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...rved him in the glass over the mantelpiece. “I daresay you have the social revolutionary jargon by heart well enough,” he said contemptuously. “V ox e... ...n, I suppose.” “Or Chinese,” added Mr V erloc stolidly. “H’m. Some of your revolutionary friends’ effusions are writ- ten in a charabia every bit as i... ...e of the arm-chair, “not anarchist in principle, but open to all shades of revolutionary opinion.” 20 The Secret Agent “Are you in it?” “One of the V... ...Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as t... ...n the statue of one of his own princely ancestors stripped of a crusader’s war harness, and put into an ill-fitting frock coat. The Assistant Commissi...

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... people,” ran his notes, “I was astonished at the reported feats of men in war; I believed they were exaggerated, and that there was a kind of unpre- ... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ... These were the days when the strain and extremity of a dangerous colonial war were fresh in people’s minds, when the quality of the public consciousn... ... to unanticipated demands. The conflict of stupidities that had caused the war was overlaid and forgot- ten by a hundred thousand devotions, by countl... ...and in- volved himself more and more in the endless tangled threads of the revolutionary movement in Russia, Prothero was lost to all those large issu... ...is or that part of 247 H G Wells the world. He began in Russia during the revolutionary trouble of 1906, he went thence to Odessa, and from place to ...

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...e was fairly launched. “It’s the blind folly of it! In the days before the war it was different. Then there was abundance. A little grabbing or corner... ...back of all sorts of mental trouble. It is a new state of mind. Before the war it was abnormal—a phase of neur- asthenia. Now it is almost the normal ... ...s. Well, our surroundings have become—how shall I put it?—a landslide. The war which seemed such a defin- 10 The Secret Places of the Heart able cata... ...speculation is one of those things that must be di- vorced absolutely from revolutionary conduct. It was to the neglect of these obvious principles, a... ... that rising in- tonation of humorous conclusion which is so distinctively American, “those Druids have got him.” “He’s hiding,” said the automobilist... ...he cheek bones, that faint flavour of the Amerindian, one sees at times in American women. Her voice was a very soft and pleasing voice, and she spoke... ... pleasing voice, and she spoke persuasively and not assertively as so many American women do. Her de- termination to make the dry bones of Stonehenge ...

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...d* miles— *“Three hundred”:—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascr... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ... had suffered some deep personal affliction in connexion with this Spanish war. Here, now, was the case of one who, having formerly suf- fered, might,... ...umulation of foreign mails this night, ow- ing to irregularities caused by war, by wind, by weather, in the packet service, which as yet does not bene... ...—that, having hid His face through one generation be- hind thick clouds of War, once again was ascending, from the Campo Santo of Waterloo was ascendi... ...ced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but in all senses; mad... ...is- tocrats in the streets, &c., and the burden of one of the most popular revolutionary songs, ‘Ça ira, ça ira, ça ira.’”— MASSON. 8 18 ALL MORALITY,...

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................................................ 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ......................................................................... ...ing Galleries; Prussian Brunswick, ‘over a space of forty miles,’ with his war-tumbrils, and sleeping thun- ders, and Briarean ‘sixty-six thousand’ (S... ...winds: and, in brief, for years coming, such a suite of scenes as glorious war has not offered in these late ages, not since our Albigenses and Crusad... ...nly ‘thirty voices.’ All these; and along with them, friends long known to Revolutionary fame: Camille Desmoulins, though he stutters in speech; Manue... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...e, those Comites Revolutionnaires for the arrestment of Persons Sus- pect. Revolutionary Committee, of Twelve chosen Patriots, sits in every Township ... ... Salvation,’ whereat the world still shrieks and shudders. If we call that Revolutionary Tribunal a Sword, which Sansculottism has provided for itself...

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...following eyes on board those ships—Dutch, English, with a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’cl... ...ucky, perhaps, in the placing of her masts - who knows? Officers of men-of-war used to come on board to take the exact dimensions of her sail- plan. P... ...and South Winds are but small princes in the dynasties that make peace and war upon the sea. They never assert themselves upon a 70 The Mirror of the... ...ye of an impla- cable autocrat out of a pale and frightened sky. He is the war-lord who sends his battalions of At- lantic rollers to the assault of o... ...ch glory to be reaped as in the deeds of arms. One of them disorganized by revolutionary changes, the other rusted in the neglect of a decayed monarch...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food. Though Juanita Haydock was ... ...o—lived 181 Sinclair Lewis seven miles out. He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right ... ...Kankakee. It was the first time that any one in Gopher Prairie had been so revolutionary as to use enclosed scenes with continuous side-walls. The roo... ... of virtuousness, and the procession of Decoration Day, when the few Civil War veterans followed Champ Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the sprin...

