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...which came, appropriately, while the by then viscount was reading Gibbon-is circumstantial to a fault. The book bristles with references to "new sources" of information, as well as a full quota of those "we can fairly assumes" peculiar to Victorian biography. It comes fully provided, too, with an index, footnotes, useful explanatory charts of naval engagements, appendices, tables of consanguinity, illustration showing various Hornblower residences and a bibliography of books on Sir Horatio, all, as it happens, written by an author named C.S. Forester. Parkinson even reproduces a marriage notice from the Naval Gazette...
Just to dip my index finger...
...Fallings" is necessary because there are many different kinds of falling in love. Love, like most other terms, has many different meanings; hence Korzybski taught that mentally at least, one ought to "index" words, so that love1 might stand for love of God, love2 for love of country, love3 for love between men and women, etc. The bracketed "to me" indicates that love is not equally wonderful to everybody, and the "great many ways" recognizes that virtually nothing in the world happens "in every way." All this may seem obvious. Nevertheless it contains a significant relativist philosophy and much wisdom...
...consensus grows from arithmetic. Since 1960, the costs of health care have climbed by more than 50%, far outstripping even the 31% rise in the consumer price index. Physicians' fees alone have risen by 58%, while hospitalization, which averaged $35 a day ten years ago, has more than doubled in price and now stands...
...America is more spectator-than participant-oriented." Though he allows that competition is necessary to develop talent, he emphasizes that "the process of sport is more important than the product. The beauty is in the classic struggle of man against man, man against nature and man against himself. The index of how well you do is how well you struggle. If you don't struggle well, you should feel badly. But you shouldn't feel badly just because you lose. The final score should be almost incidental...