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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...hey will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when peo... ...istan might come out as best. If it is Catholic then the God-based Vatican City might come out on top. -- ―I see another problem. When a l... ...ompared the purchasing power of European countries, with the exception of Luxembourg, to the 50 states in the U.S., European countries would compare... ...es. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health care and furlough employees. ...

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...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...bly heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...nnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religious leaders seem to be climbing the same mountain from d... ...blame others. A few years ago an attorney, whose practice earned a half million dollars a year, lost over a million at the tables in Atlantic City a... ...tion.‖ --―That sounds so sensible. In the U.S. it seems that so often it is a matter of chance. For example, if we were to look at two inner city b... ... up there. And Costa Rica was 13 th on a major survey. What does this tells us? ―For one thing, more money doesn‘t make us happier. Luxemb...

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...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the sh...

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...imes, the only recreation-ground of the ladies and play-place of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not... ...eep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of ... ...nded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shad- ows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting befor... ... now playing at ball with Jamie when in comes a lay-brother, with a letter from Sir Patrick to say that he is coming the night to crave permission fro... ... face of north- ern nature, and it was hardly to be wondered at that young people, inheritors of the cultivated instincts of James I. and of the Plant... ... had been much with an admirable and saintly foreign lady, Esclairmonde de Luxembourg, who had taken refuge from the dissensions of her own vexed coun... ...nd their dignity, and drive them into some strange behaviour that the good people of Berwick would never forget. They rode in, however, very upright a... ...two kings, Henry and James, of her brother Malcolm, and of Esclairmonde de Luxembourg, now Sister Clare, whom they hoped soon to see in the sisterhood... ...cesses and the Prioress, and she ventured to inquire after Esclairmonde de Luxembourg, or, as she was now called, Sister Clare of St. Katharine’s. ‘I ...

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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ...d dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the T uileries and Luxembourg. Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the go... ...le reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel th... ... exactly the worst of all. I am waiting until you send him to speak at the Luxembourg, to laugh at my ease.” “My dear friend,” said Albert to Beaucham... ...en ourselves, that M. de Morcerf is one of the most assiduous peers at the Luxembourg, a general re- nowned for theory, but a most mediocre amateur of...

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...at the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...d. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Disc... ...f of filling the empty spaces on either side of the fireplace with benches from the antechamber, disregarding the baldness of their velvet covers whic... ...ld get out a word.” “And yet, my dear father,” said Simon Giguet, entering from the smaller salon, “you really must make that effort for me; for if th... ...ing the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold possession of the estate of Gondreville. [See “ An... ...arles Keller,—a par- liamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election. When Simon Giguet sounded the old notary Gre... ...the Comte de Gondreville, then senator, and formerly representative of the people, who had despoiled the Cinq-Cygne family of their property. [See “An... ...ival in Paris go at eight in the morning punctu- ally to the garden of the Luxembourg, Allee de l’Observatoire, fourth bench to the right, starting fr... ...in a pleasant little house in the rue de l’Ouest, behind the garden of the Luxembourg, one of the most retired quarters of Paris. We were received in ... ...re meeting after an absence of two years; after which they started for the Luxembourg, where in those days the Horticultural Society held its exhibiti...

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...antinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-century. From such grades of certainty as this, one may come down the scale until th... ...ter a num- ber of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books. From first to last he has been writing for twenty years, so that it is poss... ...tes are too short; he foretold, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is stil... ..., and how will it affect our ways of living?” It is a question of “How are people going to take these obvi- ous things—waste of the world’s resources,... ...rstanding and overcoming of the difficulties involved. There are many more people, and there is much more intel- ligence concentrated upon the manufac... ...Peace Move- ment is quite amateurish. It is so amateurish that the bulk of people do not even realise the very first implication of the peace of the w... ...ng recuperation, in man power by converting herself into another Salt Lake City. But I do not think that Germany, in the face of the economic ring tha... ... fiscal frontier would run from it southward to include the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, with its French sympathies and traditions, in the permanent all... ...nion, but to speculate upon the opinion of France. After the experience of Luxembourg and Belgium no one now dreams of a neutralised buffer State. Wha...

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...pt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of...

