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... book could belong exclusively to noble spirits, preserved like yours from worldly pettiness by solitude! They would know how to give to it the melodi... ...y in the two-fold struggle. The difficulty of communication with the outer world, either by land where the roads are impassable, or by sea where none ... ...e knowledge of things; the little that we learn of the laws of the visible world enables us to apprehend the immensity of the worlds invisible. I know... ...d efflo- rescence of our ideas is of little consequence if we compare that property, shared by many men, with the wholly individual faculty of communi... ...d by many men, with the wholly individual faculty of communicating to that property, by some mysteri- ous concentration, forces that are more or less ... ...iticise, and discuss these doctrines, so as to keep clearly in view my own intellectual neutrality be- tween him and Reason. “The life of Swedenborg w... ...e nitre of perpetual snows produces extraordinary phenom- ena in the human organization. “I asked him the cause of his emotion. ‘Swedenborg came to us... ...his tempestuous life conducted him. Art and science would have admired his organization in the light of a human model. Everything about him was symmet... ...hat budget of the relations which you perceive among created things, is an intellectual language which can be learned, is it not? Belief, the budget o...

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...t I have to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius a... ...a great host of minds that have had a kindred aspiration, have dreamt of a world of men better ordered, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities ... ...hiavelli. I picture him at San Casciano as he lived in retirement upon his property after the fall of the Republic, perhaps with a twinge of the tortu... ...fe, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hat- ing and personal... ...cracked stucco with stains of green— black and green. Conferva and soot… . Property, they are! … Beware of Things, Dick, beware of Things! Before you ... ...l over me. I stank of it. It made me ill. It isn’t living—it’s minding… . “Property’s the curse of life. Property! Ugh! Look at this country all cut u... ... Thibet. “Well, anyway,” said Hatherleigh, escaping from our hands like an intellectual frog, “Semitic or not, I’ve got no use for decency.” 71 H G W... ... have found others. I should have aimed at making a hard-trained, capable, intellectually active, proud type of man. Everything else would have been m... ...and en- riching conception of the world of men as a complex of eco- nomic, intellectual and moral processes… . 5 5 5 5 5 Socialism is an intellectual ...

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...re indepen- dent of daily necessities, so that he was free to go about the world under its direction. It led him far. It led him into situ- ations tha... ...be. He never faltered in his persuasion that behind the dingy face of this world, the earthy stubbornness, the baseness and dulness of himself and all... ...der it so perplexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet o... ...thero had had together. Here was the same old toughness of mind, a kind of intellectual hardihood, that had some- times shocked his schoolfellows. Ben... ...d, and his own instinctive unreasonable reluctance to follow those gallant intellectual leads. If fear is an ancient instinctive boundary that the mod... ...th and came not to bring peace but a sword.” With something bordering upon intellectual consternation, White, who was a decent self-respecting sceptic... ...poor dear king beheaded, you’d only get a Napoleon. If you divided all the property up between everybody, you’d have rich and poor again in a year.” B... ...f every day. Benham imag- ined himself at large on his liberating steed of property while indeed he was mounted on the made horse of Civilization; whi... ...eatly to see her and also he wanted to make certain arrangements about his property. He returned by way of Hungary, and sent tele- grams like shouts o...

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...ndifferent apartment in which the nervous and mental troubles of the outer world eddied for a time on their way to the distinguished special- ist. A b... ...good. All to the good. It prevented things being used up too fast. And the world was running by habit; the inertia was tremendous. You could take all ... ...l sorts of liberties. But all this is altered. We’re living in a different world. The public won’t stand things it used to stand. It’s a new public. I... ...pologetics of a rake,” he tried presently. “A common type, stripped of his intellectual dressing. Ev- ery third manufacturer from the midlands or the ... ... head slowly with the corners of his mouth drawn in. For some years now an intellectual reverie had been play- ing an increasing part in the good doct... ...t with his hands apposed, his head on one side, and an expression of great intellectual contentment on his face while these eman- cipated ideas gave a... ...their conscience and honour than they have ever been before. In matters of property, economics and public conduct it will probably be just the reverse... ... indeed. She would some day, she laughed, be swimming in oil and such like property. Her 108 The Secret Places of the Heart interest in Sir Richmond’... ...13 H G Wells one had a thousand ways of defending one’s daughter and one’s property against that daughter’s husband, there was no power on earth by wh...