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...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ..., like one possessed by a demon. Most evidently, he was a wretched man, at war with his own soul, and with all the world around him. To be overheard b... ...he subject of Catholic Emancipation, Lord Chatham’s speech on the American war, and speeches by the great William Pitt and by Fox. These were all choi... ...ves. These meetings must have resembled, on a small scale, the meetings of revolutionary conspirators, in their primary con- dition. We were plotting ... ...bject. Mr. Gardiner was, that season, engaged in building two large man-of-war vessels, professedly for the Mexican government. These vessels were to ...

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...It. Encourages them to forget duties and set up preposterous claims. Class war and all that sort of thing. You gentlemen of the clergy don’t quite rea... ...lism may begin with Ruskin and end with Karl Marx. And that from the Class War to the Commune is just one step.” 5 5 5 5 5 From this conversation the ... ...ders. Through the swiftest, tensest week in history Europe cap- sized into war. 6 6 6 6 6 The first effect of the war upon the mind of the bishop, as ... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...hall we eva, do ‘ou think, have a new ‘iligion—t’ua and betta?” That was a revolutionary idea to him. He was still fending it off from him when a gap ... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur...

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...the whole she preferred these two classes of the human race. Since the Civil War much of her occupation was gone; for before that her best hours had b... ...herself. There was a lithographic smoothness about her, and a mixture of the American matron and the public character. There was something public in h... ...and helpless miseries grow greater all the while? I am only a girl, a simple American girl, and of course I haven’t seen much, and there is a great de... ... an idea that in leaving them simply planted face to face (the terror of the American heart) she had so high a warrant; and presently Basil Ransom fel... ...d? It is well known that the Empress of France was at the bottom of the last war in that country. And as for our four fearful years of slaughter, of c... ...ned last night?—Eliza P. Moseley. I regard Eliza as the cause of the biggest war of which history preserves the record.’ Basil Ransom enjoyed his humo... ...them. Symphonies and fugues only stimulated their convictions, excited their revolutionary passion, led their imagination further in the direction in ... ... made. You look as if you didn’t believe me—but I assure you that the cut is revolutionary; and that’s a salve to Olive’s conscience.’ Ransom was surp...

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...ally have his atten- tion arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of- war’s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certa... ...s some of which you see poking their noses out of the port-holes of yonder war-ship lying-to for me,” pointing thro’ the cabin window at the Indomitab... ...teau!- My man,” stepping out to him, “you can’t take that big box aboard a war-ship. The boxes there are mostly shot-boxes. Put your duds in a bag, la... ..., Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi- rals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with their wooden walls. Neverthe... ...ve no barrier against the ultimate schemes of this French upstart from the revolutionary chaos who seemed in act of fulfilling judgement prefigured in...

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...ere are’na you setting up to judge? And have ye no forgot God’s plain command – the First with Promise, dear? Mind you upon the beam and the mote!” Ha... ...inary raid of yours!” ob- served this courageous member, taking him confidentially by the arm as they went out. “I don’t think it a raid,” said Archie... ...self, among trembling servants, and in a house which (at the least ruffle in the master’s voice) shuddered into si- lence, he saw himself on the brink... ...heels of admira- tion. The laird, Clem, and Dand, who were Tories and pa- triots of the hottest quality, excused to themselves, with a certain bashful... ...Kirstie, ye have shaved it this time, my lass?” said Clem. “Whaur were ye?” “O, just taking a dander by mysel’,” said Kirstie. And the talk continued ...

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...ay here be allowed to point out the depraving effect of the necessities of war upon certain minds who venture to act in domestic life as if upon the f... ...e ministers who succeeded each other in that office. She put Bridau on the war-path to save her grocer. That incorruptible official—one of the virtuou... ...yenne Duplay would have saved Descoings. This little mishap proves that in revolutionary times it is quite as dangerous to employ honest men as scound... ...d ear- nest a mortal enmity to the Bourbons, never reported himself at the War department, and even refused opportunities which were offered to him fo... ...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...gious ceremonies; where marriage was nothing more than legal coupling, and revolutionary max- ims left a deep impression. This was markedly the case a...

