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ACIS ADAM ancients ARCHBISHOP ARJILLAX Baghdad BARNABAS believe better BURGE-LUBIN CAIN cant century child Church Circumstantial Selection civilization CONFUCIUS CONRAD Creative Evolution Daddy Darwin dead dear death doesnt dolls earth ECRASIA ELDERLY GENTLEMAN ENVOY eyes face feel FEMALE FIGURE fool FRANKLYN garden Garden of Eden habits hands happen HASLAM head human invented Joyce Burge kill Lamarck laughing legend Lilith listen live three hundred look LUBIN LUTESTRING madam MAIDEN MALE FIGURE MARTELLUS matter mean mind NAPOLEON natural NEGRESS Neo-Darwinians Neo-Darwinism never NEWLY BORN oracle PARLOR MAID party play political President PYGMALION religion rising SAVVY SERPENT SHE-ANCIENT shew shortlived sits Sixty-six games snake STREPHON talk tell temple things thought tion truth Turania turn understand Vitalist Voice wife woman word wouldnt young YOUTH ZOZIM
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Page 236 - I am older than this boy here : older than he thinks. How did you find that out ? THE ANCIENT. Easily enough. You are ceasing to pretend that these childish games — this dancing and singing and mating — do not become tiresome and unsatisfying after a while. And you no longer care to pretend that you are younger than you are. These are the signs of adolescence. And then, see these fantastic rags with which you have draped yourself. [He takes up a piece of her draperies in his hand] . It is rather...
Page 6 - Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?
Page 31 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page xli - Now it is not too much to say that if an optician wanted, to sell me an instrument which had all these defects, I should think myself quite justified in blaming his carelessness in the strongest terms, and giving him back his instrument.
Page lxxiii - Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer.
Page 298 - ... also am curious ; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow. Let them feed that appetite well for me. I say, let them dread, of all things, stagnation ; for from the moment I, Lilith, lose hope and faith in them, they are doomed. In that hope and faith I have let them live for ^ moment ; and in that moment I have spared them many times.
Page 228 - THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. They have gone back to lie about your answer. I cannot go with them. I cannot live among people to whom nothing is real. I have become incapable of it through my stay here. I implore to be allowed to stay.
Page 288 - THE SHE-ANCIENT. But still I am the slave of this slave, my body. How am I to be delivered from it? THE HE-ANCIENT. That, children, is the trouble of the ancients. For whilst we are tied to this tyrannous body we are subject to its death, and our destiny is not achieved. THE NEWLY BORN. What is your destiny? THE HE-ANCIENT. To be immortal. THE SHE-ANCIENT. The day will come when there will be no people, only thought.
Page xiii - It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true: what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it...
Page lii - We were intellectually intoxicated with the idea that the world could make itself without design, purpose, skill, or intelligence: in short, without life. We completely overlooked the difference between the modification of species by adaptation to their environment and the appearance of new species: we just threw in the word "variations...