intricate long-distance

"Bess Sheppard" <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:40:51 +0900
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Chill penury repressed their noble rage and frozethe genial current of the soul. I mean of course the idea of Reincarnation. China is a society that has really chosen to believe in intellect.
In that sense it does confess, or rather boast, that all argumentis an argument in a circle. I mean of course the idea of Reincarnation. It is true, and even tautological,to say that the cross is the crux of the whole matter. They are too inhuman even to be indecent. I fancy the garden of the witch has beenkept much more carefully than the woodland of the nymph.
It was not only because therewas something a little frivolous about the mythology. They are only different because one is real and the other is not. They are refined and intelligent enough to indulge sometimesin a self-conscious diabolism.
It has taken intellect seriously; and it may be that it stands alonein the world. But he very seldom thought of pitting his nature of the godsagainst the gods of nature.
This is the meaning of most of the cannibalism in the world. It is by no means clear, so far as I know, that the Eskimos everindulged in human sacrifice.
It has a great deal to do withthis rather elusive question of the function of the philosopher.
I was the only person present who had neglected to providehimself with a fetish.
It is very easy in bothcases to represent that hatred as something merely hateful.
The gods of mere mythology had a great deal of nonsense about them. But after all there is something more absolute about abdication. It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying,Why cannot these things be? It has nothingto do with seeing God or even conjuring up the devil. In their dealings with their god Moloch,they themselves were always careful to deliver the goods.
But we all know that this didnot mean that all pagan men thought of nothing but pagan gods. It was emphatically that we should leave off wanting it.
The civilisation that centered in Tyre and Sidon was aboveall things practical.
The hereticPharaoh had a philosophy more earnest and perhaps more humble. It is necessary to insist on this abstraction in the first studentof abstractions.
They are refined and intelligent enough to indulge sometimesin a self-conscious diabolism.
They scarcely reach sanity till they reach sanctity.

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