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...es, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling; concerning ... ...the most have soared over it altogether heed- less; regarding Clothes as a property, not an accident, as quite natural and spontaneous, like the leave... ... our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the world; have feud or favor with no one,—save indeed the Devil, with whom, as... ...s must have occasioned little less surprise than it has to the rest of the world. For our- selves, at least, few things have been more unexpected. Pro... ... to Horace), and with them, the whole fabric of Government, Legisla- tion, Property, Police, and Civilized Society, are dissolved, in wails and howls.... ... perhaps, considering his high func- tion (for is not he too a Defender of Property, and Sover- eign armed with the terrors of the Law?), to a certain... ...nts of social business, in govern- ment, education, in manual, commercial, intellectual fab- rication of every sort, man’s Want is supplied by true Wa... ...se_, she can be no other than the Countess and mistress of the same; whose intellectual tendencies, and good-will to Teufelsdrockh, whether on the foo... ...te, in any sense, and could not, like Rousseau, recommend either bodily or intellectual Nudity, and a return to the savage state: all this our readers...

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...seen that slavery is agitated in the religious as well as in the political world. Judge Douglas is very much afraid in the triumph that the Republican... ...ut as the beasts of the field; when you have extinguished his soul in this world and placed him where the ray of hope is blown out as in the darkness ... ...f time and business, bears pretty heavily upon one no better off in [this] world’s goods than I; but as I had the post of honor, it is not for me to b... ...ociety now begins to produce cases of the transfer for debts of the entire property of railroad corpora- tions; and to enable transferees to use and e... ...rpora- tions; and to enable transferees to use and enjoy the trans- ferred property, 1egislation and adjudication begin to be nec- essary. Shall this ... ...sed superior devotion to the personal rights of men, holding the rights of property to be secondary only, and greatly inferior, and assuming that the ... ...my equal in many respects,—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave o... ...ltimate con- summation is the original and chief purpose of the Republican organization. I say “chief purpose” of the Republican organiza- tion; for i... ...to command men was sur- passingly great. This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, const...

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...d of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer’s own nat... ...orecastle to the cabin, spent a tempestuous manhood, and returned from his world wanderings, to grow old, and die, and mingle his dust with the natal ... ... their country’s ser vice—as I verily believe it was—withdrew to a better world. It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interfer ence, a s... ...there was light within him, and that it was only the outward medium of the intellectual lamp that obstructed the rays in their passage. The closer you... ...ty years before—such scenes and sounds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense. Meanwhile, the merchants and ship masters, the spruce c... ...not be warmed and rendered malleable by any heat that I could kindle at my intellectual forge. They would take neither the glow of passion nor the ten... ...ll, earlier than that of our story, when a dispute concerning the right of property in a pig not only caused a fierce and bitter contest in the legisl... ...nglishman, but now a seven years’ slave. During that term he was to be the property of his master, and as much a commodity of bargain and sale as an o... ...hitherward, and, as we might say, seized upon that man or thing as her own property, so far as she desired it, but without yielding the minutest degre...

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...n house, perhaps in his own heart. The lodging-house is Mme. Vauquer’s own property. It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve-Sainte- Ge... ...wls, each protected by a plate, while he purrs his morning greeting to the world. A moment later the widow shows her face; she is tricked out in a net... ...of the commissary-general to the armies of the Republic had nothing in the world but her jointure and her widow’s pension, and some day she might be o... ...t be obliged to leave the helpless, inexperienced girl to the mercy of the world. The good soul, therefore, took Victorine to mass every Sunday, and t... ...consisted in annuities, lived on the little estate of Rastignac. The whole property brought in about three thou- sand francs; and though the amount va... ...an who cannot understand a piece of reason- ing, who is indifferent to all intellectual pleasures, and falls asleep at the play, a Parisian Dolibom in... ...s are at home. They send you twelve hun- dred francs a year, and the whole property only brings in three thousand francs all told. We have a cook and ... ...ynicism and contempt for mankind invested him, the physical strength of an organization proof against all trials. The blood flew to his face, and his ...

