Word: puissant
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...events. For better or for worse, Turkey became a republic, a midget of a state compared to its former self; all the old panoplies of government were thrown overboard. The Sultan-Calif fled for his life. A new Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate, the holy office of the Successor to the Prophet. No wonder there was turmoil in Islam...
...world so basely consecrated to the truth, Fiction (which is the art of lying) is still at least a semi-honorable profession. It is, because it makes a puissant defense, saying: "I make a hero, and my reader imagines all my hero's virtues to himself. I make a villain and my reader estimates that he himself will avoid the deeds and dooms of villainy." And there's the kernel of the cabbage: the reader dreams himself the man whom all the story turns about. There is the power and the pleasure of the lies that we call Fiction...