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...The carriages rolling by insulted him with their display of wealth. He had democratic sentiments regarding them. Oh for a horse upon the boundless pla... ...n, or of widows, that Edward’s experience had not yet come across. All the parties immedi- ately concerned were apparently so desperately acquiescing ... ...oved in their man- ners, and show you they are determined to belong to the social march in an age of universal progress. Nothing can be more comfortin... ...ad been wronged—perhaps think that he ought to have been met. There is the democratic virus secret in every woman; it was predominant in Mrs. Lovell, ... ...he library. All the other rooms—enter ‘em, and if ‘taint like a sort of, a social sepulchre! Dashed if he can get his son to live with him; though the... ...sly in a young man: whether they will not give such manifestation of their social habits as two robins shut in a cage will do: of which pretty birds o... ...hich she contrasted against Edward Blancove’s evil ones; and it was with a democratic fervour of contempt that she dismissed the superior dutward attr... ...lived to reflect on her having decided practically, perhaps wisely for all parties. Her debts expunged, she became an old gentleman’s demure young wif...

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...a gratuitous Coriolanus haughtiness as well, new among a people accustomed socially to bow the head to their nobles, and not, of late, expecting a kic... ...sted savour. They enjoyed the pecu- liar novel relish of it, coming from a social pressman and a dame of high society. The different hemispheres becam... ...eral a great man. He now regarded him as a mere soldier, a soured veteran; socially as a masker and a trifler, virtually a callous angler playing his ... ... of 130 Lord Ormont and His Aminta Ormont which so violently offended the democratic aristo- crat, and caused her to resent it as an assault on the f... ...ed. Aminta simply ob- served that it would cause less inconvenience to all parties. A suspicion of her aunt’s proceedings was confirmed by the good wo...

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...k, urged or guided them forward, distressed, pre- occupied, adjuring their parties to keep together; in their white-gloved fingers they held their tic... ... audience, suddenly remembering hats and wraps, bestirred itself, and many parties were already upon their feet and filing out at the time the curtain... ..., or kept his head more surely than the same young fellow who confused his social engagements for the evening of the same day. The Landry Court the De... ...ndings had been to Laura an unbroken series of little delights. For formal social distractions she had but little taste. She left those to Page, who, ... ...ed in a bewilder- ing round of teas, “dancing clubs,” dinners, and theatre parties. Mrs. Wessels was her chaperone, and the little middle-aged lady fo... ...painting, or flowers, or more rarely—for she had not the least interest in social affairs—to teas or receptions. But in the evenings, after dinner, sh... ...e was not a trace of the snob about Charles Cressler. No one could be more democratic. But at the same time, as this interview proceeded, he could not... ...er,” addicted to actresses, suppers, and to bath- ing in champagne. In the Democratic press he was assailed as little better than a thief, vituperated...

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...tch at epithets, and any low contention of this kind obscured for them the social summit they hoped to attain; the dream whereof was their prime nouri... ... common shot that exploded a magazine; and for a time it quite upset their social policy, causing them to act like simple young ladies who feel things... ...ngs and the Fine Shades play a principal part in our human development and social history. I dare not say that civilized man is to be studied with the... ...d: “though,” as she said to Arabella, “you must know I abomi- nate musical parties, and think them the most absurd of en- tertainments possible; but i... ...red, clenching her little hands. The patriotic melody, delivered in sturdy democratic fash- ion, had to be endured. It died hard, but did come to an e... ...ing divine in the idea of a teacher. I listen to Sir T . on Parliament and parties, and chide myself if my interest flags. His algebra-puzzles, or Euc... ...’s leaving the room meant. I suppose the hotel people are used to yachting-parties.” And then, not seeing any friendly demonstration on his part, she ...

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...s man going. He may live on for many generations inside the shelter of the social establishment which he has erected for himself, as pear-trees and cu... ...y as well live. And so he applied himself to his own tiny sec- tion of the social work, and to doing the best for his family, and to leaving the rest ... ...essful barrister, also littérateur of high repute, a rich man, and a great social suc- cess. At the centre he felt himself neuter, nothing. Isabel kne... ...k began. Nothing more was said for the time being. As the week went on all parties became more comfortable. Joe remained silent, averted, neutral, a l... ...ere,’ said Matilda. ‘Is it any different in Canada?’ asked Emmie. ‘Oh, yes—democratic,’ replied Matilda, ‘He thinks they’re all on a level over there....

