Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book suffers a little from a trait noticeable in some other writings of this author an irrepressible fondness for paradox. Perhaps it is necessary nowadays to talk about Shakspere paradoxically, if one expects to receive any attention; but paradox too often passes for originality...
...possible that something of value can be learned from the other side of the shield, namely, the idea that with the first loss of innocence came the first step in the rise of man. As will be seen, this statement does not involve a paradox...
After all, then, the text is not a mere rhetorical paradox, though its maxim is even now regarded as a distant ideal, impracticable at present. Even in the church the largest purse secures the best pew. Not many years ago John Ruskin spoke in bitter words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible...
This passage is an apparent paradox. Yet on further consideration the difficulty disappears. By means of light, objects about us form images on the retinas of our eyes and we see these images, not the objects themselves. All things are taken by themselves invisible. Seeing, then, has in it an element of faith...
...interest which formerly centered in our meetings alone. At the same time, while our meetings are suffering, our athletes take part in these many outside contests, and gain such good training that our athletics in general do not suffer. Such seems to be the real explanation of the apparent paradox of a failing interest in the winter meetings and an increased success in athletics...