She who knows only her own side of the case knows little of that. Her reasons may be food, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if she is equally unable to refute the reasons of the opposite side; i
This is an instinct for which there is,I think, little original sympathy in the practical English nature,and what there was of it has undergone a long benumbing period of blight and suppression in the epoch of Romanticism. It is of the last importance that English criticism should clearly di...
Mr. Houghton was given to high-minded monologues about the good life, sexless and full of duty. Yet in the middle of one of these monologues, if a girl passed the window, tapping along on her neat little feet, he would interrupt his discourse, his neck would turn of itself and he wou...
however, that what we think of as being a physical particle, is a disturbance in a field of energy. But scientists don’t even know what the field actually looks
You can easily become positive by resolving to note everything as a blessing, as beautiful and to be thankful for.You can be thankful for the fork and spoon you are washing in the sink. Make it a lifestyle change and you will be glad you did so because each little positive thought and...
Thus, you should think there are infinite people. This doesn’t stop at the smallest infinity—you should think the number of people that exist is the most that there could be. That’s a really huge number. Theism can nicely explain why that number of people exists, but atheism has no ...
So far, there has been little sign of this happening any time soon; as Prospect editor-in-chief Tom Clark has observed of most Western governments, “out-dated frameworks still inform policy prescriptions”. In fact, searching for alternative solutions may partly explain why there’s been a re...
For instance, in Lewiston, Maine, residents initially felt that their little town would be overwhelmed by the sudden arrival of resettled Somali refugees in 2001. The municipality, however, engaged in ‘dispelling myths about them and explaining the circumstances that prompted their move to the ...
Much has grown from that sketch. There are now thousands of Twitter applications, precisely because the core Twitter service does so little. By thinking simple, Twitter allowed its users and an ecosystem of application developers to evolve new features and functionality. This is the essence of ...
Hammond wrote that ‘the name “Empire” is charged with associations for which Liberals have little liking, and they would prefer to apply the term “Commonwealth” to the confederacy of States which makes up the dominions of the Crown’.Footnote18 This international usage could, then, be ...