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...e Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...ocean. It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was sup... ...er Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that A... ...re written by St. Paul. The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek. The Bible is the bestseller of all times. More than 5... ...bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a... ... award him the title of El Libertador (the Liberator). The seeds of his personality cult were sown. When he lost Caracas to the royalists in yet ano... ...San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947. Aung San may be a... ...efore 4 BC. For example, He was said to have been born during the reign of King Herod, who died in 4 BC. Much more here: http://webexhibi... ...pond. Presumably, this amply sums up the nature of his namesakes: narcissists. The mythological Narcissus was rejected by the nymph Echo and was pu...

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...of Life Energy Pg 192 The Definition of What is Human Pg 198 The Origin of Culture Pg 206 The Tool-Dynamic of Civilized Culture Pg 212 Wonder ... ... Pg 269 The Dynamics of the Transition Pg 279 The Creation of Robber Baron Culture Pg 280 The Basic Factors Pg 282 The Consequences of Accumul... ...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ... of addiction. By that, I mean literally addiction to anything period: be it heroin, sugar, salt, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, food, meat, ego gratific... ... a role-model might be a positive influence on children who would mimic their heroes, and try to play all the positions well, do everything well… wor... ...yed their masters. The winners strutted their asses off and became household heroes for the Roman masses: as the modern fake wrestlers are today ... ... classical source of 250 myths. "The poem is the most comprehensive, creative mythological work that has come down to us from antiquity" In other ...

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...n. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social struct...

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...lical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CON... ...r religious institution, or we absorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most ... ...rity of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been on... ...53 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend through my studies of Greek. Might Jung, with his statements about the hopelessness of ever achie... ...e scanty, understanding of the nature of human life. Translations from the Greek and Hebrew are my own, except in a few instances specifically noted i... ...gious tradition, taken over and expanded by the Romans, was familiar with “heroes”—human persons who through their na- ture and actions acquired a typ... ...y a god—a view only marginal- ly different from that of seeing Jesus as a “hero” in the Greek religious meaning of the term. But in Greek cul- ture, f... ..., having merged with God, returns from the experience with the feeling 88. Mythological winged animals, frequent in ornamentation of religious buildin... ...English as “the Creator,” though some anthropolo- gists call him a Culture Hero 140 —a bringer of valuable gifts to mankind—rather than a Creator. In ...

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...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...urposeful action). c. The dreamer must be the main protagonist of his dreams, the hero of his dreamy narratives. This, overwhelmingly, is the cas... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat... ...n had been but a fantasy." (Napoleon Bonaparte, "Thoughts") "They may all e called Heroes, in as much as they have derived their purposes and their... ...into pieces - such were Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon ... World- historical men - the Heroes of an epoch - must therefore be recognized as its clear-s... ...alism and science are pushing the limits, infused with the kind of hubris which the mythological Gods always chose to penalize (remember Prometheus?... ...st. Communism touted the ideals of equality and justice - while Nazism was a quasi-mythological interpretation of history. Still, both were highly ... ...strumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that? The current - mythological - image of scientific enquiry is as follows: With...

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...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...urposeful action). c. The dreamer must be the main protagonist of his dreams, the hero of his dreamy narratives. This, overwhelmingly, is the cas... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat... ...n had been but a fantasy." (Napoleon Bonaparte, "Thoughts") "They may all e called Heroes, in as much as they have derived their purposes and their... ...into pieces - such were Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon ... World- historical men - the Heroes of an epoch - must therefore be recognized as its clear-s... ...alism and science are pushing the limits, infused with the kind of hubris which the mythological Gods always chose to penalize (remember Prometheus?... ...st. Communism touted the ideals of equality and justice - while Nazism was a quasi-mythological interpretation of history. Still, both were highly ... ...strumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that? The current - mythological - image of scientific enquiry is as follows: With...

