Word: brooding
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Professor James gets at the heart of his theme by an imaginary reasoning with a fellow-mortal who is on such terms with life that the only comfort left him is to brood on the assurance "you may end it when you will." Ordinary Christians reasoning with would-be suicides, have little to offer them beyond the usual negative "thou shalt not." Professor James goes on to show the means whereby the suicide may actually be made to see that in spite of adverse circumstances life is worth living still; and his final appeal is to nothing more recondite than...
...Under a brood bank / By a burnie's side
...from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness was changed into dissatisfaction, a dissatisfaction which caused them continually to brood over their wrongs, having no work to occupy their time. And history tells us what happens when idle people brood over their wrongs-uprisings and out-breaks are inevitable...
...Paris has her seamy side! The grand boulevards, the stately buildings, the culture, fashion, wealth, gaiety, are what we usually see. But in the old quarters of the city are dark, crooked streets and dens of shamelessness and crime. There are quarters over which Ignorance and Vice brood like an eternal nightmare. Stunted and distorted human beings grovel in congenial ignominy; children are born in this pestilential atmosphere, are born and grow up, are asphyxiated, and die; and the filthy wheel of the city's life turns round and round. And whither does the human offal from these noisome streets...
...attractive in a cover of some delicate shade pleasing to the eye. It seems strange that with so many fine arts' students our fortnightly should be behind those of other colleges in this respect. Its appearance in a new cover would make an important addition to the newly fledged brood of artistic-looking papers...