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...lare. The sleeper had awakened and lay very still, oppressed by a sense of intellectual effort that had survived the dream in which it had arisen. Was... ...tal crises. He was a belated doubter. Whatever questionings had marked his intellectual adolescence had either been very slight or had been too ad- eq... ...things for granted. It had been very easy and pleasant for him to take the world as he found it and God as he found Him. Indeed for all his years up t... ... rare that those marked for epis- copal dignities go so far into the outer world as Archbishop Lang of York, who began as a barrister. This early pred... ...ind, when a steely-blue sky full of colourless light filled a stiff-necked world with whitish high lights and inky shadows. These bright harsh days of... ...lf what all this trouble about votes and things means.” “And we starve you—intellectually?” “You know I don’t think that. But you are busy….” “ Aren’t... ... of their vows. Everywhere it was church and creed and nation and king and property and partisan- ship, and nowhere was it the True God that the pries... ...; “there are always people ready for 157 H G Wells houses.” The line that property in land and houses takes in England, the ex-bishop realized, is al... ...ent ruling- class voice, the name of the offending landlord. “It’s all the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that side of the railway,” sai...

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...nticed him; it may have been resentment of return from this fine, bold man-world to a restricted region of wives and stenographers, and of suggestions... ...plift and flipflop and settlement- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’... ...he Great Scholar of the neighbor- hood; the authority on everything in the world except babies, cooking, and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blod... ...ed by Widows and Orphans; and that whatever it desired to do would benefit property-owners by increas- ing rental values, and help the poor by lowerin... ...union is of value because it keeps out radical unions, which would destroy property. No one ought to be forced to belong to a union, however. All labo... ...You see—you see it’s like this: In the first place, maybe the owner of the property exaggerated when he put it into my hands, and it certainly isn’t m... ...nt of the Boosters’ Club, a weekly lunch-club, local chapter of a national organization which promoted sound business and friendliness among Regular F... ...rd Littlefield. “Still, at that, you can’t blame ‘em. They haven’t got any intellectual stimulus such as you get up here in the city,” said Chum Frink... ...f these analyses before, the conversation staggered. Bab- bitt tried to be intellectual and deal with General Topics. He said some thoroughly sound th...

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...have to laud for the truth of his dealings towards me. Now, therefore, the world may see the injustice that charges me with incapacity to write these ... ... wilderness, where he might have the least possible communication with the world which scoffed at him. He settled himself, with this view, upon a patc... ...s ground;” so that poor David might have lost his edifice by mistaking the property where he had erected it. Of course, the proprietor entertained no ... ...nished to find him- self close to a being who seemed not to belong to this world, as he was the most hideous dwarf that the sun had ever shone on. His... ...ty, where there was an interchange of all that was amiable—of all that was intellectual? Have I not lost all this? Am I not residing here, the veriest... ...ts of life were generally known, yet the laxity of feeling with respect to property prevented his being looked on with the abhorrence with which he mu... ...g to en- gage in a Jacobite conspiracy. But there were some gentle- men of property, who, either from early principle, from reli- gious motives, or sh... ...int which she put upon her internal feelings extended even to her muscular organization. Then raising her head, and drawing in her breath strongly ere...

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...the heights along the right bank of the Seine had long injured the sale of property in what is called the “Latin quarter,” when reasons, which will be... ...r, determined his sister to the purchase of real estate. She obtained this property for the small sum of forty-six thou- sand francs; certain extras a... ... all, the price paid was fifty-two thousand francs. A de- scription of the property given in the style of an advertise- ment, and the results obtained... ...es the reason of some of those apostasies which have, at times, amazed the world and horrified it. If guilty, women of that age fall into one of sever... ...lfilling painful and costly duties, the rewards for which were not in this world. All the same, however, she was conscious of another clamoring voice;... ...om your motives—which, in- deed, I have no right to do—and my part in this world is certainly not to mingle with earthly powers; but please par- don m... ... associates well; and therefore, in spite of the perpetual activity of his intellectual forces, in spite of the perpetual watchfulness his personality... ...oth- ing above the ordinary, and to whom I am surprised that a man of your intellectual superiority allows a supremacy in your household which she use... ...and a merit which ignores itself,—a thing of the utmost consequence in all intellectual superiority—” “Really, madame,” said Phellion, “you force us t...

