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...leading wrestlers (as prestigious in Japan as bullfighters in Spain) staged a public match for her favors, she came to the attention of the Prime Minister, Taro Katsura, and became his mistress. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. O-Koi had a place in Katsura's inmost councils without betraying a single confidence...
What the City really wants to take from him is his inmost self, his individual reality. The struggle is conducted in quasi-metaphysical colloquies through Dr. Bab-itch, "an impersonal emanation of a depersonalized office which in turn stems from another office, and so on, in concentric circles, up to the very ectoplasm, the super-Babitch." What Pierre means by "being no one." i.e., belonging to the City, is what Babitch means by "being." He tries to make Pierre accept the proposition, "I crawl, therefore I am." Against all pressure, Pierre resists, for he knows that to agree...
...frankly renounced Christianity: "If 'we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, by faith and not for our own works or deservings' (Christianity), then it cannot possibly be true that the All-Seeing Eye 'pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart and will reward us according to our merits' (Masonry). One of these declarations excludes the other...
...Patton believed in God . . . [His] style was rough, but he combined idealism and realism. He talked to God as if he admired Him. He let God into his inmost secret heart, and recognized his own human frailty...
...Freedom. The key word in Santayana's interpretation of immortality is "self-transcendence." Says he: "There is nothing more human or more satisfying than self-transcendence; and the liberation and light that come of renouncing the will seem, when really attained, the fulfillment, not the surrender, of our inmost powers...