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...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... ...lace. Was it more of a conglomeration of 300 years of warfare between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achi... ...me people pursue physical beauty. The use of time and money often goes to cultivating that which is only skin deep, enlarging bosoms, shortening nose... ...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ...He allow Peter and Paul to be killed?, the innocents to be slaughtered by Herod?, Joan of Arc to be burned? ―If God is omniscient can you have... ...t. Our problem is that every society nurses its 105 children with the mythological milk of its geography. So the infant learns that god is vengef... ...e are self-centered. They want more for themselves. The addict wants more heroin. The homeowner wants to remodel or to buy a better house. The teena... ...eas of the Constitution in the Federalist papers. The ‗father of history‘ Herodotus was not an eye witness to the Peloponnesian Wars. Did he see ever...

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...services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet culture. Content intermediaries grade content and separate the qualitat... ...ttp://www.Turnitin.com Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to k... ...ers, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies wh... ... biologists like Richard Dawkins and Rupert Sheldrake developed models of cultural evolution. Dawkins' "meme" is a cultural element (like a behaviou... ... Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old French, Polish, Russian, Romanian, and... ... - Mother of all Media The Internet is the technological solution to the mythological "home entertainment centre" debate. It is almost universall... ...op service. Macedonia just handed a second mobile operator license to the Greek OTE. "By the end of 2005, the total number of mobile subscribers in ... ...g the world. Inebriated by his dreams, in keeping with the way of the old heroes, he went to the battlefields with his new toys and his grey uniform...

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...ead souls” no less than on the living ones. The plan of Chichikov, Gogol’s hero-villain, was therefore to make a journey through Russia and buy up the... ...erived from his Cossack ancestry. He realised that he had drawn a host of “heroes,” “one more com- monplace than another, that there was not a single ... ...on, however, that it actually occurs only in the Slavonic version from the Greek, and not in the Russian translation made direct from the Hebrew. 10 ... ...he most ample meed of praise.” Again, to the Chief of Police 21 Gogol our hero had passed a most gratifying remark on the sub- ject of the local gend... ...ery attitude, seemed to connote an excess of eagerness to curry favour and cultivate a closer acquaintance. On first speaking to the man, his ingratia... ... bib with which the footman had encircled it. On hear- ing this distinctly Greek name (to which, for some un- known reason, Manilov always appended th... ...herefore he decided then and there to have a talk with his hostess, and to cultivate her closer acquaintance. Accordingly he peeped through the chink ... ...herish a prejudice against the ini- tial character of the word—namely, the Greek theta, or th. 93 Gogol “Do not insult me with the term Thetuk,” reto... ...oks on the Arts. Extracting a huge tome in which some by no means reticent mythological illustrations were contained, he set himself to examine these ...

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.... After a while, the widow put boxes of earth in front of her windows, and cultivated those aerial gardens that police regulations forbid, though thei... ...own to the same sum. By way of penance for her former over-confidence, she heroically cut off her own little enjoyments. As with other timid souls of ... ...he preference of their mother, encouraged it by sharing her worship of the hero who had carried Napoleon’s orders on two battlefields, and was wounded... ...s right,” said Joseph. “France is too proud of her he- roes to let them be heroic elsewhere. Napoleon may return once more.” However, to satisfy his m... ...arth, Murillo, Charlet, Raffet, Gavarni, Meissonier, Art itself adores and cultivates, especially during the carnival. The man in whom poor Agathe tho... ...in of the vine-growers, who are more and more bur- dened with the costs of cultivation and the taxes; just as the ruin of the woollen trade is the res... ...ll in love with 137 Balzac him at first sight. Her heart was cleft by the mythological arrow,—admirable description of an effect of nature which the ... ...mythological arrow,—admirable description of an effect of nature which the Greeks, unable to conceive the chivalric, ideal, and mel- ancholy love bego... ...e of Titians’ Venuses!” Adolphine and Madame Hochon thought he was talking Greek; but Agathe signed to them behind his back, as if to say that she was...