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...nymous gentleman, who in this bashful man- ner gave a bruised heart to the world. He made no pretension to novelty. “Our new thoughts have thrilled de... ...ients. There was a half- sigh floating through his pages for those days of intellectual coxcombry, when ideas come to us affecting the embraces of vir... ...sed to be his equal, and he judged her as his equal. She had blackened the world’s fair aspect for him. In the presence of that world, so different to... ...ed by him nobly, accord- ing to his light, he was condemned to undergo the world’s harsh judgment: not for the fault—for its atonement. “—Married his ... ...hild had seen—— Not to believe in it was almost to rob her of her personal property. After satisfactorily studying his old state of mind in her, Sir A... ...his young lady he loved, because of a ward of his, heiress to an im- mense property, whom he desired his son to espouse; and because his darling Letit... ...as comical as their frolic, and their frenzies more comical still. On this intellectual eminence the wise youth had built his castle, and he had lived... ...tem:—could there be a finer balance of power than in a community where men intellectually nil, have lawful van- tage and a gold-lace hat on? How sooth... ...he altar. Perhaps he would rather have married the mother. He was a man of property, well born, tolerably well educated, and had, when Mrs. Doria reje...

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... dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull, but if she should ever learn t... ...ld earn her living. But how she was to earn it, how she was to conquer the world—almost entirely for the world’s own good—she did not see. Most of the... ...he astonishment of emotion, in a glory of abasement. Her eyes mothered the world. Stewart Snyder peered at her. He rammed his large red fists into his... ...here’s so many nice people.” Mrs. Dawson looked to Mr. Mott for social and intellectual aid. He lectured: “There’s a fine class of people. I don’t lik... ...brought out the young smart set, the hunting squire set, the re- spectable intellectual set, and the solid financial set, they sat up with gaiety as w... ...in promised, “such a cozy group, and yet it puts you in touch with all the intellectual thoughts that are going on everywhere.” Early in March Mrs. We... ...r freight; a deity created by man that he might keep himself respectful to Property, as elsewhere he had el- evated and served as tribal gods the mine... ...g’s Good, This Means You, for all knockers of prosperity and the rights of property! “Fellow citizens, there’s a lot of folks, even right here in this... ...ely, so that she wondered if she might not enlist in the militant suffrage organization and be allowed to go to jail. Always she was to perceive in Wa...

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...rk Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of Bergen ONE DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years sin... ...ty of all this fairy spectacle blinked and glowed a massed multitude of gas-jets which seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds ... ...of branches to a point about twenty- five feet above-ground, and from there upward so thick with boughs that not a ray of sunlight could pierce throug... ...body finds fault or feels outraged; no harm has been done. It seemed to be a part of corps etiquette to keep a dog or so, too. I mean a corps dog—the ... ...riendless banishment; but that you may not starve I grant you this one grace, that each woman may bear with her from this place as much of her most va... ...the church would have set up a miracle-factory there and made plenty of money out of it. The den could be moved into some portions of France and made ... ...ow, whereas I held the opinion that it merely proved that the primeval Swiss was not the dull savage he is represented to have been, but was a being o... ...ced writer or a cloudy intellect, whereas with the Germans it is doubtless the mark and sign of a practiced pen and of the presence of that sort of lu... ...hments. To wholly do away with them would be best, for ideas are more easily received and digested when they come one at a time than when they come in...

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... Guaisqlain. The tax-gath- erer now writes the name, as do the rest of the world, du Guenic. 10 Balzac At the end of a silent, damp, and gloomy lane ... ...he family. It is as it was in the days when the crusaders of the Christian world invented these symbols by which to recognize each other; the Guaisnic... ...ing he had, with a prudence unique in revolutionary annals, sold his whole property of every kind to his elder and only sister, Mademoiselle Zephirine... ...ven thousand francs a year from the rental of lands. She had come into her property at thirty-six years of age, and managed it herself, in- specting i... ...ad formed, ever since the birth of Calyste, the plan of trans- mitting her property to the chevalier by marrying him to whichever of her nieces the Vi... ...ut to write the impieties that actors repeat, 50 Balzac to roam about the world, first with an enemy to the Pope, and then with a musician, ah! Calys... ...r course to be circumscribed by the limita- tions of other women? Has that intellectual strength weak- ened her heart? Has she no charm? Can she desce... ...ion, I be- lieve was not without its influence on her conduct. She took an intellectual part in the new doctrines, which swarmed, during the three yea... ...de his external life. Claude contemplates himself within the domain of his intellectual kingdom, and abandons his outer man with Diogenic indif- feren...

