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Page viii
But the third and the fourth ended, and with constant increase of the
unimaginable horrors and follies, there came signs that the very excess of them
may prevent their renewal in the future. My first sketch of the epilogue concluded
with the ...
But the third and the fourth ended, and with constant increase of the
unimaginable horrors and follies, there came signs that the very excess of them
may prevent their renewal in the future. My first sketch of the epilogue concluded
with the ...
Page xvi
This " (said my friends or seemed to be saying), " this is how we feel towards this
war in which we participate with horror but with deliberate choice. And you, in this
shallow satire of yours, represent this struggle between Good and Evil, this trial ...
This " (said my friends or seemed to be saying), " this is how we feel towards this
war in which we participate with horror but with deliberate choice. And you, in this
shallow satire of yours, represent this struggle between Good and Evil, this trial ...
Page xxii
Or rather : looking in dismay and anger for a cause of the horror which is befalling
them, they cannot but seek that cause, and therefore find it, in the adversary
against whom they must sacrifice everything in supreme self-defence. Add to this
...
Or rather : looking in dismay and anger for a cause of the horror which is befalling
them, they cannot but seek that cause, and therefore find it, in the adversary
against whom they must sacrifice everything in supreme self-defence. Add to this
...
Page xxvii
... other feelings less avowable but quite as natural : the hankering after imitating
others, but also after being imitated, and having one's own decisions justified by
one's neighbours ; the horror as of the void, of feeling isolated, out in the cold.
... other feelings less avowable but quite as natural : the hankering after imitating
others, but also after being imitated, and having one's own decisions justified by
one's neighbours ; the horror as of the void, of feeling isolated, out in the cold.
Page xxxii
And any individual attempt to examine, to analyse, to appraise it for good and evil
, becomes a sacrilegious outrage from which we shrink with the taboo-horror
inherited from our own infancy and from that of our race. What self-respecting
man ...
And any individual attempt to examine, to analyse, to appraise it for good and evil
, becomes a sacrilegious outrage from which we shrink with the taboo-horror
inherited from our own infancy and from that of our race. What self-respecting
man ...
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Page 276 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page xx - Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: For thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Page 53 - Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Page 163 - The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic gods is, for the most part, not the result of using the imagination with special vigour. It is the result of not doing so. The wind is obviously alive ; any fool can see that. Being alive, it blows ; how ? why, naturally ; just as you and I blow. It knocks things down, it shouts and dances, it whispers and talks.
Page 209 - Vieux soldats de plomb que nous sommes, Au cordeau nous alignant tous , Si des rangs sortent quelques hommes , • Tous nous crions : A bas les fous ! On les persécute, on les tue ; Sauf, après un lent examen , A leur dresser une statue , Pour la gloire du genre humain.
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Page xx - And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Page 57 - Do you see the Labour Leader? The other papers all refused to take Vernon Lee's and Bertrand Russell's articles.' ' SATAN (bows benignly towards DEATH). You might have trusted Satan, dear Ballet Master Death! Pity and Indignation can renew Death's Dance when all Nations have danced themselves to stumps, and the ordinary band, save perhaps Widow Fear and her children, can fiddle and blow no longer.
Page 56 - Even before either of that immortal pair had uttered a sound, the flagging Dancers. the bleeding Nations. weary of that stage slippery with blood and entrails. felt the wind of the wings of Pity and Indignation: and. in its pure breath. suddenly revived. The holy pair required no instruments. Pity merely sobbed. and her sobs were like the welling-up notes of many harps. drowning the soul in tender madness. But Indignation hissed and roared like a burning granary when the sparks crackle as they fly...
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| Title | Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
| Author | Vernon Lee |
| Publisher | John Lane, 1920 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 298 pages |
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