More I demand not, 1 The MS. has been lost.—Eb. © 2 The essential facts are, of course, imaginary.
1929 · PDF PAGE 471
…dly noticeable. Was it that they did not understand the importance of America in the Wilhelmstrasse? Was {745} it that they had the good sense to rely upon the stupidity of the English apologists to defeat their intentions? I had a considerable opinion of the intelligence of Germans, dating from the time in my boyhood when Helmholtz was the great name in physics, Haeckel in biology, Mommsen in history, Goethe in poetry, Bach, Beethoven and Wagner in music; the time when one might say that the whole of organic chemistry had been developed in Ger…
1904 · PDF PAGE 120
… logical faculty thwarted—thousands of workers lost each year to Science? And the way to do this is not only through the negative common-sense of indifference ; organise, organise, organise! For a flag we offer you the stainless lotus-banner of the Buddha, in defence of which no drop of blood has ever been, nor ever will be shed, a banner under which y ou will join forces with five hundred m illions of your fellow- men. And y ou will not be privates in the army ; for you the highest place, the place of leaders, waits; as far as the trium phs of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 515
…sible condition to observe. My perfectly impersonal interest, and of course my scientific training, stood me in excellent stead. My time sense was markedly altered, much as I have described in the account of the attack on me in Calcutta. I was thus able to observe the events of what was probably not more than five seconds as if it had been as many minutes. I thought the phenomenon of sufficient interest to record; and wrote a brief description to the New York Times. The result was surprising. I found myself inundated with letters of inquiry fro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 461
…y grasp it --- would stand to radium as radium to steam, or more so. He is therefore perfectly right in refusing to discredit, on common sense grounds,the report that a cannon has been constructed to carry a shell across the Atlantic, or a flying machine to go to the moon; an instrument capable of detecting any conceivable fact about a man from a drop of his blood; of penetrating the past or foretelling the future. There is, in fact, no theoretical limit to human attainment, for the simple reason that nature is known to contain all conceivable …
1911 · PDF PAGE 312
…o 3, 7, 10, 12, as the case may be. Since our expression ‘common denominator’ is used in a figurative and not in a strietly mathematical sense, the task is less complex than appears at first sight, and the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation of the Qabalah, provide a convenient scale. These 32 Paths are attributed by the Qabalists to the 10 Sephiroth, or Emanations of Deity, and to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. On this basis, th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 312
…o 3, 7, 10, 12, as the case may be. Since our expression ‘common denominator’ is used in a figurative and not in a strietly mathematical sense, the task is less complex than appears at first sight, and the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation of the Qabalah, provide a convenient scale. These 32 Paths are attributed by the Qabalists to the 10 Sephiroth, or Emanations of Deity, and to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. On this basis, th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…out to her in an open boat. I had dismissed my servant and was the only passenger from shore. I note the fact as showing that I had in a sense broken with the past; the point will appear in a few paragraphs. The voyage was atrocious; the ship stank of oil, partly from the engines, partly from the cooking and partly from the crew. The storm continued unabated. We passed close to the lightship off the mouth of the Hooghly in thick sea fog; the people on the lightship are often five weeks or more without being able to communicate with the rest of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 252
…e foundations, li, 192 Upheaved from Chaos, ii. 33 Up, up, my bride! Away to ride, iii. 56 WAKE, fairy maid, for the day, 1. 14 Was it a sense of uttermost relief, ii. 83 Was thy fault to be too tender, ii, 3 Waters that weep upon the barren shore, ii. 26 We fear indeed that in the trap, ii. 99 We have forgotten all the days of fear, ii. 80 We know what fools (only) call, ii, 169 We lost a day! Nor kisses, nor regret, ii. 78 Well, but another way remains, ii. 155 Well have I said, ‘‘O God, Thou art, i. 193 Well, Iam lost! The whistle brings no …
1929 · PDF PAGE 293
…nd that therefore his best course was to find my wife and child, and endeavour to communicate it if possible. Luckily she had sufficient sense to keep herself and the baby out of his way. Only one thing was needed to put the lid on. When Forrest and I had done what was necessary, we proceeded to disinfect ourselves before rejoining the rest. The missionary Amundsen rushed up to us in great excitement and called our attention to an illustrated newspaper which he had just received. "Look," he cried, "there is the Norwegian royal family!" We burie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…er branch of physics. It is above all needful for the student to be armed with scientific knowledge, sympathetic apprehension and common sense. My training in mathematics and chemistry supplied me with the first of these qualities; my poetic affinities and wide reading with the second; while, for the third, I suppose I have to thank my practical ancestors. Being thus able to appreciate the inmost intention of my initiation, I was able to stand the shock of the events immediately subsequent. I was introduced to an abject assemblage of nonentitie…
1913 · PDF PAGE 604
…o 3, 7, 10, 12, as the case may be. Since our expression ‘common denominator’ is used in a figurative and not in a'strictly mathematical sense, the task is less complex than appears at first sight, and the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation of the Qabalah, provide a convenient scale. These 32 Paths are attributed by the Qabalists to the 10 Sephiroth, or Emanations of Deity, and to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. On this basis, th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 604
…o 3, 7, 10, 12, as the case may be. Since our expression ‘common denominator’ is used in a figurative and not in a'strictly mathematical sense, the task is less complex than appears at first sight, and the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation of the Qabalah, provide a convenient scale. These 32 Paths are attributed by the Qabalists to the 10 Sephiroth, or Emanations of Deity, and to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. On this basis, th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 333
…lously away from the Cairo working.) By the time he had written this chapter, I had brought him to see that materialism, in any ordinary sense of the word, was thoroughly unsatisfactory as an explanation of the universe; but he was not in the least inclined to accept any theories which might involve belief of any kind in a spiritual hierarchy. In the course of our argument I had myself been made uneasy by a subconscious feeling that, watertight as my system was in itself, certain legitimate inferences might be drawn from it which I was not draw…
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
…ot increase their burden, so we aspire to become pitiful and loving, to cherish ill- will toward none, to retire from those pleasures of sense which are the fruitful cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though w e aspire to renounce the pleasures of s ense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accom plishment of our aspiration. But if the desire to becom e pitiful and pure be but honest and earnest, we have gained the Second Step upon the Path—Sammasankappo, Right Aspiration. “…