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...r engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream for a writer! Because written words have their accent, ... ...s shouted, and fails to be heard, perhaps, and goes down-wind, leaving the world unmoved? Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a sage and s... ...velist lives in his work. He stands there, the only reality in an invented world, among imagi- nary things, happenings, and people. Writing about them... ...pt those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permis- sible, up to and even beyon... ...ce writing-table you have got for my room,” I remarked. “It is really your property,” he said, keeping his eyes on me, with an interested and wistful ... ...de- clared with calm finality that there were no accounts to render and no property to inherit. The whole fortune was his very own. He was very good-n... ..., but the promotion in the Polish army was slow, because, being a separate organization, it took no part in the wars of the Rus- sian Empire against e... ...hatter of every vagrant trader in the Is- lands. Y our name was the common property of the winds; it, as it were, floated naked over the waters about ...

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...our from sun- light, and are joyless in colour as in shade. When the lower world is under pushing steam, they wear the look of the re- volted sons of ... ...e full bow of the eyes relieved it. In profile they showed little of their intellectual quality, but what some might have thought a playful lumi- nous... ...her!” The struggles between them continued sharply during this exchange of intellectual shots; but hearing Ugo Corte’s voice, the prisoner’s confident... ...ade the journey of the Signor Capofinale, who visited the other end of the world by stand- ing on his head?” Barto Rizzo rolled out a burly laugh. “Si... ...ear that in mind. Is there any person whom you, my Luigi, like best in the world?” It was a winning question, and though Luigi was not the dupe of its... ...es, to report progress in the settled scheme for the recovery of Giacomo’s property, as well for his widow as for the heirs of his body. ‘It is a duty... ...lery) ‘would he insist on written securities and mort- gages of my private property when he lends me money? How different the world is from the romanc... ...humbly, that those who knew him felt that he had risen to his high seat of intellectual contempt. He could indulge himself, having shown his courage. ... ...e supports me. We have both taken precautions’ (she smiled) ‘to secure our property. If you are despoiled, we will share with you. And believe, oh! in...

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...wreck of his accumulated fortunes. The colonel of gendarmerie had left his property to his sister on learning the marriage of his brother the artiller... ...esentative of the people, who had despoiled the Cinq-Cygne family of their property. [See “An Historical Mystery.”] Grevin was not only one of the mos... ... Balzac with so great a contentment with himself that he smiled on all the world and under all circumstances. Those simpering lips smiled at a funeral... ...man to the house of Simeuse, enriched by the purchase of the confis- cated property of emigres was, like Simon Giguet, a son of Arcis. Old Goulard, hi... ...Marne, and Haut-Marne, richly endowed with vineyards, the fame of which is world-wide, are otherwise full of flourishing industries. Without speaking ... ...al life, might still evolve from that living block a charming woman of the world. Madame Beauvisage had had the courage to bring up her 51 Balzac dau... ...t often does them good to suppress such conceit. But really, Armand has an intellectual development and a power of rea- soning beyond his age. Do you ... ...- ther society, nor commerce, nor curiosities, nor environs; and where all intellectual activity spends itself on the mak- ing of pickled pork, soap-g... ...iving; hence the conclusion is that the peasant-women of Champagne have an intellectual superiority of which, up to this time, neither you nor I were ...

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... the “Typhoon” volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about. This so strangely negative but disturbing mood lasted... ...ardly have been two exploits of that peculiar kind in the same part of the world and both connected with a South Ameri- can revolution. The fellow had... ...alf-forgotten, faces grown dim… . Perhaps, perhaps, there still was in the world some- thing to write about. Yet I did not see anything at first in th... ...in his gig to see what could be done for the protec- tion of the Company’s property. That and the prop- erty of the railway were preserved by the Euro... ...na- tional, human, and divine, reverts now to the Gov- ernment as national property, shall remain closed till the sword drawn for the sacred defence o... ...tself, upon a strip of scarlet velvet, hung an old cavalry sabre, once the property of Don Enrique Gould, the hero of the Occidental Province, present... ...n from early childhood and without fortune, brought up in an atmosphere of intellectual interests, had never considered the 71 Joseph Conrad aspects ... ...nd for ten minutes, almost without drawing breath, went on hurling himself intellectually to the assault of Charles Gould’s po- lite silence; and when... ...ugged his shoulders as if to assure himself of his disdain. Cold, dull. No intellectuality. Red hair. A true Englishman. He despised him. His face dar...