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...arrier’s blouse, and how shall you recognize the god- like creature of the Greek or Roman chisel? The eyes note and compare before the heart has time ... ...mes for their wit, their beauty, or their lov- ers; one who passed was the heroine Mlle. des Touches, so well known as Camille Maupin, the great woman... ...wim. This is the place for men of letters and thinkers and poets; here you cultivate glory, and I know how fair the harvest is that we 41 Balzac reap... ...ypocritical man- ners of his country. Woman for him is duty incarnate. His heroines, with possibly one or two exceptions, are all alike; he has drawn ... ...or Daniel d’Arthez, burning blocks of spent tan, and facing poverty like a hero, not a word of com- plaint came from him; he was as sober as any elder... ...ne hand, and in the other a flaming sword. An angel, something akin to the mythological ab- straction which lives at the bottom of a well, and to the ... ...autiful youth come down from the hills of the Latin Quarter. Glorious as a Greek god, Lucien took a cab, and reached the Cafe Servel at a quarter to s... ...u,” said Lousteau as he came in. “Your countenance, worthy of the greatest Greek sculptors, has worked unutterable havoc behind the scenes. You are in... ... himself, like his manner of life, was in grotesque contrast with the airy mythological look of his rooms; and it may be remarked that the most eccent...

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...marry again for the sake of the daughter I adore, not choosing ei- ther to cultivate any such connection in my own establish- ment, though I had at th... ...e is a Duprez in petticoats. It cost me two thousand francs a year only to cultivate her talent as a singer. She made me music-mad; I took a box at th... ...s such a patron of the arts. Oh, what is his name?— a dwarf.—Ah, the Duc d’Herouville. This fine gentleman in- sists on having Josepha for his very ow... ...they were alone together, she had tried to destroy Adeline’s nose, a truly Greek nose, which the old mothers admired. Though she was beaten for this m... ...eedling that could never 48 Cousin Betty blossom,” said he, laughing. The hero of Forzheim rather liked Cousin Betty, for there were certain points o... ...nd hastily vanished, as though the Baron’s face had affected them like the mythological head of Medusa. “It would seem that they know me,” thought the... ... the gravy for a brave soldier just home from Algiers. “Great evils demand heroic remedies.” “Valerie, where are you off to?” cried Marneffe, standing... ...ard manual labor or undertake an important work in sculpture. All this was Greek to Lisbeth Fischer. She replied to the unhappy man that Paris offered... ...l, is supremely great above every other type, whether Hindoo, Egyptian, or Greek. Virginity, the mother of great things, /magna parens rerum/, holds i...

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... monuments, talking in a low tone of British victories, and commending the heroes to my undivided attention. I understood very early that it was my du... ...?’ he would ask me as we left our house. I had to decide whether we took a hero or an author, which I soon learnt to do with capricious resolution. We... ...hers because near bed-time in the evening my father told me stories of our hero of the day, and neither Pitt nor Shakespeare lost an eye, or an arm, o... ...’s!’ said Temple. The firemen were on the roofs of the houses, handsome as Greek heroes, and it really did look as if they were engaged in slaying an ... ...dig- nity reflect on the dreadful hiatus in our studies. ‘Is that Latin or Greek?’ he asked. I would not reply to the cold-blooded question. He said t... ...ly to the cold-blooded question. He said the New T estament was written in Greek, he knew, and happy were those who could read it in the original. ‘We... ...haps, trifled a cavalry sabre, became one of my settled dreams. The diffi- cult part of the scheme appeared to me the obtaining of my father’s consent... ...t light. Among his part- ing remarks was an impressive adjuration to me to cultivate the squire’s attachment at all costs. ‘Do this,’ he said, ‘and I ... ...ntitling him the Perkin Warbeck of society …’ ‘—Reference might be made to mythological heroes …’ Hereat I cried out mercy. Captain DeWitt (stretched ...

