Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never met in the course of my travels in America with the circumstances shown in American films as indicative of social life. It is a fact that, in almost savage countries, American films which are supposed to represent American social life are used in the most evil way by Bolsheviks and other propagandists. I found this true even in India, where I have heard it said in the bazaars: 'Is this the way the sahibs live when they are at home...
...galloped for brandy, Lou felt that the earth was flooded with evil, the positive evil that reins mankind to earth, keeping an unruptured surface over mankind's internal hemorrhage. As soon as possible, she went away with her mother and St. Mawr. Rico wanted St. Mawr shot or castrated, but Lou got him away to Texas-where he shed his deity on the wide, empty plains and made advances to a tall Texas mare...
...Significance. Author Lawrence looks into life as a mystical physiologist. He would lead men back through the wombs of the ages to the birthday of the species, lest they forget the elements of their nature. For him, good and evil lie far underneath manners and exist only where the primal passions are pure or emasculate. St. Mawr, the burning bay stallion, incarnates the Lawrentian purity as has no other creature...
...might be expressed thus--"You shall be free from illness in body or aberration in mind", and of those the second is the more important to the man himself, and of by far the greater moment to the rest of the world. If to err in thought is an evil, and to escape it a benefit to oneself and others, there is also a duty to keep one's mind from error and to think aright...
...above others with the means of forming opinions by ascertaining the facts on which they should be based, and by considering them from an abstract, and hence a detached, point of view. Such men are in a real sense the watchmen of the people, for if they see the evil coming and give not warning, the blood of the people who suffer should be required at their hand: and not less should it be required when they have failed to see it after receiving the privilege of education that should have given them the power of seeing...