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...lving numerous but a fi- nite number of units, has also to be abandoned in social sci- ence. We cannot put Humanity into a museum or dry it for examin... ... We have to realize that these things are as foolish and ill-bred and anti-social as shout- ing in conversation or making puns; and we have to work ou... ...curiosity come those desires and motives that one shares perhaps with some social beasts, but far more so as a conscious thing with men alone. These d... ...r conversion we did this darkly and with our hate spreading to persons and parties from the things for which they stood. But the believer will hate lo... ...radiction that in Great Britain and Western Europe gener- ally, just those parties that stand most distinctly for personal devotion to the State in ec... ...l devotion to the State in economic matters, the Socialist and Socialistic parties, are most opposed to the idea of military 99 H. G . Wells service,... ...mon Man has worked and is working infinite mischief. In politics the crude democratic faith leads directly to the submission of every question, howeve... ... These two ideas, firstly the pupil-teacher parental idea and secondly the democratic idea (that is to say the idea of an equal ultimate significance)...

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...at book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, ... ...tate and solve. In Mankind in the Making, therefore, I tried to review the social organisation in a different way, to con- sider it as an educational ... ...ack to imaginative writing again. In its two predecessors the treatment of social organisation had been purely objective; here my intention has been a... ...merges upon a sort of effectual conclusion to those controversies. The two parties have so chipped and amended each other’s initial propositions that,... ...ire, or otherwise alienated them from his intimate self. A thorough-going, Democratic Socialist will 61 H G Wells no doubt be inclined at first to ob... ...ge. It must occur only under certain obvious conditions, the contract- ing parties must be in health and condition, free from spe- cific transmissible... ...least one-and-twenty; the man twenty-six or twenty-seven. One imagines the parties to a projected marriage first ob- taining licenses which will testi... ...a. I am inclined to imagine farming done by tenant associations, by little democratic unlimited liability companies working 135 H G Wells under elect... ...n odd little election is in progress. This is the selection, upon strictly democratic lines, with a suffrage that includes every permanent resident in...

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...ire admission of the same to the full privileges, political, religious and social, of manhood, requires power- ful effort on the part of the enthralle... ...quality to their white fellow citizens, in civil, religious, political and social rank, but they have also illustrated and adorned our common country ... ...tish and Irish audiences in public, and the refinement and elegance of the social circles in which he mingled, not only as an equal, but as a recogniz... ...e United States, even while organs of, and when supported by, anti-slavery parties, have, with a single exception, failed to pay expenses. Mr. Douglas... ...norable con- tinuance of the race. Marriage as imposing obligations on the parties to it—has no existence here, except in such hearts as are purer and... ...oceeded from it; and, on going a little in that direction, I came upon the parties engaged in the skirmish. Mr. Siever, the overseer, had hold of Nell... ... increase their stock of knowledge, to seek pleasure, to have their rough, democratic manners softened by contact with English aristocratic re- fineme... ...d I have crossed three thousand miles of the peril- ous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the ... ...ing with the lord mayor of Dublin. What a pity there was not some American democratic Christian at the door of his splendid mansion, to bark out at my...

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...g in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded letter- ing, the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omn... ... pretty young girls, dressed as if for a fete champetre, swaying to and fro in rocking chairs, fanning themselves with large straw fans, and enjoying ... ...e level tops intervened in lawnlike smoothness, it formed a charming complement to the drawing room. As such it was in course of use at the present mo... ...like that of her companion, was irritable. He, however, was also making up his mind that she was uncommonly pretty. “I daresay it’s very gay here, tha... ...t the Butterworths’. You have heard, at least, of the Butterworths. Bien. They did everything in the world for him—they turned themselves inside out. ... ...effecting a visit to the Tower of London. Suddenly it seemed as if the problem might be solved; the two ladies at Jones’s Hotel received a visit from ... .... Westgate. “All the women were decolletes, and many of the figures looked as if they could speak if they tried.” “Upon my word,” Lord Lambeth rejoine...

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...ntroversy he had got into with certain victorious Parliamentary offi- cial parties, while his own party lay vanquished, during what was called the Orm... ...der the warmth of increasing revenue and suc- cess, miscellaneous cheerful socialities and abundant specu- lations, chiefly political (and not John’s ... ...r intentions on either side. Nor, with all the Coleridge fermentation, was democratic Radicalism by any means given up;—though how it was to live if t... ...ng the outer sur- face of things without quite penetrating into the heart, democratic Liberalism, revolt against superstition and oppression, and help... ...terlings, among others, he had made acquaintance; became famil- iar in the social circle at South Place, and was much es- teemed there. With Madam Tor... ...to take up of this relation: and in the lodgings in Regent Street, and the democratico- literary element there, Torrijos became a very prominent, and ... ...ts. I have heard, it was then worth some ten thousand pounds a year to the parties interested. Anthony Sterling, John, and another a cousin of theirs ... ... all sail towards Malaga; and, on shore, all manner of troops and detached parties were in motion, to render a retreat to Gibraltar by land impossible... ...ke a charge of Cossacks, on occasion: but it was also eminently ingenious, social, guileless. We did all very well together: and Sterling and I walked...

