Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later: Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son |
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Page 167 - My name is Norval: on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Page 138 - and let die as his fathers before him." He argued that as we had a right to pester people till we got ourselves born, so also we have a right to pester them for extension of life beyond the grave. Life, whether before the grave or afterwards, is like love- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Page 159 - S. MICHAEL He contended with the Devil about the body of Moses. Now, I do not believe that any reasonable person would contend about the body of Moses with the Devil or with any one else. ONE FORM OF FAILURE From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Page 88 - There was Dr. Downie, Professor of Logomachy, and perhaps the most subtle dialectician in Erewhon. He could say nothing in more words than any man of his generation. His text-book on the Art of Obscuring Issues had passed through ten or twelve editions, and was in the hands of all aspirants for academic distinction. He had earned a high reputation for sobriety of judgment by resolutely refusing to have definite views on any subject: so safe a man was he considered, that while still quite young he...
Page 122 - no I not that. Have you any red mullets ? ' And the angel will say, ' Why no, sir, the gulf has been so rough that there has hardly any fish come in this three days, and there has been such a run on it that we have nothing left but plaice.' " ' Well, well,' I shall say, ' have you any kidneys ? ' " ' You can have one kidney, sir,' will be the answer. " ' One kidney, indeed, and you call this heaven ! At any rate you will have sausages ? ' " ' Then the angel will say, ' We shall have some after Sunday,...
Page 279 - Our religion sets before us an ideal which we all cordially accept, but it also tells us of marvels like your chariot and horses, which we most of us reject. Our best teachers insist on the ideal, and keep the marvels in the background. If they could say outright that our age has outgrown them, they would say so, but this they may not do ; nevertheless they contrive to let their opinions be sufficiently well known, and their hearers are content with this. " We have others who take a very different...
Page 137 - Faith does not consist, as some have falsely urged, in believing things on insufficient evidence; this is not faith, but faithlessness to all that we should hold most faithfully. Faith consists in holding that the instincts of the best men and women are in themselves an evidence which may not be set aside lightly...
Page 169 - At all — she was smuggled into the car of the balloon nlong with sundry rugs, under which she lay concealed till the balloon had left the earth. All this went for nothing. It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerate* their existence.
Page 116 - expect your child to learn those petty arts of deception without which she must fall an easy prey to any one who wishes to deceive her ? How can she detect lying in other people unless she has had some experience of it in her own practice ? " The importance of teaching children to lie early by punishing them when found out is then impressed on the parent, and George Washington's words,