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... long, steep ridges, a thousand feet high and densely wooded clear to their sum- mits, with the exception of one section which has been shaved and put... ...but he knows what he knows—it is not be- fogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay. For instance, he does not merely read and... ...ybody congratulated, everybody cried, and the whole atmosphere was filled with praise and with joy unspeakable. It seems to me then that I would rathe... ...reastpin, and then come and tell us all about it.” It was a cruel chill to give to a poor little devil’s gushing vehemence. He was expecting to be a s... ...en hundred years ago. She had a number of rich and noble lovers and one poor and obscure one, Sir Wendel Lobenfeld. With the native chuckleheadedness ... ... in the chambers, and their quilts and curtains and canopies were decorated with curious hand- work, and the walls and ceilings frescoed with historic... ... up to a point where that picture throws him into as mad an ecstasy of pleasure as it used to throw me into one of rage, last year, when I was ignoran... ...? Why have you used all this Chinese and Choctaw and Zulu rubbish?” “Because I didn’t know any French but two or three words, and I didn’t know any La... ...and I went ashore, with others, to view the town. I got separated from the rest, and wan- dered about alone, until late in the afternoon, when I en- t...

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...ae- sar was a Roman Consul, or an Emperor, and that Alexander was either a Greek or a Macedonian; he would have con- ceded either quality or origin in... ...to the Theatre Francais that evening, to see the celebrated actress in her mythological role, concerning which he gained some information from his nei... ...tter than other men, can appreciate the element of grandeur to be found in heroism in sabots, in the Evangel clad in rags. The Book may be found elsew... ...ed roofs, but the surrounding land was laid out in fields that were highly cultivated, and the old garden spaces had been turned into meadows, watered... ...erstition of theirs. Far be it from me to blame them for it; has not their cult of the cretin often furnished me with an argument when I have tried to... ...arted two farms, quite as much for the sake of bringing my waste land into cultivation as with a view to giving an object-lesson in the use of modern ... ...f it he came back here, sorely disheartened but resigned to his fate. This hero unknown to fame does draining work on the land, for which he is paid t... ...hat you are wanting in modesty even if you should tell me of some piece of heroism on your part; and when a man is quite sure that he will not be misu...

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...aceful, but has a fuller and more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of... ...sympathies. Perhaps it is the very lack of moral severity, of any high and heroic ingredient in the character of the Faun, that makes it so delightful... ...lothed in fine, downy fur. In the coarser representations of this class of mythological creatures, there is another token of brute kindred,—a certain ... ...ed it ever so much. It is a lady of exceedingly pliable disposition; now a heroine of romance, and now a rustic maid; yet all for show; being created,... ...og- nition of the highest excellence in art, than there would have been in cultivating her not inconsiderable share of talent for the production of wo... ...r a man loses the capacity for this kind of affection, in proportion as he culti- vates and refines himself.” “Dear me!” said Hilda, drawing impercept... ...tal atmo- sphere; and gentle and soft as she appears, it will be as diffi- cult to win her heart as to entice down a white bird from its sunny freedom... ... The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculp- tor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and amon...

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...aceful, but has a fuller and more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of... ...sympathies. Perhaps it is the very lack of moral severity, of any high and heroic ingredient in the character of the Faun, that makes it so delightful... ...lothed in fine, downy fur. In the coarser representations of this class of mythological creatures, there is another token of brute kindred,—a certain ... ...ed it ever so much. It is a lady of exceedingly pliable disposition; now a heroine of romance, and now a rustic maid; yet all for show; being created,... ...og- nition of the highest excellence in art, than there would have been in cultivating her not inconsiderable share of talent for the production of wo... ...r a man loses the capacity for this kind of affection, in proportion as he culti- vates and refines himself.” “Dear me!” said Hilda, drawing impercept... ... The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculp- tor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and amon... ...ents which the artist haft in view. The remainder of the gallery comprises mythological sub- jects, such as nude Venuses, Ledas, Graces, and, in short... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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...d delight of living in these degenerate times, to see it. As if I were the hero of 21 Charles Dickens some high achievement! The light in the doleful... ...ishing rapid ity, that an uninitiated bystander would find it very diffi cult, if not impossible, to follow the progress of the game. 31 Charles Di... ... and round me, as if he half believed, for the moment, that I might be the hero come to marry the lady, and set all to rights; but discovering his mis... ...a in the fourteenth century, and about which there was war made and a mock heroic poem by Tassone, too. Being quite con tent, however, to look at th... ...Romeo and Juliet. In another there was a collection, under a colonnade, of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan remains, pre sided over by an ancient man who m... ... smartly; and I was fortunate enough to observe one gentleman attired as a Greek warrior, catch a light whiskered brigand on the nose (he was in the v... ... precision that was much applauded by the by standers. As this victorious Greek was exchanging a face tious remark with a stout gentleman in a doorw... ...Italy game, bottles, glasses, and the like; familiar classical stories, or mythological fables, always forcibly and plainly told; con ceits of cupids... ...street after street, are still lying underneath the roots of all the quiet cultivation, waiting to be turned up to the light of day; is something so w...