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...ted, and even insusceptible of perfect union. It is in fact no vinculum of social organiza- tion which held them together, but the ideal vinculum of a... ...e been otherwise amongst a people who tried every thing by the standard of social value; never seeking for a canon of excel- lence, in man considered ... ...ut always and exclu- sively in man as a gregarious being, and designed for social uses and functions. Not man in his own peculiar nature, but man in h... ...autocracy. Even in the most prosper- ous days of the Roman State, when the democratic forces balanced, and were balanced by, those of the aristocracy,... ...ans he evaded a ceremonial of public honor which was burdensome to all the parties concerned in it. Sometimes, however, we find that men, careless of ... ...rdict, by the appearance in court of any great man on behalf of one of the parties interested: nor was such an interference with the course of private... ...espect which he might think proper to pay, must have been im- puted by all parties to the lingering superstitions of custom, to involuntary habit, to ... ...omises, *V ery remarkable it is, and a fact which speaks volumes as to the democratic constitution of the Roman army, in the midst of that aristocracy... ...tative office, which, as occasions arose, would have given some opening to democratic influences. But the consular office he left un- touched; because...

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...o come first and above all things else in your heart? In time past you put social success, yourself, heaven knows what, before him; now it is God, it ... ...er for reflection to those who are fain to observe or describe the various social zones; and pos- sibly an enquiry into the causes that bring about th... ...mmon- wealth, unless, indeed, experience is as meaningless for po- litical parties as it is for youth. In every age the great nobles, and the rich who... ...nded by this statement. An aristocracy is in a manner the intellect of the social system, as the middle classes and the proletariat may be said to be ... ..., and a consistency in 35 Balzac political and private life for which all parties involuntarily respected them. But, unfortunately, as so often happe... ...fended to admiration. Few women venture to be democrats; the at- titude of democratic champion is scarcely compatible with tyrannous feminine sway. Bu...

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...the city ways for various public services. Light and so forth.” “W as it a social trouble—that—in the great roadway place? How are you governed? Have ... ...“Several?” “About fourteen.” “I don’t understand.” “Very probably not. Our social order will probably seem very complex to you. To tell you the truth,... ...st understand,” began Howard abruptly, avoid- ing Graham’s eyes, “that our social order is very complex. A half explanation, a bare unqualified statem... ...e now. He was in some way the owner of half the world, and great political parties were fighting to possess him. On the one hand was the White Council... ...he cried. “I do not understand!” He had slipped out between the contending parties into this liberty of the twilight. What would happen next? What was... ...ght by capable rich men. Socialistic and Popu- lar, Reactionary and Purity Parties were all at last mere Stock Exchange counters, selling their princi... ...rol them?” The Surveyor-General did, “entirely.” Now, Graham, in his later democratic days, had taken a keen interest in these and his questioning qui... ...has been full of surprises to me. In the old days we dreamt of a wonderful democratic life, of a time when all men would be equal and happy.” Ostrog l... ...hopes been vain?” “What do you mean?” said Ostrog. “Hopes?” “I came from a democratic age. And I find an aristocratic tyranny!” “Well,—but you are the...

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...ar. But its own class did not ordinarily occupy that position in regard to social influence which could en- able them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge... ...en- able them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge of a writer. A reader whose social standing is moderate may communicate his views upon a book or a writ... ...ion, would fill him with twofold astonishment, as interpreting equally the social valuation of the English merchant, and also the social valuation of ... ...oon. Stones were the implements of warfare; and by continual practice both parties became expert in throwing them. The origin of the feud it is scarce... ... in my brother’s code of morals, that, supposing a contest between any two parties, of which one possessed an article, whilst the other was better abl... ...y con- demned as mad; and the general pursuit commenced, which brought all parties (hunters and game) sweeping so wildly past the quiet grounds of Gre... ...t often the most aristocratic, yet also, for many noble purposes, the most democratic of lands. 2 Five years ago, during the carnival of universal an... ... an unfortunate reserve of manner. Whilst, on the contrary, Mr. Fox, ultra democratic in his principles and frank in his address, was repulsively aris...

