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...aspired to flight in the air ever since he was created. In pagan mythology it was left to the gods to sail through space, and their soaring was looked upon with awe. Later the Valkyrie took up the fashion where Mercury left off, and still the people looked on it with awe. Finally Leonardo da Vinci, a mortal, decided that men could fly as well as gods and birds. To his endeavors people turned a deaf ear and a superstitious frame of mind, alternately calling him god and devil. He was classed with the witches and their broomstick flying machines...
...total abolition of opium because British merchants held such a large stock of it already in store in Shanghai which must first be disposed of before the abolition should become effective, otherwise they would lose the several million dollars involved, and the action of the Chinese government, a pagan government if you will, who replied, "Very well then, we will buy the opium en bloc from you and burn it." Which they...
...Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from constant paint in drugs, limned the pagan folk of "Bloody Hiva-oa" for all the world, and lies now in an unknown grave overlooking the Bay of Atuona...
...Morelli was admirable, but its rendition by Helen Ware was supreme. It is the height of acting when a personality crosses the footlights. Miss Ware not only achieved this, but achieved it with a grace and poise which have seldom been equalled. Who would not be a "Pagan...
...Cambridge, and subsequently studied medicine. He has been at Oxford for many years. During the war he served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The books which he has written include "introduction to Social Psychology," published in 1908: "Body and Mind," published in 1911; and "Pagan Tribes of Borneo," published in 1912. The first two are especially well-known among psychologists in this country...