The Man Higher Up: A Story of the Fight, which is Life and the Force, which is LoveBobbs-Merrill Company, 1910 - 402 pages |
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Page 253 - We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show...
Page 253 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 340 - Why is it that we can not rest? Why have we nothing? Whither has it gone— that which we have created ?' "Whither had it gone? He knew the answer. It gloomed solemnly down at him from million-dollar palaces, honked hoarsely through the streets from costly imported automobiles, flashed brilliantly from the bejeweled fingers of wife and courtesan, kept gleaming necks and shoulders warm in the face of shivering poverty, gurgled in goblets of precious vintages, raced panting under the wire. Above all,...
Page 224 - And the devil took him up into a high mountain, and showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them in a moment of time.
Page 125 - Stuart, and promptly marched back to the graveyard. The Sixth stood by Bob loyally, all the tough wards gave enormous majorities for his candidate. But? so far as the immediate contest was concerned, in vain. When the returns were counted, Stuart was defeated by less than two thousand majority. "The people are victorious !" screamed MacPherson's newspaper.
Page 340 - He knew of other thousands, sturdy, brave men who worked continuously and thought of death with anguish, knowing that their taking away meant starvation to wives and babes ; for to those who labor the hardest our "prosperity" brings no surplus. He knew of the great "common...
Page 244 - the socialism of Christ when He commanded 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' " "Your Force is as inexorable as God !" "The Force is God,
Page 338 - Haggin, in his rough way, told him of the sorrow they had shown for his sickness, Bob felt his heart suddenly expand in a deep, strong affection for them. They were his people ! — his, not because his machine had whipped them into submission, but because he, though unworthy, lived in their hearts. He knew...
Page 121 - Come," MacPherson laughed unpleasantly, "you and I know he owns us all." Bob looked MacPherson steadily in the eyes. "I have no doubt," he said harshly, "that Sackett owns you, Mack, body and soul.
Page 243 - Force that makes the man, the social unit, find his happiness, his welfare, in the happiness and welfare of his brethren, of society.