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...ns had the im- mense advantage of enabling one (with a playful allusion to democratic principles) to scramble into the first Brown con- veyance in the... ...eton. He meant her (thanks to his enlightening companionship) to develop a social tact and readiness of wit enabling her to hold her own with the most... ...regrettable in the Beaufort past. Mrs. Archer, who was fond of coining her social philosophy into axioms, had once said: “We all have our pet common p... ...r thoughts, he simply replied: “Oh, well, there’s always a phase of family parties to be gone through when one gets engaged, and the sooner it’s over ... ...eature whose soul’s custodian he was to be. That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothi... ...to give her a friendly warning about allowing the Duke to carry her off to parties with him. I don’t know if you’ve heard—” Mrs. Archer produced an in... ...Archer produced an indulgent smile. “Has the Duke been carrying her off to parties?” 64 The Age of Innocence “Y ou know what these English grandees a...

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...by an equal respect for that of others; she had steered too long among the social reefs and shoals not to know how narrow is the passage that leads to... ...rcy of the influences from which she thought she had escaped. In the queer social whirligig from which she had so lately fled, it seemed natural enoug... ...assions, her artless mix- 84 The Glimpses of the Moon ture of amorous and social interests, was a woman with a pur- pose, a creature who fulfilled he... ...r herself continuing there the life of heavy county responsibilities, dull parties, laborious duties, weekly church- going, and presiding over local c... ...ons; and neither, after a time, could Mr. Hicks, who found the Prince more democratic than anyone he had ever known at Apex City, and was immensely in... ...rs—had smilingly hinted that their Serene Highnesses, though so thoroughly democratic and unceremonious, were yet accustomed to inspecting in advance ... ...the 134 The Glimpses of the Moon plea that the Princess Mother liked cosy parties and begged her hosts that there should never be more than thirty at... ...eminding her, when she “seated” her din- 160 The Glimpses of the Moon ner-parties, that Dukes ranked higher than Princes. No—the job was decidedly in...

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...destruction of the Self. So on we go, active in science and mechanics, and social reform. But we have exhausted ourselves in the process. We have foun... ...e male spirit, which would subdue the immediate flesh to some conscious or social pur- pose, is overthrown. The woman in her maternity is the law- giv... ...pirit from the self, the reaction from the great aristocratic to the great democratic principle. An ordinary instinctive man, in Hamlet’s position, wo... ...h only the looser women go, with these reckless young men. He also gets up parties of pleasure, and is chiefly responsible for the coming of the playe... ...orce public opinion. Be- tween the clerical party and the radicals and the socialists, what canons were left that were absolute? Besides, these wild v... ...hould any one stay there! I went on up the pass itself. There were various parties of visitors on the roads and tracks, people from towns incon- gruou...

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...or healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, reli- gious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feelin... ... advance. There was one waiter in especial who was the most ac- complished social being I have ever encountered; from morning till night he kept up an... ...nd of those pleasures which proceed from the presence of women in whom the social art is both instinctive and acquired. The women of that period were,... ...ter of his own. This trifling incident reminded me afresh that France is a democratic country. I think I received an admonition to the same effect fro... .... In the year 436, Theodoric, King of the Visigoths, superseded both these parties; and it is during his occupation that the inner enceinte was raised... ...n all the others. It reminded me, as one is reminded at every turn, of the democratic con- ditions of French life: a man of the people, with a wife en...

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... no impression of incompleteness, of maimed or stinted nature. And yet, in social intercourse, these familiar friends of his habitually and instinctiv... ...ts forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches near parties that come into the catacomb, especially if they be heretics, hoping... ..., in spite of all these professional grudges, art- ists are conscious of a social warmth from each other’s pres- ence and contiguity. They shiver at t... ...y of the Palace of the Caesars on the other, there arose singing voices of parties that were stroll- ing through the moonlight. Thus, the air was full... ...emperor is enough to create an eva- nescent sentiment of loyalty even in a democratic bosom, so august does he look, so fit to rule, so worthy of man’... ...e sufficed to people with human life so large an abode as this, and impart social warmth to such a wide world within doors. The sculptor confessed to ...

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...ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly ter... ...s kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had an... ... them—and duelled them dead without wink- ing; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes—looki... ...shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dig- nity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Hi... ...ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Y ... ...ce of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Thou... ...e interruptions now and then, a conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at intervals not without still another interruption of a very ...