Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch 'those funny Scotchmen' with amused superiority;... when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with 'such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Colisæum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which, like a mighty gladiator..., combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around the cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drove them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of us don't have the option of quitting work, even if our care situation drove us to consider it in desperation. . . . It's h...aving no choice but to beat the bushes, having no choice but to "settle" on someone or some institution, having no choice but to hand over our child and hope for the best (or, at least, hope to avoid the worst) that gnaws away at even the most unflappable among us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just before reaching the lighthouse, we saw the sun set in the Bay,--for standing on that narrow cape was, as I have said, like be...ing on the deck of a vessel, or rather at the masthead of a man-of-war, thirty miles at sea, though we knew that at the same moment the sun was setting behind our native hills, which were just below the horizon in that direction. This sight drove everything else quite out of our heads, and Homer and the Ocean came in again with a rush,-- Ev d' epes' Okeanoi lampron phaos eelioio, the shining torch of the sun fell into the ocean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for hom...e at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain,... And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and... glimpses of that long life of our ancestors which still goes on among so many of our contemporaries. Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race. To shut one's self away from that half of the race life is to shut one's self away from the most vital part of it; it is to live out but half the humanity to which we have been born heir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, wome...n are beginning to rise in response to the Mother's call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »