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...most likely to strengthen him in his fray with the thing he has built. A fair contention is that these lie with in the realms of the spirit. Whether the dreams of philosophy or the vapors of mysticism or the rigors of a revealed religion or even the flickering flare of a poet's fancy lead him on, he must at last seek refreshment and reincarnation in the world of a Jesus, a Plato, a Shakespere and a Dante, a world which Bertrand Russell describes as just beyond the cavern of despair where Self must die, out "where the Gate...
Against the flare he had just set off stood the aviator immobile as a statue, while the landscape, leaping out of shadow at the summons of his fantastic torch, assumed around him an aspect of exaggerated horror; water-rotted trees at the river's edge stretched their arms in stiff attitudes of torment, like ghouls petrified in the death-agony; the motionless grain at his feet seemed to have been cemented, by the mist and the strange light, into an acre of solid stone. As he peered under his hand, trying in vain to see beyond the circle his flare...
...flare guttered, went...
...Vadunt? Is the present sporadic outburst of nationalism going to sweep all China into a ferment against the foreigners? Or is it going to die down to flare up again in the future? It is unlikely, if not impossible, for the Chinese to undertake any concerted action against the foreigners. This is because the Chinese are themselves too much divided. But it is almost a certainty that nationalism as a force will live to show its talons another day and there can be no doubt that some time the nationalists will...
...first interest, my dear Usbek, was attracted to a group, or tribe, of Satellities which I was told contained the most advanced thinkers to be found in this Universe-city. These choice souls call themselves the Why-nots and hold their meetings in a barn amidst the red flare of torches. Thither I went with great hopes, and witnessed the most extraordinary manifestations of advanced thought. By special invitation, Jaipurdhi, the Indian fakir most noted for his piety and fifth, had come to address them upon the fundamental necessity of discarding all clothing for complete self-expression. With great enthusiasm...