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...6, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to... ...s on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the... ...ll strewn with the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. When we contemplate from that quay so many commemorating scenes, when the soul has grasped the ... ...not accepted. In the first place, his former career seemed to these worthy people profoundly immoral; then, during this very year, he had made still f... ...f the trees; it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one day to give a... ...he remoteness of a memory. He asked himself, “Shall I to-morrow find those people there?” III THE HOUSE OF MONGENOD THE NEXT DAY, as Godefroid rose am... ...fore, till they reached the middle of the great alley of the garden of the Luxembourg that Monsieur Bernard came up to the young man. “Pardon me, mons... ...from the cloister of the Chartreux which leads from the great alley of the Luxembourg to the rue d’Enfer. “Did you never, in your public functions, ob... ...ablishment.” “It is one of the finest in Paris, monsieur. I exhibit at the Luxembourg. My garden, which covers three acres, is on the boulevard, behin...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them. Things written either live or die; unless it be for a pla... ...those little particles, those mere atomies, might multiply and devastate a city! Wonderful!” He stood up, and releasing the glass slip from the micro-... ...and terrible, death full of pain and indignity—would be released upon this city, and go hither and thither seeking his victims. Here he would take the... ... his Gladstone bag was of good pleasant leather with labels reminiscent of Luxembourg and Ostend, and his boots, though brown, were not vulgar. He car...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...s at Paris. ‘Arrestment at home’ threatens to become ‘Con- finement in the Luxembourg;’ to end: where? For example, what pale-visaged thin man is this... ...ity. ’ Two hundred and fifty Forges shall, in these days, be set up in the Luxembourg Garden, and round the outer wall of the Tuileries; to make gun-b... ...rance. There, in their two hun- dred and fifty shed-smithies, in Garden of Luxembourg or Tuileries, let them forge gun-barrels, in sight of Heaven and...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...ose they are French?” He surveyed the country again. “Might be Holland. Or Luxembourg. Or Lorraine ‘s far as _I_ know. Wonder what those big affairs o... ...ne with her consorts, and nipped in between the Susquehanna and the Kansas City. They discovered her proximity, dropped back until she was nearly broa... ...NE O NE O NE O NE O NEW W W W W Y Y Y Y YORK ORK ORK ORK ORK 1 1 1 1 1 THE CITY OF NEW YORK was in the year of the German at- tack the largest, riches...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...s squire. The King’s army was formed at the camp of Gevries; that of M. de Luxembourg almost joined it: The ladies were at Mons, two leagues dis- tant... ...ver been seen. The two armies were ranged in two lines, the right of M. de Luxembourg’s touching the left of the King’s,—the whole extending over thre... ...ages of the Court and the army. The state of the roads deprived the Duc de Luxembourg of the use of waggons and other vehicles. His army was perishing... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...gust nephew poor Monsieur, at Paris has dived deep into his cellars of the Luxembourg for shelter; and according to Montgaillard can hardly be persuad... ...llard can hardly be persuaded up again. Screeching multitudes environ that Luxembourg of his: drawn thither by report of his departure: but, at sight ... ...etires about midnight ‘to three little rooms on the upper floor;’ till the Luxembourg be prepared for him, and ‘the safeguard of the Nation. ’ Safer i...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ...om the Franciscans silenced—of his kindred. Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundre... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...y enthusiasm. Barnet says, ‘We talked of Them. They are sending us up into Luxembourg. They are going to turn the Central Euro- pean right.’ Behind th... ...net and his company were industriously entrenching themselves in Bel- gian Luxembourg. He tells of the mobilisation and of his summer day’s journey th...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ...now this really was the case, and therefore I avow it. I remember Madam de Luxembourg told me one day in raillery, of a man who used to leave his mist... ...otten a hundred times. Every morning at ten o’clock, I went to walk in the Luxembourg with a Virgil and a Rousseau in my pocket, and there, until the ... ...l St. Quentin; which, in a solitary part of the town, and not far from the Luxembourg, was more proper for my purpose than noisy Rue St. Honor. There ...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ... body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing. “ Was it... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... ...ften sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted alwa... ...the magnifi- cent, yet so graceful, vista. He came to the gar- dens of the Luxembourg: children were playing, nurses with long ribbons walked slowly t... ...dressed like those fine fellows whom Philip had seen that afternoon in the Luxembourg. He had a handsome face, thin, ascetic, with dark eyes; he wore ... ... the way. He began to talk of the Olympia by Manet, which then hung in the Luxembourg. “I stood in front of it for an hour today , and I tell you it’s...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...se terms the use of the kitchen fire. What most annoyed him in the Eternal City was the number of French- men he met, who all saluted him in his nativ... ...to show a conspiracy of destiny against the glory and pre-eminence of that city, affording at the same time a novel and extraordi- nary proof of its d... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...ry out of Le Capitaine Martin du Bellay, who affirms, that in the march to Luxembourg he saw so great frost, that the munition-wine was cut with hatch...

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...his beer—very flat and stale by this time—and tak- ing down his concertina from the bookcase, where in week days it kept the company of seven volumes ... ... the necessary books, but he was too hopelessly stupid to get much benefit from them. Then one day at San Francisco had come the news of his mother’s ... ... money—not much, but enough to set him up in business; so he had cut loose from the charlatan and had opened his “Dental Par- lors” on Polk Street, an... ...the difference. Nearly all the stores were closed. No wagons passed. A few people hurried up and down the sidewalks, dressed in cheap Sunday finery. A... ...e father, a young man, and a young girl, and three children. The two older people held 9 Frank Norris empty lunch baskets in their laps, while the ba... ...ic,” he explained as he sat down on the bed-lounge, “with my uncle and his people—the Sieppes, you know. By damn! it was hot,” he suddenly vociferated... ...once more, and’”—here a rolling explosion of oaths—”’you’ll go back to the city in the Morgue wagon. Ain’t I got a right to cross a street even, I’d l... ... society; things of iron and cloth and wood; all the detritus that a great city sloughs off in its daily life. Zerkow’s junk shop was the last abiding... ...acquainted. Then the evening was concluded by a four-cornered party in the Luxembourg, a quiet German restaurant under a the- atre. Trina had a tamale...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ... submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the d... ...ous alley and a soiled road of commerce, disputed like the dirty land of a city every inch of it. The air they claimed too, shared it up, parcelled it... .... ‘Here we are,’ said Birkin. And on her side she saw: ‘Elsass— Lothringen—Luxembourg, Metz—Basle.’ ‘That was it, Basle!’ The porter came up. ‘ A Bale... ...at should be their own world! The Belgians left, the train ran on, through Luxembourg, through Alsace-Lorraine, through Metz. But she was blind, she c...