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...Monarchies. These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures; and it is upon their war- rant that men have supposed no fifth monarchy or uni- versal empire po... ...idable as thyself;—thou, Rome! didst now for the first time behold a civil war issuing in a hallowed prosperity, a soldiery appeased, recov- ered Ital... ...rty established. Now first in thy long annals thou didst rest from a civil war in such a peace, that righ- teously, and with maternal tenderness, thou... ... made on the characteristic distinction of Cæsar, in comparison with other revolutionary disturbers; for, whereas others had attempted the overthrow o... ...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin... ...en—to represent these debts as the original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects, as though the desperate condition of his private af... ...their very first origin purely ministe- rial to his ambition; and that his revolutionary plans were at all periods of his life a direct and foremost o...

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...ost we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in f... ...ry. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our Civil War, so that one should not hesitate in choosing! Such puzzles are never, h... ...parrot repeating a line from some Lancastrian pamphlet. He really disliked war and the sword; and scorn- ing the prospect of an idle life, confessing ... ...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...champ’s behalf, and had dimly seen that a woman can feel insurgent, almost revolutionary, for a personal cause, T ory though her instinct of safety an... ...ed her beautiful: whither was she hurrying? Forgetful of her horror of his revolutionary ideas, forgetful of the el- evation of her own, she thrilled ... ...versive, intolerant, immoral, and the rest! all that comes under your word revolutionary.’ ‘Possibly; but I must defend myself from hearing what I kno...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...s repre- sented to me as a French Countess, forced to emigrate in the late revolutionary horrors; but who, as I have since found, was a person of the ... ...s well as the particulars of the night’s conver- sation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy an...

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... savage plun- derer of a besieged town up to the reckless monarch mak- ing war to feed his own ambition. There is a courage that breaks out in bravado... ...ely devoted to the holy work of softening the after sufferings that render war so hideous; whose very step and shadow car- ried gladness and healing t... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...eek peace and ensue it.’ With such strains as these, sung to his harp, the war- 17 Yo n g e rior gained the hearts of his men to enthusiastic love, a... ...haracter, and was finally swept from Malta in the general confusion of the Revolutionary wars. The British crosses now float in the harbour of Malta; ... ...ddler named Cathelineau, and they drove back the Blues, as they called the revolutionary soldiers, who had come to enforce the conscription. They begg... ...lied round the white stan- dard, as determined as ever not to yield to the Revolutionary 258 A Book of Golden Deeds government; and the beginning of ...

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...ike a frightened dog, while hunger walks the streets? Hunger is the master revolutionary. When he comes we ought to turn out and salute him. Anyway, I... ...ing to say to me, “Dear, I know it’s hard—but revolt is harder. Don’t make war on it, dear—don’t! Don’t do anything to offend it. I’m sure it will hur... ...ittle gramophone… . It is only on Monday I find, and buried deep below the war news, that these publications contain any intimation that unusual happe... ...der interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irrational phenomena of the former time, war was ...

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...ly to translate upon the church the present power of patrons—that were too revolutionary, that would have exposed its own object. For the present, the... ...Here, then, suddenly emerged a perfect ratification for their own previous revolutionary doctrine upon the creation of parish clergymen. This new scru... ...ection of the sixteenth century. But, doubt- less, the main reason was the revolutionary character of the times. Morality is at all periods fearfully ... ...testine wars, and by instability in a government. The actual dura- tion of war in England was not indeed longer than three and a half years, viz., fro... ...er fighting in that century belonged to mere insulated and discontinu- ous war. But the insecurity of every government between 1638 and 1702, kept the... ...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...ugh tending to the instant disorganization of society. T o lecture against war, and against taxes as directly supporting war, would wear a most color-... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

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... Cooper and Mayne Reid and illustrated histories; one of the Russo-Turkish war and one of Napier’s expedi- tion to Abyssinia I read from end to end; S... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...aneously developed institu- tions. In a century, by its very success, this revolutionary innovation of Renascence public schools had become an immense... ...tion of regular evening prepara- tion for the lower boys in Big Hall as a “revolutionary change,” but he achieved it, and he declared he began the rep... ... admission for us both to the spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. We developed a war game of our own at Britten’s ho... ...y. Hatherleigh tried hard to saddle the Semitic race with the less elegant war customs of the Soudan and the northwest frontier of India, and quoted D... ...ge-muscled, black-haired toiler swaggering sledgeham- mer in hand across a revolutionary barricade, seemed the quintessence of what he had to expound.... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain....