...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ..." at low energies. But otherwise SM is one of the more successful theories in the history of physics. It renormalized QFT and, thus, re-defined ma... ...ing counterintuitive and even "counterfactual' variants of space and time. Another Scottish philosopher, Alexander Bains, observed, in the 19th cen... ...could be the rule, rather than the exception. Nature may, indeed, be intelligent. Jewish mysticism believes that humans have a major role to play:... ...ich are merely the manifestations of God's attributes (this is also the Muslim and Jewish points of view). And because the Laws of Nature and its C...

...candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a histori... ...shmole, and the more early authorities; but my first acquaintance with the history was through the more pleasing medium of verse. There is a period in... ...nd thickly painted with religious devices, and scenes taken from Scripture history, by no means admitted light in proportion to their size, and what d... ..., that I will willingly make a counsellor of thee, and tell thee the whole history, the rather that I have a favour to ask when my tale is ended.” “Go... ...et let him take care of me. I fly him now, as heretofore; but if, like the Scottish wild cattle, I am vexed by frequent pursuit, I may turn on him in ... ...est secrets; if I have acquired the most secret signs and passwords of the Jewish Cabala, so that the greyest beard in the synagogue would brush the s...

...wever, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be f...

...x- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every phi... ...nal ven- geance which overtook it was complete and tearful beyond all that history has recorded. 10 Memorials, and Other Papers arrived at the power ... ...nd not meaning to offer itself for anything else, had been read as genuine history. Here, on the other hand, the adventures of the Span- 14 Memorials... ...n, who, again, is himself miserably superficial in his analysis of English history. Hence the feeble credulity which Dr. Johnson showed with respect t... ..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near... ... that is, a born gentleman, speaks of bankers as we in England should of a Jewish usurer, or tricking money- changer. The liberal trades, such as thos... ...that God should vindicate by some memorable interference, since of all the Jewish institutions it was that one which only and which frequently became ...

...old!” All at once marble takes an animal shape, the dead come to life, the history of the world is laid open before you. After countless dynasties of ... ...chin of this fantastical appearance, and gave him the look of one of those Jewish types which serve artists as models for Moses. His lips were so thin... ...ench centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or... ...ummon before me whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never ... ...ocked down. “What is all this about?” “Come along, and I will tell you the history of it as we go.” By fair means or foul, Raphael must go along with ...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . . . . . . .... ...e or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravit... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philoso phies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ...nnot the dullest hear Steam engines clanking around him? Has he not seen the Scottish Brass smith’s I DEA (and this but a mechanical one) travelling o... ...whom Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summ... ...nspotted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a w... ...e Fire balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this... ...tone! “Still more touching was it when, turning the corner of a lane, in the Scottish Town of Edinburgh, I came upon a Signpost, whereon stood written... ...O HAVE we endeavored, from the enormous, amorphous Plum pudding, more like a Scottish Haggis, which Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh had kneaded for his fellow m...

...t might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more ...

...R VIII? CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE, 110 -- CHAPTER IX? THE EVERLASTING YEA, 118 -- CHAPTER X? PAUSE, 126 -- BOOK III 133 -- CHAPTER I ?INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY, 133 -- CHAPTER II ?CHURCH-CLOTHES, 137...