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...chambers, at two louis each, makes six louis. Two louis, monsieur, are not much; but six louis make a great deal.” The unknown, from red, as we have s... ...e one of Tasso’s or Ariosto’s epics. The wonders of those times, to which the people of ours would refuse belief, were every- 102 Ten Years Later – V... ...ld refuse belief, were every- 102 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 day occurrences. For five years together, I was a hero ev- ery day; at least, so I was to... ...d D’Artagnan — we ought not to say arose, but bounded up. In fact, Bazin bounded up, carrying with him his little low chair, which the children tried ... ...ECIDEDLY,” SAID D’ARTAGNAN to himself, “I have struck a good vein. That star which shines once in the life of every man, which shone for Job and Iris,... ...r all.” “Even for what I have just said to you?” “Listen! would you submit to those who govern ill? Oh! it is written: Cacos politeuousi. You grant me... ...aoul turned away his eyes in compassion, he pointed to the musketeers the gibbets laden with their melancholy fruit. “Poor devils!” said he, “I hope t... ...rkness the luminous fields and walls. “Eh! eh!” said D’Artagnan, at the aspect of those masses of black rocks, “these are fortifications which do not ... ....” “I was trying,” said the marquise, raising her beautiful eyes brightened with an indication of growing temper, “I was trying to discover to what yo...

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...ts coming 13 John Dewey within urgent daily interests. But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. It is far from t... ... own resources and ideals. Education is thus a foster- ing, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. All of these words mean that it implies attention to ... ... activity applies to getting through speech or reading the idea of, say, a Greek helmet, where no direct use of any kind enters in. What shared activi... ...stand are combined. Thus the words in which a child learns about, say, the Greek helmet originally got a meaning (or were understood) by use in an act... ...helmet has its use. For the time being, the one who understands the words “Greek helmet” becomes mentally a partner with those who used the helmet. He... ...of states, is the work of the “world-spirit.” Individuals, save the great “heroes” who are the chosen organs of the world- spirit, have no share or lo... ...ulties of ob- servation, recollection, willing, thinking, etc., are purely mythological. There are no such ready-made powers wait- ing to be exercised... ...e natural mode of approach to historical study. The lives of great men, of heroes and leaders, make concrete and vi- tal historic episodes otherwise a... ...intellectual history. We are only just beginning to realize that the great heroes who have ad- vanced human destiny are not its politicians, generals,...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ...e felt that it would never do to decline. The academic career also has its heroic obligations, so I stand here without further deprecatory words. Let ... ...s tual structure of the universe, is the object of the tran- scendentalist cult. In that address to the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 w... ... life too sol- emnly. “All is vanity” is the relieving word in all diffi- cult crises for this mode of thought, which that ex- quisite literary geniu... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...me into many biographies, as if al- most essential to the formation of the hero. I ought to speak of these, to say that any man has an advan- tage, no... ...xperience of his life. This, he says, is truly to live, and I exult in the heroic opportunity and adventure. The systematic cultivation of healthy-min... ...he sort. Heaven did not seem to me worth going to. It was like a vacuum; a mythological elysium, an abode of shad- ows less real than the earth. I cou...

