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Page 161 - it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than it is for a camel to
Page 143 - there wanted no preparations or goodly furniture, with viands of the finest sort that could be gotten for money or friendship.
Page 171 - This is pre-eminently the age of mind, as the past century was the age of matter. So far as we know, electricity is the soul of visible form. What we call brainwaves have an analogy
Page 172 - some stereotyped belief. But the most wonderful fact of the present is that we are being ruled by the seeming impossible. Some of the most successful inventors of the present day would have passed for madmen twenty years ago. The so-called dreamers are now the men of action; they
Page 147 - some fighting with swords, some with guns and cross-bows, some vaulting and leaping, some dancing with ladies,
Page 71 - There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.'
Page 147 - that many of the Frenchmen were "fain to be led to their beds.
Page 177 - the thinkers of to-day are as far removed from the thinkers of 1870 as electricity is from steam. We know steam to be a crude and clumsy thing compared with electricity, and to-morrow we shall awake to the fact that mind is just as superior to the crude electric current.
Page 117 - motion by Rousseau still continue. He did what French poetry failed to do because of the bondage placed upon it by logical form and the restrictions of Latin art. He turned on the faucets of inspiration, and let the musical waves descend from a mountain of emotional rhythm which inundated two continents,
Page 171 - consider for a moment the possibility of a mind gifted in this way setting to work to discover the secrets of some great chemical business or political intrigue. We are at the beginning of a cycle of invisible forces; the coming age will be one of invisible action. The submarine torpedo-boat typifies the development of the century.