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Essays in Fury

Arthur D. Lewis

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Essays in Fury

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... far beyond the Jew, and the Jew no longer looks down so much on the ignorant Christian; the Mohammedan finds that some Christians have many virtues; and the Buddhist learns that the king who went out from a palace and forsook all in order to find the cure for illness and for old age and death and miserable beggary-was not the only man whom we may well admire; and all of them may come to see that it is not better to believe than to allow people to dare to think. Too often as with our patriotism, so with our religion:--"Turks deride us, we them; Italians Frenchmen, accounting them light-headed fellows; the French scoff again at Italians, and at their several customs; Greeks have condemned all the world but themselves of barbarism, the world as much vilifies them now; we account Germans heavy, dull fellows, explode many of their fashions; they as contemptibly think of us; Spaniards laugh at all, and all again at them. So are we fools and ridiculous, absurd in our actions, carriages, diet, apparel, customs, and consultations; we scoff and point at one another, when as in conclusion all are fools, 'and they the veriest asses that hide their ears most.' A private man if he be resolved with himself, or set on an opinion, accounts all idiots and asses that are not affected as he is--nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducit, that are not so minded (quodgue volunt homines se bene velle putant) all fools that think not as he doth: he will not say with Atticus, suam quisque sponsam, mihi meam, let every man enjoy his own spouse; but his alone is fair, suus amor, etc., and scorns all in respect of himself, will imitate none, hear none but himself, as Pliny said, a law and example to himself." Note On Reasonable Symbolism And The Breaking Of A Glass At Weddings Those wh...

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Udgivet 19. marts 2009
ISBN13 9781103667307
Forlag BiblioLife
Antal sider 264
Mål 230 × 16 × 153 mm   ·   544 g
Sprog Engelsk