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...sjay Patterne, of the corps of the famous hard fighters, through an act of heroism of the unpretending cool sort which kindles British blood, on the p... ...ish your reverence. Young Willoughby made a kind of shock-head or football hero of his gallant distant cousin, and wondered occasionally that the fell... ...vulgar in figure, 10 The Egoist can be shuffled through by the aid of the heroical story humourously exaggerated in apology for his aspect. Noth- ing... ...s use- ful race of little princes, and Willoughby was as manly as any . He cultivated himself, he would not be outdone in popu- lar accomplishments. H... ...e thus—or it is better to say—an acquaintance with science facilitates the cultivation of aristocracy. Consequently a successful pursuit and a wrestin... ..., dearest, are too strong for transcription. I feel, pen in hand, like the mythological Titan at war with Jove, strong enough to hurl mountains, and f... ...ok like a victim decked for the sacrifice?—the garlanded heifer you see on Greek vases, in that array of jewellery?” “My dear Clara!” exclaimed the as... ...e flute-playing behind the scenes, imitating the nightingale, enraptured a Greek audience! He would have suspected a motive in Miss Dale’s eager atten... ...e me as much Latin as I could take. The fault is mine that it is little.” “Greek?” “A little Greek.” “Ah! And you carry it like a feather.” “Because i...

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...er the mur- der of the duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pavlovna, “he ever wa... .... If to some people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pavlovna, “he ever was a hero, after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and o... ...o, after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth.” Before Anna Pavlovna and the others had time to smile ... ...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... ...nding to the seven steps of Solomon’s temple, which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: 1. Discretion, the keeping of the... ...Y ou write that in Peters- burg he is spoken of as one of the most active, culti- vated, and capable of the young men. Forgive my vanity as a relation... ...n the very high- est circles were attempts made to keep in mind the diffi- culties of the actual position. Stories were whispered of how differently t... ...orward in an armchair, bending closely over the blonde lady and paying her mythological compliments with a smile that never left his face. Jauntily sh... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...

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...e had not two styles of talking at command: it is true that when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupu lous care, bu... ...high birth, descended, as it were, from unknown earls, dim as the crowd of heroic shades—who pleaded poverty, pared down prices, and cut jokes in the ... ...ning, early in the time of courtship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s daughters did to their father, without unde... ...life. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character, and to that end it were well to begin with a little readin... ...t historian would neglect a striking opportunity for pointing out that his heroes did not foresee the history of the world, or even their own actions?... ...ain, without any special object, save the vague pur pose of what he calls culture, preparation for he knows not what. He declines to choose a profess... ...ame sort of movement and mixture went on in old England as we find in older Herodotus, who also, in telling what had been, thought it well to take a wo... ...f me dial evidence—any glimmering of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the... ...py of himself; moreover, he had not yet succeeded in issuing copies of his mythological key; but he had always intended to acquit himself by marriage,...

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... allowance of conclusions, which has facilitated marriage under the diffi- culties of civilization. Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallne... ...e had not two styles of talking at command: it is true that when he used a Greek or 21 George Eliot Latin phrase he always gave the English with scru... ...high birth, descended, as it were, from unknown earls, dim as the crowd of heroic shades—who pleaded poverty, pared down prices, and cut jokes in the ... ...time of court- 57 George Eliot ship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s daughters did to their father, without unde... ...life. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character, and to that end it were well to begin with a little readin... ...again, without any special object, save the vague purpose of what he calls culture, preparation 73 George Eliot for he knows not what. He declines to... ... sort of movement and mixture went on in old En- gland as we find in older Herodotus, who also, in telling what had been, thought it well to take a wo... ... probably if Mrs. Lemon had undertaken to describe Juliet or Imogen, these heroines would not have seemed poetical. The first vision of Rosamond would... ...py of himself; moreover, he had not yet succeeded in issuing copies of his mythological key; but he had always intended to acquit himself by marriage,...